When last we heard from Marco Rubio concerning the situation with Syria, he was busy saying he was all for military action, but Obama is leading from behind, so now it’s probably still a good time to strike, but if only Obama had done it sooner… er something. Well, Golden…
When a Florida man was stopped and searched by cops, he tried to conceal the crack pipe he was carrying. Since cops tend to look in pockets and hats and shoes and pants, the man hid the pipe in the one place they wouldn’t be able to spot during a…
War is hell, everyone knows — even if you’re supposedly fighting it with unmanned drones, surgical strikes, and big-ass warships. If you’re one of the many getting that icky feeling in your stomach about possible impending military action in Syria, you might want to grab some posterboard and a Sharpie…
C’mon — you’ve got to be mad at Rick Scott about something! Leaving Stand Your Ground intact? Decimating the Department of Environmental Protection? Not showing up at his own education summit? Making baldness sexy? What started out a protest against oil drilling has morphed into a catch-all event. People from…
Fane Lozman has seen plenty of rampant corruption in Riviera Beach. He’s also convinced there’s more, so he’s putting his money where his mouth is. Lozman, along with the Palm Beach Sun newspaper (to which Lozman contributes occasional columns), is offering a $50,000 reward for information about city councilmen Cedrick…
Now that Tamarac Commissioner “Positively Patte” Atkins-Grad’s recall has been made official, it was time to wait for the recall election date to be announced. And that time is today. On Wednesday morning, Broward’s chief judge announced that the recall election will be held on October 15. It will be…
UPDATE 9:03 a.m. Jackie Schutz says “Governor Scott asked Commissioner of Education Pam Stewart to convene the summit to provide the opportunity to openly discuss ideas and options to continue improving Florida’s public school system. Governor Scott was not scheduled to attend.” She also provided a list of invitees, posted…
Tom Rooney, your 17th Congressional District rep, isn’t too fired up about the U.S. possibly taking military action in Syria. Or, as the Palm Beach Post puts it, he’s “apprehensive” and “wary” of any action. “I’m pretty against getting involved in a Sunni-Shia civil war,” Rooney says. According to an…
Back in December, a jury found Tamarac Commissioner “Positively Patte” Atkins-Grad not guilty on bribery, official misconduct, receiving unlawful compensation, and conspiring to commit unlawful compensation charges after she threw herself one helluva of an election victory party. But that didn’t stop a recall committee’s door-to-door campaign of gathering signatures…
Alan Williams, a Florida legislator and a supporter of the Dream Defenders — the protesters who staged a sit-in in Gov. Rick Scott’s Tallahassee office over the controversial Stand Your Ground law — has filed legislation to repeal the law. Williams, a Tallahassee Democrat and outspoken critic of Stand Your…
The Fort Lauderdale City Commission will vote tonight on whether to allow a nearly 100-year-old tree to be moved so a developer can build a 960-unit apartment complex called Marina Lofts on the New River. The site is west of the Broward County Jail and the Downtowner saloon, near the…
Once upon a time, Marco “Golden Boy” Rubio was seen as the great Hispanic hope for the Republican Party — he fell perfectly in line with all the GOP’s wonderful ideas, like denying climate change and talking about how bad illegal immigrants were. But this January, he proposed a path…
Back in July, we told you about the United For Care Campaign, a group run by People United for Medical Marijuana, who took up the fight to get legalized medical marijuana on the ballot in Florida in November of 2014 as a Constitutional Amendment. The group needed to collect 68,314…
The time has come. On Tuesday, August 20, the Fort Lauderdale city commission will vote in what promises to be one of most contentious meetings ever. The commission must decide: Will they say no to a well-connected developer and the apartment project that was designed by the hottest young architect…
Rick Scott’s idea to give debit cards to teachers so that they can buy themselves school supplies without dipping into their own pockets has shockingly gone bust. Mainly because, while the idea is a noble and good one, its execution was dumb. Also, because the cards won’t be ready until…
On April 19, an Israeli military officer, Col. Bentzi Gruber, came to Florida Atlantic University to give a presentation called “Ethics in the Field,” explaining how the Israeli Defense Forces thwart attacks and defending the Israeli military against accusations of human rights violations. Five students, members of the FAU chapter…
This month, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released a hefty report on the worse governors in America. And yup, no news flash here, Rick Scott made the short list for the barrel’s bottom. CREW picked six governors as the worst of the worst, a distinction Scott…
The more than $1 billion in economic activity that the expansion at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is expected to generate will certainly make airline and airport executives and contractors a bit more wealthy. But Some of the baggage workers feel a bit left out which is why they are…
It looks like Gov. Rick Scott has decided to get back on that voter purge of “noncitizens” horse again, thanks to the Supreme Court’s ruling gutting Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Scott went on his mostly ineffective, mostly arbitrary voter purge last year after state officials sent local…
UPDATE: Bennett has officially resigned. See his press conference statement below Tony Bennett, Florida’s Education Commissioner, will resign after allegations of his changing a charter school’s grade in Indiana to benefit a big money bags Republican donor cropped up earlier this week. The news of his resignation comes a day…
So, apparently, the Rev. Jesse Jackson called Florida an “Apartheid State” and the “Selma of our time” and made a comparison between Gov. Rick Scott and historically racist 1960s Alabama Gov. George Wallace. Naturally, Scott is demanding an apology. Jackson made the comments while visiting the Dream Defenders, who are…
Since July 16, protestors calling themselves the “Dream Defenders” have been occupying the state capitol building to protest George Zimmerman’s acquittal and push for the repeal of Florida’s Stand Your Ground laws. Harry Belafonte has joined the cause and Jay-Z is boycotting Florida in solidarity. All weekend, the Florida Department…
