The slugging match between Palm Beach County and Westgate Tabernacle in West Palm is nearly a decade old, but the two sides keep trading punches, including a flurry this past week. Will taking Westgate Tabernacle’s Dumpster be the knockout blow?For a primer on the two combatants, check out the video…
National economies present some of the most complex problems in the world. At this very moment, some of the globe’s most eminent minds are debating how to pull mankind out of its recent economic torpor. And yet somehow, those Nobel Prize-winning economists can’t see what’s perfectly obvious to Florida Sen…
A self-proclaimed “Tea Party activist” from Coral Springs filed three complaints again Ron Saunders of Key West, the House Democratic leader, yesterday. James K. Barnes, a salesman by trade, alleges Saunders violated the public trust by “double dipping” on travel and per diem expenses and by violating campaign finance rules.”Rep…
Hark! Be that the ghost of Sen. Henry Clay, former champion of the Whig Party? The Great Compromiser was a fierce opponent of Andrew Jackson and is credited with creating the Whigs, a party that vanished around 1856, shortly after Clay’s death; but it’s being revived in Florida because, why…
When Terry Verner was director of code enforcement for Palm Beach County, he led the charge to shut down the homeless services at Westgate Tabernacle on Suwanna Drive in West Palm Beach. Now a man claiming to be Verner’s former brother-in-law has come forward with allegations that Verner is a…
In the market for a pile of tasseled silk pillows? A pair of matching swan figurines? Or perhaps you hanker to collect the tchotckes of disgraced former pols. Ex-U.S. Congressman Mark Foley has opened a furniture consignment store in West Palm Beach, the Post reported yesterday. The shop, at 1930…
Above: video evidence that Gov. Charlie Crist is acquainted with his wife, Carole. The two can be seen together at a party in New Port Richey. It’s not clear whether they came together or if they bumped into each other by sheer coincidence. The legitimacy of this marriage has been…
OK, we take it back. Lake Worth blogger and citizen activist Wes Blackman is a reasonable man: Maybe he didn’t dive headfirst into the deep end — he just dipped his toe in. Blackman sent the Juice an email of bullet points about his recent complaint to the Florida Department…
West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel is to give Ozzy Osbourne a key to the city at a ceremony tonight, marking perhaps the most meaningless key to the city handoff in the history of key to the city awards.And there’s a long history of embarrassing key handoffs, although perhaps none…
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz this morning announced that she had given her endorsement in the Florida Attorney General’s race to State Sen. Dan Gelber. But Gelber’s news-cycle victory was short-lived. Because just a few hours later, his opponent, State Sen. Dave Aronberg, announced that Congressman Ron Klein was endorsing Aronberg’s…
Charlie Crist sparked controversy by hugging President Obama; Marco Rubio had a whirlwind romance with Florida Republicans only to be blindsided by a credit card spending scandal. But neither of those campaigns for U.S. Senate has been dealt as devastating a blow as Kendrick Meek’s. The leading Democrat candidate’s crime:…
“Alex Sink — not one of us,” says the ad by the Republican Governors’ Association. “One of them.” One of them people who wastes money, it appears.But the ad recently put out by the Democratic Party suggests that the other gubernatorial candidate, Bill McCollum, is also financially reckless…
He still hasn’t officially endorsed Marco Rubio, but former Gov. Jeb Bush is sending plenty of signals that that’s his pick for Florida’s next U.S. senator. The most recent piece of evidence came in an interview with a conservative website, Newsmax, in which Bush called Charlie Crist’s support of the…
Mae Frances Feagin, president of Arlington Park Family in 2007, when the nonprofit accepted a $30,000 grant from the City of Deerfield Beach, declined to discuss how that money was spent during a brief phone call Tuesday evening.Juice had been trying to reach Feagin for the past week after having…
Former Politico reporter Jonathan Allen heard all the predictable “liberal media” howls late this past year after he left to join a committee for West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. All that grief only to leave the Wasserman Schultz office after a mere 40 days — and go back to…
Well, congressional candidate Allen West had to do something to stand out at last week’s CPAC. That’s newly posted video of his speech. At 3:35, he says:A nation goes to war against an ideology. We are against something that is a totalitarian, theocratic, political ideology, and it is called Islam…
Larry Deetjen, the longtime city manager of Deerfield Beach now working in the Midwest, has landed his new city in legal trouble. The landlords of a minority-dominated housing complex in Oak Lawn, Ilinois, say that Deetjen, as village manager, made racially insensitive remarks about the building’s tenants. Last week, those…
The Pembroke Pines city commissioners are debating whether to hire an internal auditor. In these cash-strapped times, they’re looking for someone who will monitor the Broward suburb’s spending habits and report on them truthfully, without feeling beholden to the city manager.Not surprisingly, City Manager Charlie Dodge isn’t keen on the…
They all hate taxes, so why can’t all tea partiers love one another? This week has revealed divisions within the tea party activist community of South Florida, and in Central Florida the infighting has spilled into the courts, where an Orlando radio host is being accused of “hijacking” the tea…
Sweatpants aren’t just comfortable exercise attire. They’re also a subtle way of telling the world you’ve just. Stopped. Trying. In the video above, it’s hard to tell whether Gov. Charlie Crist has reached that point in his senatorial campaign — or if he really is on the way to a…
Karin Hoffman of Coral Springs (that’s her in the video below) says that no matter what you’ve read on this blog — or in the national media — she absolutely is a member of the tea party movement. And the meeting that Hoffman and her allies recently had with Republican…
Any time public money goes missing in Broward County, we’re conditioned to reach for our tomatoes and wait for a public official to do a perp walk. But Deerfield Beach interim city manager Burgess Hanson is trying to dampen that speculation in the weeks following an internal investigation into how…
