Few activists in South Florida have had as much fun attacking public officials as Chaz Stevens. But now that he’s become a public official himself, Stevens has come under attack.At Wednesday evening’s meeting of the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority — Stevens’ second since being appointed to the board last month…
Hallandale Beach Vice Mayor Bill Julian says he was “not concerned” about reports of an ethically dubious contract between City Manager Mike Good and a local real estate agent because those reports did not appear in the Miami Herald or Sun-Sentinel. They appeared here in Juice and in a print…
Hallandale Beach Vice Mayor Bill Julian says that he considers Mike Good a “friend” but that the city manager’s absenteeism made it necessary for the commission to find another person for the job.At the meeting yesterday, Julian pointed to documents that showed that in 2010, Good only made it to…
Larry Deetjen, the Deerfield Beach city manager during the turbulent reign of Mayor Al Capellini, got into a fight early on the morning of May 12 in Oak Lawn, Illinois, the suburban Chicago city where Deetjen holds the same title.It all started innocuously enough. Deetjen was watching a hockey game…
If you haven’t already seen this week’s Meek campaign ad, get ready to laugh so hard that you fall out of your chair and can’t find your way back from the 1950s again. That’s apparently what Meek’s campaign staff is doing, anyway, because every time I call them, I get…
During last night’s Hallandale Beach Commission meeting, Vice Mayor Bill Julian cited documents indicating that over the past six months, City Manager Mike Good came to city hall on only about half the work days. That spotty attendance record made it hard to meet with city staff, business owners and other…
Hallandale Beach has reached what appears to be an agreement in principle on the terms of City Manager Mike Good’s dismissal. Juice has learned that Good recently responded to a letter by the city attorney that detailed the terms of Good’s severance agreement.In his letter Good said he wanted to…
Deerfield Beach is in the midst of a forensic audit and the state prosecutor is reviewing a report that found suspicion of fraud in the way the city’s Community Development Division doles out funds from state and federal housing programs. Could that be the reason that Deerfield Beach Commissioner Sylvia…
It’s been a while since we checked in with the Youtubin’ mega-Christians at Coral Ridge Ministries. For once, I find myself agreeing (mostly) with their take on the cartoon controversy last month on Comedy Central.Of course, that controversy involved a South Park episode that satirized the world’s religions — including…
Dr. William Saxton is sitting at a Starbucks in West Boca Raton, clutching a bulging black briefcase. But he’s having trouble concentrating on our conversation. He keeps looking around for a better table. “I’d prefer to have more privacy,” he says. Saxton is the founder and chairman of Citizens for…
It’s not clear where congressional candidate Allen West is speaking — was it at yesterday’s protest against the Imam’s invocation in Pompano Beach? UPDATE: If the commenter below is correct, this speech happened last year; but then why was it posted to Youtube today?Wherever he was, West didn’t disappoint his…
Hanley Ramirez is acting like a diva following his being benched last night for an error. Check that; it wasn’t the error so much as Ramirez jogging casually after the ball he kicked into the outfield, while opposing base-runners were hustling toward home plate.Now he’s in a tiff with the…
Organizers of Deerfield Beach’s Mango Festival will make an appearance at this evening’s commission meeting in hopes they can convince city officials to give them $25,000 toward reviving the summer soiree of music and food.But those organizers are likely to hear the same caveats they heard last year when they…
Jeff Greene’s ad campaign launched today, and despite his billionaire status, Pixar animations were left on the cutting room floor. Also absent from the two spots: Greene’s “I took on Wall Street and won” slogan. With the campaign heating up, it looks like our badboy is reforming. “He’s starting with…
As you can see in this video, Crist is looking mighty confident on the campaign trail. In past public appearances, Crist has tried to finesse the question of how he’s handling the money from Republican donors. But this answer — “I’m keepin’ it!” — works a lot better for him…
After last week’s Community Relations Board meeting in Lake Worth, where a reading group from the Night Heron Grassroots Activism Center presented a PowerPoint lecture on hate groups operating in Lake Worth, I posted a couple of items on the meeting here and here.I spent a lot of time last…
Normally, a minority-dominated low-income neighborhood like South Hollywood would have reason to cheer the arrival of a new school, especially one that offers a departure from the mind-numbing, teach-the-test curriculum that prevails at other public schools.But though the newly named Beachside Montessori Village school is located in South Hollywood, it…
Martin Menter, a retired salesman, started working for the U.S. Census Bureau in late April. About 50 percent of Broward residents did not return their census form earlier this year. Menter is one of the people paid to knock on doors, trying to gather all the information the government needs…
While he was a Republican Senate candidate, Charlie Crist didn’t have an inner circle so much as a triangle. And all three points on that triangle were from Broward County. George LeMieux, the governor’s former chief of staff, whom Crist appointed to the U.S. Senate last August; Eric Eikenberg, who…
The hard part of being the independent in a three-way race is that you can’t always play it down the middle politically. Likely Democratic candidate for Senate Kendrick Meek is trying to force Charlie Crist’s hand: Does Crist support the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan or not?In his Washington…
Even a board specifically appointed to promote harmony and mediate opposing viewpoints has a rough time getting residents — or themselves, for that matter — to see eye-to-eye in Lake Worth. Harsh words were exchanged Monday night when the Lake Worth Community Relations Board heard from activists about local hate…
Joy Cooper is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the most erratic political figures in South Florida, and now the Hallandale Beach mayor has picked a fight with Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom.Rodstrom was one of the commissioners who two weeks ago voted against a controversial $500 million proposal…
