Looks like Office Depot, which is based in Boca Raton, has a major scandal on its hands. A former senior account executive named David Sherwin has accused the office supply retailer of overcharging governments across the country, and there’s talk of a grand jury investigation in Florida.Judging by the article…
I’ve been stymied in my efforts to get an answer to the question I put at the bottom of this mammoth post from yesterday, about the Deerfield Beach’s Mango Festival. Namely, why did the city cut the Mango Festival a check for $36,000 in June 2008?Acting parks and recreation director…
The Mango Festival of Deerfield Beach has a math problem: Its most recent festival, in June 2008, attracted a lot of people. But for some reason, it didn’t make a lot of money. And for the city, which has invested more than a million dollars in that festival over the…
In a post yesterday that’s part of our Panning for Gold series, I made a crack about how it’s rather foolish to trust a charter fisherman’s hunch about the sustainability of fish population — not just for the obvious fox-running-the-hen-house reasons. Mainly, it’s because there’s a much more reliable, objective…
That’s video of an October 6 meeting of the Deerfield Beach Commission meeting at which city leaders voted to allow Island Water Sports to stage its “Midnight Madness” sales event on October 23. An innocuous bit of city business — except that according to blogger Chaz Stevens, Mayor Peggy Noland’s…
It would have been a more fortuitous sign for Marco Rubio if Doug Hoffman hadn’t lost his congressional race in upstate New York, but the fact that a Conservative Party candidate won 45 percent of the vote has Rubio more hopeful than ever. The same can be said for the…
After watching three Republicans on the Palm Beach County Commission head to prison on corruption charges, one might imagine local Democratic operatives corking champagne bottles in anticipation of next year’s battle to fill the seat held by Republican Commissioner Steven Abrams.But politics in Corruption County are never that simple. Indeed,…
It probably comes as no surprise that Lake Worth residents under age 12 overwhelmingly favor Javier del Sol in today’s mayoral race. When asked why she was supporting del Sol this morning, the urchin pictured above hesitated, rubbed her toe into the ground, and answered, “I don’t know.” But we…
Immigration is a hot-button issue in tomorrow’s Lake Worth City Commission elections, in part due to the large number of undocumented residents in the city but also because of the recent flap over candidate Scott Maxwell’s alleged ties to anti-immigration hate groups. Tomorrow, Lake Worth residents go to the polls…
Immigration is a hot-button issue in tomorrow’s Lake Worth City Commission elections, in part due to the large number of undocumented residents in the city but also because of the recent flap over candidate Scott Maxwell’s alleged ties to anti-immigration hate groups. Tomorrow, Lake Worth residents go to the polls…
At the Florida Secretary of State database, you can call up a list of the Florida politicians who accepted campaign contributions from embattled attorney Scott Rothstein. Long, isn’t it? Mind you, that doesn’t include the contributions he made to the candidates for federal office — John McCain and Charlie Crist,…
Immigration is a hot-button issue in tomorrow’s Lake Worth City Commission elections, in part due to the large number of undocumented residents in the city but also because of the recent flap over candidate Scott Maxwell’s alleged ties to anti-immigration hate groups. Tomorrow, Lake Worth residents go to the polls…
Attorney Scott Rothstein hasn’t been charged with any crime, and there’s no evidence of wrongdoing at this point, but this morning, it’s become clear that there will at least be very serious civil suits against him, the type that will call into question whether he was honest with people who…
I’m dashing off for Halloween weekend, but as long we’re giving props to gritty journalists who’ve gone blog-happy, here’s some fantastic, in-depth reporting, courtesy John DeGroot, about the case of Gabriel Myers, the 7-year-old foster child in Margate who hung himself with a rubber hose in April.This story’s not going…
In the video above, which was posted to Youtube today, you can hear Lake Worth City Commission candidate Scott Maxwell on his own radio show. The audio leaves little doubt that on immigration, he lines up to the right of Lou Dobbs. By the sound of it, he’s getting mighty…
After 30 years in the South Florida news business, Dan Christensen isn’t about to let one small layoff stop him from mining the bottomless pit of Broward County corruption.The veteran Daily Business Review and Miami Herald reporter has launched a new nonprofit investigative news site, Broward Bulldog, that aims to…
We spoke by phone with Scott Maxwell just minutes after the PBC Environmental Coalition ended its news conference in Lake Worth this afternoon, where speakers alleged that Maxwell, who is running for City Commission District 1, had ties to racist and white supremacist groups, specifically the Federation for Immigration Reform…
Trevor Keezor broke his company’s rules. He was warned several times. Then he was fired. That should probably be the end of the story. But Mr. Keezor sees himself as a martyr, a spokesperson for Christians everywhere who aren’t allowed to write their own dress code policies and demand they…
At about the 2:40 mark of this Sun-Sentinel video, you’ll hear Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler complain about the lack of positive media coverage of the Broward County School Board. Then former Attorney General Bob Butterworth plays editor, questioning why the dailies didn’t give more coverage to some lame awards…
Is it the one that Rubio’s campaign released yesterday, seen below? Or is it the more controversial one that Rubio has denounced as “offensive” and “grotesque.” (He forgot, “hilarious.”) I’ve posted that video after the jump…
The Lake Worth elections slated for November 3rd just get weirder by the minute. As if the flap about Mayoral candidate Rene Varela’s role in the sales of wild dolphins to a marine park in Dubai weren’t scandal enough, now the Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition is claiming that one…
Olga Bichachi, a reporter for WPLG-TV (Channel 10) at least as recently as February 2008, has gone rogue! That’s her as part of a picket that took place last week outside her old studio in Hallandale Beach. She sounds pretty convincing — right up to the point where she starts…
