Occupy Fort Lauderdale has set an official date for its first demonstration — a ten-hour stretch on Saturday.The group’s first “solidarity demonstration” is slated to begin at 11 a.m., with a march starting from the federal courthouse in downtown Fort Lauderdale and ending at the Bank of America Plaza.After several…
To: U.S. District Court From: Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning We’re having a small problem with voting down here in Florida. In May, our Legislature passed some brilliant new requirements designed to crack down on unnecessary voters — specifically, people who are poor, move around a lot, and might…
Several months ago, Deerfield Beach Mayor Peggy Noland announced she was getting rid of the entire board of commissioners from the city’s housing authority.Over concerns that federal taxpayer coin was being wasted in the housing authority, Rep. Allen West hopped on the case and asked the U.S. Department of Housing…
Shortly after we posted the announcement from the Patrick Murphy campaign about the hopeful Democratic challenger raising $313,000 last quarter — $1.1 million total — we got word from the camp of Lois Frankel, the other Democrat in the race, striking back.Frankel’s campaign announced that the former West Palm Beach…
Here are Gov. Rick Scott’s small-government principles at work again — he wants the state to pick and choose which university majors are more important and shift funding from liberal arts programs toward the state universities’ engineering, math, and sciences departments.Scott’s main enemy in the battle: anthropology.”You know, we don’t…
The campaign of Democrat Patrick Murphy — who hopes to take on Rep. Allen West in the 2012 election — announced today that candidate Murphy has raised $1.1 million in his bid for the congressional seat.Murphy, who raised more money in the first two quarters than any other congressional challenger…
Gov. Rick Scott signed a death warrant to give a lethal juicing to the second inmate of his governorship — this time for 65-year-old triple murderer Oba Chandler.The execution is scheduled for 4 p.m. on November 15, but don’t be surprised if that doesn’t get delayed at some point.Scott has…
Here in Florida, we have a broad array of sunshine laws designed to promote open government. Local governments routinely have to disclose information simply because citizens ask for it. But apparently there’s one thing that can clamp the mouths of local officials for good: a private prison contractor asking nicely.Bill…
After being constantly lampooned over the past week since the news broke of his bill to repeal Florida’s ban on the drunken game of dwarf tossing, Rep. Ritch Workman would like a chance to explain himself.Shortly after Workman dropped House Bill 4063 in the hopper bill last Monday, people started…
Now that former Orlando Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson is trying to win his old congressional seat back, he took a pretty good shot at making himself relevant again on Friday by coming out in defense of the Occupy Wall Street protests.On HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher, Grayson gave an…
Gov. Rick Scott doesn’t always make appearances in Broward County, but when he does, the folks from “Pink Slip Rick” would prefer to be there.They’re the ones who hand-delivered pink slips to the governor as he played doughnut salesman during one of his “Let’s Get to Work” days, sent robocalls…
Gov. Rick Scott’s office issued a news release late last week to explain the retraction of his campaign promise to create 700,000 jobs on top of the state’s “normal growth” projection of 1 million jobs by 2017.It looks like he’s sticking to his new story, in which he claims he…
Amid the unfavorable weather that hovered over Fort Lauderdale last night, a couple of hundred people still gathered near the Broward Main Public Library to express their distaste, distrust, and disdain for the state of the country.There’s a common misconception that the Occupy movement is a reincarnation of the hippie…
One of Gov. Rick Scott’s main talking points during his campaign was his “7-7-7” plan, which he said would create 700,000 jobs on top of the projected growth of 1 million Florida jobs by 2017.With the statewide unemployment rate staying at 10.7 percent for the third straight month, the state…
UPDATE: As of 10:20 a.m., there are now 250 people who say they’re showing up on Saturday.Occupy Fort Lauderdale appears to be picking up steam — when we wrote Monday evening that the group announced its first meeting would be held on Saturday, there were about 20 or so people…
There’s been a common theme among this year’s GOP presidential candidates — firmly planting their lips on the buttcheeks of Sen. Marco Rubio and dropping his name as a potential running mate.If that’s a ploy to win Florida in a general election, it won’t help, according to survey results released…
Last night, Jon Stewart focused his beloved comic lens on the Florida GOP’s recent decision to move its presidential primary date up from March to January. The Daily Show host gleefully ripped the state a new one for having the audacity to seek more power over the electoral process. And yes,…
The SlutWalk movement is finally coming to South Florida.SlutWalk South Florida has started to develop its online presence, hand out fliers, and begin planning demonstrations to curb sexual assaults and the blame sometimes associated with sexual-assault victims.There’s no precise date set for South Florida’s first SlutWalk, but organizers say they’re…
Keith McHenry, founder of Food Not Bombs, who started off our cover story about the movement last month, has spent 30 years traveling around and serving free food at protests and uprisings. So it’s only natural that he’d be getting in on some of the “Occupy Wall Street” action that’s…
A town council member in Southwest Ranches has refused to talk to his constituents about town matters, citing a new ethics ordinance that was approved last Tuesday night by the Broward County Commission.Bill Di Scipio, a Southwest Ranches resident, had been trying to set up a meeting with council member…
Florida may have elected an antigay, antichoice tea partier as its chief executive, but there are still a few legislators out there on the other side. Rep. Scott Randolph (D-Orlando) recently filed The Competitive Workforce Act, which would bar businesses from discriminating against employees based on sexual orientation and gender…
It’s no surprise by any stretch of the imagination, but Gov. Rick Scott has finally confirmed to the News Service of Florida that he’s going to run for reelection in 2014.His announcement comes on the heels of being polled at the highest approval rating of his governorship — 37 percent.He’s…
