With teachers being one of the largest collectives in the state pissed off with Gov. Rick Scott and his tradition of avoiding public schools like the plague, it seems a bit strange that the governor would play teacher for one of his “Let’s Get to Work” days.Regardless, that’s what the…
Tuesday saw the first of two public hearings at the Broward County Commission about redistricting in the wake of the 2010 Census — deciding how the county’s nine commissioners will split up their constituencies in an attempt to meld geographical equity with a little well-intentioned gerrymandering: The current districts, which…
Gov. Rick Scott maintained his position of having the crappiest approval rating among the country’s governors, but Floridians like the governor more than they like the Occupy movement, according to a poll released today.Quinnipiac University — which announced the highest approval rating of Scott’s governorship last month — announced his…
So far, the sexual-harassment claims against GOP presidential candidate have not affected some of his most valuable voters — Florida Republicans.Despite the flurry of allegations that have been raised in the past month — which Cain refers to as “nonsense” — they have had absolutely zero effect on Cain’s polling…
If the youngsters out there need something a little more high-brow than a fart-noise application for their iPhones, there are now apps for that.Sen. Marco Rubio announced the release of the aptly named “U.S. Senator Marco Rubio” application for the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices this week, and it actually…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio — America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” — is getting out of Arizona this weekend to be the headliner for the “Choose Liberty 2012” event, hosted by the Eastern Orlando Tea Party and the Koch brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity.According to the sheriff’s PR crew out in the…
Today is Election Day, and in case you were tempted to stay home because the candidates are all local nobodies, the City of Lake Worth is here to change your mind.Here in the Brooklyn of South Florida, we have a City Commission candidate who, in addition to being a respected…
Once again, Hallandale Beach Commissioner Keith London found himself the lone dissenter on a vote in which the gung-ho City Commission voted, under the leadership of Mayor Joy Cooper, to spend millions on a real-estate purchase without clear plans for what the property would become.William Gjebre at Broward Bulldog has…
Gov. Rick Scott may not think Florida needs more anthropologists, but cruise-ship DJs — that’s a different story.The governor held another one of his borrowed “Let’s Get to Work” days this Friday at the Port of Miami, and among his duties, the governor’s office said Scott planned to “demonstrate his…
Patrick Murphy, one of the Democratic hopefuls in the race for Rep. Allen West’s congressional seat, has joined several of his party colleagues — including DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and former Rep. Alan Grayson — to come out in support of the Occupy movement.In an email to campaign…
GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rick “I want to go to war with China” Santorum will be joining Reps. Allen West and Tom Rooney for a cute little picnic this weekend sponsored by the Republican Party of Palm Beach County.Santorum’s appearance at the “GOP Family Picnic,” as well as the appearance…
Gov. Rick Scott’s reaction on Wednesday to a former staffer for Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll being charged with illegally recording a conversation: “It is a disappointment.” (He said that twice.)His reaction to the part of that audio recording in which Carroll’s chief of staff said the governor isn’t leading: “That’s…
The Cole Brothers Circus will still be rolling through Margate this year, but the scores of residents and animal-rights activists that showed up to last night’s City Commission meeting may have prevented it from happening again.After presenting the case to the commission about Cole Brothers’ lengthy history of mistreating animals…
According to a poll released yesterday evening by Suffolk University, Florida voters like highly unlikely vice-presidential scenarios.If Sen. Marco Rubio were to be the selection on the GOP ticket, pollsters say Republicans would carry Florida 46 percent to 41.If Hillary Clinton were to replace Joe Biden as President Obama’s running…
U.S. Senate candidate George LeMieux has apparently run out of things to talk about, so he’s bitching about critiquing trash cans.He’s upset about solar-powered trash compactors — $6,000 “robotic trash cans,” as he calls them — some of which were purchased with federal stimulus cash by the Lynx bus system…
When things don’t go Gov. Rick Scott’s way, it’s time to take off the loafers and put on the flip-flops.First he promised 700,000 extra jobs for Florida over seven years, and after falling behind state projections, he tried to lie his way out of it by claiming he never promised…
Four months ago, we brought you a sobering catalog of Rick Scott’s dirtiest deeds as chief executive of this fair state. There were a dozen items on the list — gems like outsourcing prisons to political donors, slashing funding for public education, and mandating drug tests for state workers.But a…
Gov. Rick Scott was happy to announce yesterday that Boeing is creating 550 jobs in Florida by 2015 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.Aside from the fact that 500 jobs in four years doesn’t quite offset the few thousand people laid off after the space shuttle program was…
President Obama will debate some guy (don’t pretend like Michele Bachmann is in contention) at Lynn University in Boca Raton next year, according to an announcement from the Commission on Presidential Debates.The debate, scheduled for October 22, 2012, is planned to be the last of three, preceded by one at…
It’s Halloween, and if you don’t have a costume, we’ve got just the thing to make children and former government workers so scared, they’ll barf up their Sour Patch Kids — the Gov. Rick Scott mask.Not surprisingly, this one’s brought to you by the anti-Scott liberals over at Pink Slip…
“The new jail planned for southwest Broward County will go in a barren area where the county puts things that nobody wants,” wrote David Fleshler and John Maines at the beginning of a story in the Sun-Sentinel.At stake was a plan by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a landowner…
U.S. Rep. Allen West has already tried to end federal funding for National Public Radio. But if he needed another reason to hate NPR, yesterday’s “All Things Considered” segment should do the trick. The story explored West’s view of Islam as a “totalitarian, theocratic, political ideology” and his ongoing rhetorical battle…
