Over the last few months, Delray Beach has been torn up by a debate over the Arts Garage, a popular multi-purpose space in the city’s downtown area. The issue is whether a law firm should be allowed to outbid the non-profit on the high-end real estate. If you’ve been plugged…
Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Texas Gov. Rick Perry brought their zany comedy-duo routine to the Palm Beach Strategic Forum at the Palm Beach County Convention Center on Monday when they both took the stage at the same time. It was like Lex Luthor and Montogmery Burns together in one…
In case you haven’t heard, rapper/mogul/Brooklyn Nets owner Jay-Z and his wife, Beyoncé (the girl who sang at the Super Bowl, Grandma), decided that it was 1950 and went and took a vacation in Cuba last week. And now Florida Republican Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart Ileana Ros-Lehtinen want to know what’s…
President Barack Obama called California Attorney General Kamala Harris on Thursday night to apologize for calling her “by far the best-looking attorney general in the country” during a Democratic National Committee fundraiser on Thursday afternoon in Atherton, California. And rightly so. Obama should apologize. Because everyone in their right damn…
Back in January, New Face Of The Hope Of New GOP Future Marco Rubio voted against the $60.4 billion in aid for Sandy relief bill because O MAH GAWD ALL DEH PORK! And recently, Charisma Boy! flew to New York to raise campaign money (maybe also selling those awful Rubio…
Texting and driving is closer to being an illegal thing in Florida, thanks to Rep. Doug Holder’s CSHB 13 bill, which cleared its final hurdle in the Florida House and will now head to the floor for final votes. The votes are expected to happen sometime next week after the…
Lake Worth has long been a hotbed for civil disobedience and a mecca for activists, and this weekend some locals are helping organize a group of “womyn (transgender or cisgender), transgender men, and genderqueer & gender-variant people” (but no cisgendered men please!) from across the state who will converge at…
Much to the harrumph of Florida senior citizens everywhere, it looks like internet cafés are closer to being no mas in the Sunshine State. On Tuesday afternoon, a Florida Senate panel voted unanimously to shutter internet cafés and senior arcades…
Republican state senator in Florida Alan Hays is a hero! Hays, who once filed legislation to keep public buses from stopping on streets because one time he got stuck in traffic behind one, says Islam is gonna Sharia Law all up the State of Florida like polio. And if Sharia…
In his never-ending, undaunted quest to be the new face of the GOP by being the old face of the GOP, Marco Rubio will add to his nonbigoted hatred of gays, his marginalizing of women, and his denial of scientific fact ways by fighting off any and all attempts to…
This is a bit of a guess, but we think it’s safe to say Broward Republican Chair Tom Truex didn’t change his Facebook photo this week to one of those now-ubiquitous red equal signs. Truex — a former Davie mayor who recently took the reins from Rick Petrocelli, private investigator…
The former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, Jim Greer, was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison, plus a year’s probation for stealing from the Republican Party. See also: – Jim Greer: Racism and Dead Bodies Ahead – Jim Greer Lied to Everyone: to Us, to You, to…
Good news, everyone! Gov. Rick Scott says he’s super-disappointed in Florida Atlantic University having a professor who had a “step on Jesus” exercise in his class that may or may not have gotten a student suspended. See also: – FAU Student Suspended for Not Stepping on Jesus – FAU Apologizes…
We recently introduced you to Chris Brennan, the Water Taxi employee who was fired after he made a YouTube video defending the six-story-tall, nearly 100-year-old rain tree — which will be moved if developer Asi Cymbal is permitted to build the Marina Lofts development in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Cymbal is…
Rick Scott really, really, still very much wants people to pee into a cup randomly if he’s going to give them financial help or let government workers keep getting a paycheck. Last month, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta unanimously ruled that an earlier ruling by a lower…
Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush have seemingly been jockeying for position under the proverbial basket for the proverbial rebound that is the run to the White House in 2016 — particularly in Florida, which is not only a vital swing state but also has the potential to screw up every…
We get a lot of emails from Rick Scott. Like a lot. He never forgets his friendly neighborhood media, and he’s always appointing someone to some bureaucracy somewhere. But two days ago, he hit us with this Huffington Post article that made everyone go, “Wuuuuuuhhhh”?? The article concerns how swell…
We were remiss not to tell you about this sooner, but on the last day of February, a Palm Beach County judge handed down yet another win to Fane Lozman, the Marine Corps pilot turned millionaire stockbroker turned houseboat owner turned hero for the Little Man everywhere. Lozman made national…
Rick Scott continues to be unliked by many amounts of people, despite the fact that he’s changed his mind about things like Medicaid expansion and despite adding more early voting days and declaring his love for Florida panthers. The latest Quinnipiac University poll, released early Wednesday, shows that people ain’t care…
After a short-lived term as Broward Republican chairman came to a close for Rico Petrocelli because he didn’t get along with people, or some such thing, the Broward GOP had a chance to really come out swinging, especially after getting slammed in the November elections, and choose a new leader…
Scott Prouty’s rich! Well, kinda. Scott Prouty can finally get outta debt! That’s better. Five days ago, after more than 1,000 articles appeared showing how local man Scott Prouty helped vanquish the Romnoms once and for all with his commando camera skills, he set up a legal fund to battle…
The timing couldn’t have been better for the shenanigans local activist Aaron Jackson and his non-profit, Planting Peace, pulled off in Topeka, Kansas yesterday. If you managed to avoid social media or the internet in general over the last 24 hours, the Destin-based activist, along with friends and partners involved…
