On paper, the congressional district of Rep. Bill Young of St. Petersburg would seem to be one of the best chances for the Democratic Party to pick up a seat. Although Young has kept that district Republican for almost 30 years, it went for Obama last November, and at 78…
Sterling Ivey, press secretary for Gov. Charlie Crist, responded to Juice coverage of the scandals at the North Broward Hospital District with a short statement indicating the governor’s office was keeping tabs on the case but wasn’t ready to act. Said Ivey in a short email:We are aware of the…
We should know the answer to that question in about an hour. Yesterday I sent an email to the governor’s press secretary with a link to the post I made Wednesday. That post told of how the North Broward Hospital District Chairman Mike Fernandez demanded that an ethics investigation be…
“I didn’t come here looking for a job,” attorney Sam Goren said May 14 at an emergency meeting of the North Broward Hospital District’s Board of Commissioners. In the moments before, commissioners had relied upon Goren’s legal counsel in determining that their general counsel, Marc Goldstone, should be fired. Now…
It could be a well-timed move to make him look like a crime-fighting hero (it comes conveniently at the very same time that he’s running for state attorney general), but regardless, it’s pretty cool that State Sen. Dave Aronberg (D-Greenacres) is taking public officials to task for letting private contractors…
Fort Lauderdale’s WFTL-AM (850) talk-radio host Joyce Kaufman is smelling conspiracy everywhere lately. She has hooked up with those zany folks over at the Florida Security Council and believes that there’s a radical Muslim hiding under every rock. “I am obsessed with exposing radical Islam,” Kaufman told us by phone…
After Charlie Crist annihilated Marco Rubio in the most recent round of fundraising for the U.S. Senate campaign, the boyish former House Speaker needs a game-changer. You know, someone who can bolster his maverick persona. Maybe someone who, like Rubio, gives Republicans hope that there’s a younger, more attractive generation…
Documents recently released by the North Broward Hospital District show that its chairman decided his board didn’t have a corruption problem so much as a Martin Goldberg problem. That’s the name of the former assistant U.S. Attorney who was hired by the district’s Board of Commissioners to investigate allegations that…
West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz won her personal battle against breast cancer, and in the war against the disease, she just won a purple heart. Last night in Washington, D.C., during a softball game whose proceeds went to breast cancer, Wasserman Schultz fractured her leg and sprained her ankle…
Speaking of Gov. Charlie Crist’s fundraising skills…This weekend for $1,000 a pop, Crist fans in Sag Harbor, New York, can attend a party hosted by his celebrity pals: Jill Zarin, one of The Real Housewives of New York City, and Donald Trump. Zarin is close friends with Crist’s wife, Carole…
In an era of unprecedented financial insecurity for the state that Charlie Crist governs, the aspiring U.S. senator achieved an unprecedented financial windfall. During his campaign’s most recent quarter, he raised $4.3 million.That combination isn’t lost on Adam Smith, political editor of the St. Petersburg Times. He muses:Just think what…
Beginning Sunday, August 30, at 7 a.m., Comcast will air a half-hour TV program devoted to news about the Middle East. The show, run by the so-called Israel News Network (INN), will be unabashedly pro-Israel and makes no secret of its aim: to counter the growing influence of Al Jazeera,…
Now that three former Palm Beach County commissioners have gone to prison on federal corruption charges, it’s tempting believe that local government has been reborn in a cleaner, more-efficient fashion. But of course, the cynics among us are still trying to sort out the damage that ex-commissioners Mary McCarty, Warren…
Approximately two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed an amendment, introduced by Congressman Alcee Hastings, that would prohibit people affiliated with hate groups from joining the military. The amendment is one of dozens tacked on to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010 — the bill that OKs money…
When the Sun-Sentinel announced that Arkansas transplant Lu Hardin would take the helm of Palm Beach Atlantic University July 1, the newspaper quoted R. Marshall Jones, chairman of the presidential search committee, who called Hardin “a person of great character and ability as well as a man of great faith.” …
If the website NoGovernmentHealthcare.com is any indication, the group of conservative folks who organized the local version of the nationwide “tea parties” have become emboldened by the turnouts they’ve drawn. Now they are fighting Obama’s plan to move toward nationalized health care. If they have their way, they’ll become the…
Pete Dye has modestly dismissed his own career as “digging up other people’s property,” but in truth, he elevated the act of golf course design from a mere landscaping job into an art form. When Dye was inducted into the Golf Hall of Fame in November, Greg Norman introduced him,…
Sam Goren, acting general counsel for the $1 billion North Broward Hospital District, took that job despite having conflicts of interest, according to statements Goren himself made to a district investigator months before Goren assumed his new position.The investigator, Miami attorney Martin Goldberg, was hired by the board to look…
Live greyhound racing in New Hampshire ended swiftly this week with a new state bill that allows the two tracks there to have simulcast betting without having to run dogs on the premises. Similar bills have been proposed in the Florida Legislature each of the past three years, but none…
[jump] Pat Macabi, owner of Macabi Cigar Bar in Fort Lauderdale, has mixed feelings on the new laws. While Macabi is pleased cigars aren’t being taxed like “dirty cigarettes,” he says the system is too convoluted and confusing for retailers. “But they’re right not to tax cigar smokers as much,” he…
That’s a screen grab from Fox News’ recent coverage of disgraced Gov. Mark Sanford. Notice the single letter next to Sanford’s name: “D” as in Democrat.In fact, Sanford is a Republican. Now, I understand that typos happen — this blog being the exception to the rule. But this is an…
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyU.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio scored two big endorsements this week, plus the criticism of from one of those Democrat-leaning MSNBC talking heads, which kinda counts as an endorsement. About 1:10 in the video above, Hardball host Chris Matthews…
