‘Tis the season of perplexing, politically loaded holidays. Today is Earth Day, which according to the video below (by the blessedly clairvoyant religious right) is destined to replace Patriot’s Day on the school calendar — which is strange because Patriot’s Day isn’t actually on the school calendar, is it? No…
Sunrise Mayor Roger Wishner, facing scrutiny for having been among those commissioners who hired his former attorney Stuart Michelson as the city attorney, provided Juice with documents suggesting that in Michelson’s first six months on the job, he has helped the city save more than a half-million dollars. The documents,…
The media klieg lights are always on, but they dim just a tad around the close of the business day Friday. Everybody’s off to happy hour, or making the week’s last commute home. Media consumers take a break to spend time with friends and family, and it may be late…
In a conversation that seems to have been recorded at the cafeteria lunch table where the in crowd sits, Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter and Commissioner Ken Keechl decided that fellow Commissioner John Rodstrom is not in-crowd material. That’s because Rodstrom’s pushing a bill that would bar commissioners from calling upon…
Currently, it’s called “A Child Is Missing,” but the Fort Lauderdale organization founded to quickly circulate reports of missing children to Florida law enforcement may soon name itself after Caylee Anthony. It’s not even the organization’s idea. Rather, it’s the brainstorm of Orlando-area U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, who told the…
Nancy Pelosi will appear at a news conference Monday with Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to announce $1.5 million in funding for Broward Community & Family Health Centers. That money’s a tiny chunk of the nearly $800 billion federal stimulus package that passed in February. With a policy that huge, Democrats…
We didn’t set out to make this Pick on Adam Hasner Week here at the Juice, but after Monday’s heads-up that the Jewish state representative from Delray Beach was supporting a controversial anti-Islam conference, we stumbled across this item from the St. Pete Times showing that Hasner introduced an amendment…
Hey, remember that delightful Coral Springs lady who took a shine to Sarah Palin, launched a blog for her, and — perhaps because this was so patently absurd — received some media coverage for it? And then some media coverage about that media coverage? Well, you won’t believe this, but…
Palm Beach County is running so smoothly these days, what it really needs is a taste of Iraqi-style contracting. Private companies rake in billions of dollars supporting the military operations in that stunningly successful war, so why shouldn’t they also earn a buck or two at home? That’s where Kellogg,…
They should have seen this coming. Last year, when the Sunrise City Commission chose as its new city attorney, Stuart Michelson, it guaranteed itself a future full of ethical quandaries. The latest one is whether it’s ethically appropriate for Michelson to advise a charter review board whose decisions will influence…
Who would have guessed that witnessing a tea bagging would be so hard to swallow? Honestly, I thought yesterday afternoon was going to be funny. I figured I’d stroll a few blocks from the New Times the Juice office down to the federal courthouse at Broward and NE Third Avenue…
This time of year, the nation’s college football teams stage spring practices, and in a measure to spare quarterbacks from risk of injury, teams dress that player in a red or yellow jersey — a visual reminder to linebackers that this one player is untouchable. When Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz…
South Florida’s most exclusive real estate is crawling with feral cats who have — in a fashion that the children of a wealthy divorced couple might appreciate — been playing one of their benefactors against the other. It’s “PB Cats” versus “Island Cats of Palm Beach,” both of whom would…
[jump] Another bill the House passed Monday would eliminate blackjack at tribal casinos like the Hard Rock, but would increase betting limits in poker across the state (raising the maximum buy-in from $100 to $1,000), allow card rooms to operate 24 hours a day, and decrease taxes pari-mutuels pay on profits from…
Just when things had finally quieted down for uncloseted former Palm Beach Congressman Mark Foley, here comes a documentary called Outrage by notorious celluloid provocateur Kirby Dick. In advance of its debut next week at the Tribeca Film Festival, the picture is getting buzz for being controversial, if only because…
That election is this June in Iran, pitting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the Religious Neanderthal Republic of Iran, against Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a “reformist” who would moderate some of the nation’s hard-line policies on human rights and in international diplomacy. That is, he’d steer it a few degrees left of the…
Bob Smith, who for 12 years served as New Hampshire’s U.S. Senator, is betting that his brand of retro-Republicanism will carry him to victory in the 2010 race to be U.S. Senator from Florida. Smith retired in Sarasota six years ago and declared his candidacy this month. If elected, he…
Today, the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) pointed out that State Rep. Adam Hasner — the House Republican leader — is listed as a “coalition partner” for an upcoming coming “free speech summit” that could be seen as an anti-Muslim event. The featured speaker will be Geert Wilders, a controversial…
If you haven’t yet received this email forward, it means you don’t have enough wingnut friends.”It does not hurt to read this several times,” the note begins in bold letters. In fact, it only hurts to read it a few times. By the fourth time, the mind-numbing idiocy of it…
Hallandale Beach has a fairly quirk-tastic government. Remember the one about the city manager to whom it paid nearly a half-million last year? Good stuff. Another quirk: the commissioners habit of waiting several months, even years, to approve the minutes of past meetings. At this Wednesday’s meeting the city will…
Someone ought to give these Jeb Bush education ideas a try. Check it out: accountability for school districts by punishing and humiliating the low-scoring ones, school choice to put more pressure on public schools because they need more of that, and a statistics-based apples-to-apples comparison between schools — even when…
