A week after he disclosed his intention to fire the North Broward Hospital District CEO Frank Nask, Commissioner Robert Bernstein is now demanding to know how a Nask associate is being paid roughly twice what that position paid just four years ago.That associate is Deborah Breen, the district’s vice president…
It’s hard to fathom, but some dishy new campaign tell-all book casts Florida Gov. Charlie Crist as a treacherous, ruthlessly self-interested politician looking to sell his endorsement in the 2008 presidential campaign to whatever Republican promised to pay him the most political capital in return.Yup, that sounds like our Charlie.The…
What better place to promote a new Justice Department task force against financial fraud than South Florida? Specifically, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder gave his speech this afternoon at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches, which staged a luncheon in his honor at the Kravis Center. In the speech,…
Among the many problems at the North Broward Hospital District (a pending criminal corruption investigation, a pending internal investigation for fraud, to name a couple), the district’s board currently has an attendance problem. The kind that only Gov. Charlie Crist can fix.The governor appoints the seven members of the board…
It’s a scary thought, but that’s exactly the headline New York Times Magazine chose for its massive piece on the race between Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist.As a portrait of Crist, it’s masterful. The governor’s obsequious way of talking about “the people” who elected him governor. His maddening talent for…
On January 15, the Deerfield Beach City Commission will have a special session to vote on whether to fire its city manager of three years, Mike Mahaney. That motion was brought at Tuesday’s raucous meeting (video here). This afternoon, I spoke with the maker of the motion, Commissioner Bill Ganz.”If…
Citing “unnamed sources” in the North Broward Hospital District, Commissioner Robert Bernstein has told Juice that two of his colleagues — Commissioners Joseph Cobo and Mike Fernandez — will not attend the district’s January 27 meeting and that their likely motive is to avoid a vote on Bernstein’s motion to…
Mayor Peggy Noland is walking around Deerfield Beach today, chances are she’s got a big grin on her face. That’s because she’s close to finishing a task she’s been working on for nearly a year: the termination of City Manager Mike Mahaney. (Video here, on Chaz Stevens’ Acts of Sedition.]”In…
In this evening’s meeting of the Deerfield Beach City Commission, officials took an initial step toward terminating Mike Mahaney as their city manager, a post he’s held for nearly three years.The motion was made by Commissioner Bill Ganz, who told his colleagues that he’d discussed the matter earlier that day…
Let’s not get too carried away with the celebration for our soon-to-be cheaper trash bills. We had been paying $98.50 per ton for trash. And now Broward residents will pay $61.75 per ton. That’s because we’ve finally paid off the bonds for the two incinerators, which are so huge that…
In a Florida Republican Party in which Charlie Crist is a mere mortal, there can be no saving his handpicked party chair, Jim Greer. The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that Greer will resign his leadership post in advance of a party meeting on Saturday in Orlando, where he was likely…
Brad Meltzer is the bestselling author of The Book of Fate, so his predictions should not be taken lightly. U.S. News & World Report rounded up him and others among America’s public intellectuals to get their perspective on what would happen in 2010. Meltzer’s crystal ball imagines a right winger’s…
Broward County, a longtime bastion of Democratic politics, is under siege — not by Republicans, mind you, but by their indefatigable libertarian wing, the Tea Party. Don’t believe me? Then watch the video below, apparently shot by an Austrian economist and tourist who is fascinated by the Tea Party’s growth…
As you can see from the video above, this year’s pro-Israel rally in downtown Fort Lauderdale did not attract last year’s batch of counterprotesting, virulently anti-Semite Muslims. Just a bunch of like-minded people furious over the Obama administration’s handling of terrorism threats and diplomatic policies in the Middle East.The rally…
Davie Town Council member Susan Starkey says she never said “Jews try to convert everyone,” as alleged by activist Joe Kaufman, of the Coral Springs-based Americans Against Hate.The exchange occurred December 18 between Starkey and Jeff Rubinoff, at the holiday party of the Davie / Cooper Republican Club, of which…
Here’s a radio interview that must be heard to be believed: That’s Andy Martin, who used to be a constantly campaigning candidate in Palm Beach County and has since taken his constant campaigning to Illinois, where he’s a candidate for U.S. Senate.As you can hear for yourself, the interview jumps…
One year ago, this ugly scene happened in downtown Fort Lauderdale, as pro-Israel demonstrators clashed with Muslim activists: And in just a few minutes, the South Floridians for the Safety and Security of Israel are staging another rally, in the same location, near the federal courts building on Broward Boulevard.A…
A Davie street sign commemorating a donation by a Muslim group has triggered controversy for Susan Starkey, a longtime member of the Davie Town Council who allegedly hurled an accusation at Jews while arguing that the sign should stay.The Council on American-Islamic Relations is the donor, having adopted a road…
Let me get this straight: In a world where a terrorist can blow up a jumbo jet with his underwear, we Americans aren’t quite sure it’s worth protecting ourselves by letting a security guard see us without our underwear?Apparently so, judging by the debate that’s occurred on the cable news…
Surely, you veteran political observers of Palm Beach County remember ol’ Andy Martin. He ran for governor and senator and dog-catcher while he was in Florida. More recently, Martin made waves on a national stage because he was the one political figure shameless enough to publicly peddle the rumor that…
Since late last year, when Sen. Mel Martinez announced he wouldn’t be running for reelection to his seat in 2010, it was Charlie Crist’s to lose. He was one of the nation’s most popular governors, with a knack for charming his detractors that bordered on Reagan-esque.After Jeb Bush declared he…
That’s the only explanation I can offer for Charlie Crist’s appointment of Rico Petrocelli to the Broward County Housing Authority, which Buddy Nevins is reporting on Broward Beat. Petrocelli, of course, was defeated in his bid for the Plantation City Commission. His campaign, which was bankrolled by high-profile lobbyists and…
