Publix Where working can be lethal Five workers have died in Publix’s Deerfield Beach warehouse in the past eight years. Has the workplace gotten safer? Apparently not.By Harris Meyer Thanks For the Nomination, HerbertWow! The article on Publix is a Pulitzer; that was great reading (“Publix: Where Working Can Be…
We often wonder how so many underqualified people attain power in government. This week we have two wonderful examples to ponder. So Gov. Jeb Bush scanned the entirety of Broward County to find just the right person to fill the important and lucrative position of clerk of the courts. And…
Amy King shuffles into the Gold Coast roller rink garbed as an elf. Her back curves gently like a lowercase r, and she uses a rubber-tipped cane to maneuver her steady path from the entranceway’s turnstile to the rows of booths that rest rinkside. She knows where she’s going. Amy’s…
Ron Gunzburger has in his hands a smoldering news tip. The editor, publisher, and sole writer of the Politics1.com Website recently learned that a long-time conservative Republican U.S. congressman is rumored to be retiring from the House of Representatives for fear of being outed as a homosexual. Not exactly the…
We are charging Publix with thievery. And we’re calling for a Publix execution. As soon as our story came out last week on the deaths of five of the company’s employees at the Deerfield Beach warehouse, a current employee of Publix, apparently under orders from a store manager, stole our…
No Exit In South Florida the new killing fields are filled with sick, depressed senior citizens who make self-inflicted death their final ally By Bob Norman Breaking the Assisted-Suicide Media EmbargoThe article titled “No Exit” (Bob Norman, January 20) dealt with an important subject, one that will probably become more…
Call it Dania Beachhead. For the first time in 30 years, residents of the county’s oldest town say they’ve established a solid position in the battle to halt a drug problem that dominates west-side black neighborhoods. Money from drug sales permeates everything in the ten-square-block area west of Federal Highway…
The Sweet Head II’s final resting place is in the Lake Worth lagoon. After six decades of service, the 48-foot motorboat of indeterminate make or model is submerged in water and lies perhaps 50 feet from the public beach at Phil Foster Park in Riviera Beach. The Sweet Head II’s…
The pasty-white young man had come to the beach to bask in the warm sunshine, inhale the balmy ocean breezes, and soak in the salt water at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. He certainly didn’t plan on gulping seawater and nearly drowning that Sunday afternoon. The beach was crowded with locals and tourists; we’re…
No Exit In South Florida the new killing fields are filled with sick, depressed senior citizens who make self-inflicted death their final ally By Bob Norman Assisted-Suicide ClubEnjoyed the article “No Exit” (Bob Norman, January 20). Bravo! You are the only one talking about this. For your information (and I…
It was just before nine in the morning on September 24, 1998, and Louis Gallart had a lot on his mind as he unloaded truck trailers on the dock of the Publix Supermarkets distribution warehouse in Deerfield Beach. He was concerned about getting home before Hurricane Georges hit. That wasn’t…
After four days of looping around the Caribbean, the Carnival Cruise Lines ship Fascination eased into its berth at Port Canaveral, Florida, on the morning of July 23, 1998. Legions of flushed, sunburned tourists descended the gangplank, luxuriating, no doubt, in the last few hours of their tropical escape before…
The night her life began to unravel, Linda Ashby was a confident female law-enforcement officer only five months into a career as a uniformed deputy with the Broward Sheriff’s Office. Her confidence had merit: Ashby had been commended for bravery on the job after excelling at the police academy. She…
Something wasn’t right in the Winn-Dixie store in Dania Beach that day. Anger was building among store employees under the supermarket’s white fluorescent lights. The animosity would soon turn to violence, with a customer’s blood spilling on the hard, shiny tile near the checkout counter. The unlikely cause of the…
OK, everyone who is sick of the daily news media’s coverage of the Elian “crisis,” please raise your hand. Now, how many of you have noticed that the Hispanic writers and television reporters covering the story ad nauseam have shown a bias toward the family and against the father and…
Suicide Is BlamelessThank you for the thoughtful, thorough, and sensitive article on elderly suicide in the January 20 issue of New Times (“No Exit,” Bob Norman). Your effort should assist in bringing this issue to the forefront, and I would hope that medical personnel, the clergy, politicians, and the general…
When Bill Bucknam pulled into the parking lot of Bill Scherer’s law firm one Friday morning, he was alarmed to see two people sitting some distance away in a car that had been backed into place. The car’s two female occupants were trying to maintain low profiles. As he walked,…
Rory McMahon grew up in the classic law-and-order family. His father hit for the cycle in crime-fighting in New York, serving in his long career as a prosecutor, a police commissioner, a sheriff, and finally a judge. A picture of longtime FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover hung in the den…
Two words of advice for anyone planning to purchase a boat in the Venice of America: Caveat emptor. You could run into the likes of yacht broker Antonio Aguiar. By all accounts Aguiar is the kind of salesman who could talk an Eskimo into buying an air conditioner. He’s a…
Vitamin king Carl DeSantis won kudos recently for donating $2 million to Nova Southeastern University for a new building to house its graduate business school. “It’s very important to us to have… people of this stature and respect signing on to our school,” Randolph Pohlman, dean of the business school,…
Night of the Living HeadsWhat’s it like to ring in the new millennium with 80,000 drug-addled Phish fans? Expensive. Noisy. Crowded. Uninspiring.By Bob Whitby, January 13, 2000 Rage Against the Phish Machine Mark Koenig via the InternetI just wanted to compliment you on your article regarding the Phish concert for…
Hyman Kantofsky knew he was going to die. At 84 years old, the Deerfield Beach retiree was already in the advanced stages of pancreatic cancer and getting sicker every day. Kantofsky knew about the tolls of a prolonged death — he’d cared for his own dying mother and father –…
