Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Appear on CBS News Tonight

West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will be profiled on tonight’s edition of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, which begins in about an hour, at 6:30. The segment on Wasserman Schultz’s surviving breast cancer and her legislative cause against the disease will air toward the end of the…

Some CRAs Really Know How to Woo a Publix

This week’s New Times feature details the battle between forward-thinking urban activists and the City of West Palm Beach over how to develop a blighted section of West Palm Beach, Northwood Village.  That battle centered around whether or not Publix could be wooed to the neighborhood’s planned anchor site. The…

Did Wexler Have Falling Out With Obama?

In Barack Obama’s presidential election, Robert Wexler was one of those linchpins. As an early supporter, he convinced a great many wary Jewish voters in South Florida that Obama would be a friend of Israel, as Obama himself promised. It was crucial to winning Florida.But since Obama won election, he’s…

The Long Arm of Calvin, Giordano in South Florida

The private, Fort Lauderdale-base consulting firm Calvin, Giordano & Associates plays a big role in providing essential government services in Broward County. As the Juice has reported, the firm has a monopoly in the City of West Park — doing everything from planning and engineering to running the city website…

Kendrick Meek Campaign Suddenly Saddled With Electability Questions

The St. Petersburg Times and Miami Herald teamed up for an article in yesterday’s editions that voiced concerns among Democrats that their leading senatorial candidate, Congressman Kendrick Meek, isn’t “high-profile” enough to beat Charlie Crist. It’s a strange moment to raise that question — it appears to have been prompted…

Broward Republicans: Still Crazier Than Broward Democrats

With an ethics scandal rocking the Democratic powers of Broward County — and just a few days after a Democratic mayoral candidate for one Broward city was arrested for pulling a gun on his daughter, the Democratic mayor of Broward County — the Republican Party may have been looking pretty…

Is Greyhound Racing Doomed in Florida?

[jump] racing ended completely. “As tracks fold one by one across the United States, it becomes less and less clear why the state of Florida continues to suffer the cruelty of dog racing,” Grey2K’s president, Christine Dorchak, told me. “Of the 24 remaining dog tracks nationwide, 13 are hosted by…

Senate Race Looking More Competitive — on One Side, Anyway

Charlie Crist continues to lead in polls, but former House Speaker Marco Rubio has all the momentum in the battle for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. During a quarter when he appeared on the cover of the National Review, dominated straw polls, and received high praise from GOP luminaries…

Dragon Boaters Find Temporary Haven in Hollywood

The City of Hollywood rarely gets a chance to shine as a beacon of political sanity. But after a strange, months-long tussle between dragon boaters, a lone kayaker, and Broward County commissioners, the scrappy city now looks like a hero.A dragon boating team known as the Blazing Paddles was threatened…

Conflict of Interest? Scandal-Plagued Goren Sees No Evil in Pembroke Pines

This summer, the Juice raised ethical questions about the City of Pembroke Pines’ decision to outsource its building department to a private, Fort Lauderdale-based company, Calvin, Giordano & Associates. Because the firm also handles multimillion-dollar engineering projects for the city, it could face serious conflicts of interest when reviewing building…

JB’s on the Beach Bolts From City Pier Bid

Late Friday, one day after staffers at Deerfield Beach City Hall met to discuss bids by local restaurateurs for the space at the end of the city’s pier, JB’s on the Beach has withdrawn from the competition.Of course, in August, JB’s won that bid only to have it thrown out…

At Lauderdale Show, GWAR Decapitates Obama

That’s some recently posted footage from the 25-year-old heavy metal band’s appearance this weekend at Revolution. I’m not fluent in “GWAR,” but I’ll give this a try: An Obama figure who gets his head torn off and spits geysers of blood through his neck means that a heavy metal band…

Carole Crist’s Strangely Secret Cameo in Palm Beach

If the governor’s wife holds a cancer-awareness event and no one is there to witness it, did it really happen?Yesterday, Carole Crist spoke at a luncheon at the Brazilian Court Hotel in Palm Beach. Her goal was to raise awareness about ovarian cancer. But only about a dozen people attended…

Chambliss Golf Scandal Hits Boca Raton Resort

Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss has a small problem with political scandal. Four years ago he was scolded for missing an intelligence briefing on the Iraq war to golf with Tiger Woods. Then last fall he released an unfortunate campaign commercial in which he appeared to be groping the chest of…

Hollywood Woman Voted Twice?!?

Quick! Someone find Milagros Serrano!  This article says she voted in upstate New York — even though she’s lived in Hollywood the last two years.The signature attributed to Serrano on the ballot looks nothing like her signature from a voter registration card filed several years ago at the Board of…

George Will Also Loves Marco Rubio (Or Does He Just Despise Charlie Crist?)

Yesterday in his nationally syndicated column, the Washington Post’s George Will joined the chorus of “true” conservatives to accuse Charlie Crist of being — gasp! — a moderate. Will condemned the national Republicans who gave Crist their endorsement the moment after Crist announced his candidacy for Senate. And he’s showing…

Guilt by Association? Pines Attorney Sam Goren Takes Pay Cut Too

A mysterious illness has infected the highly paid, privately contracted top administrators at the City of Pembroke Pines, causing them to become suddenly squeamish about their paychecks. First, City Manager Charlie Dodge volunteered to slice $20,000 off his company’s annual salary of $755,000. Then, Wednesday night, moments before the City…

Did Salesman Violate Campaign Finance Laws Too?

I suppose it’s a deck chair on the Titanic, but check out this page of then-Miramar Commissioner Fitzroy Salesman’s campaign finance treasurer’s report from 2005. In the two boxes on the top, in the column that requires the name and address of the campaign contributor, Salesman wrote, “Fund Raiser” and…