It’s hard to watch the footage of injured, homeless Haitians without remembering the desperate Katrina survivors on the rooftops of New Orleans. Soon, the Katrina refugees were taken in by sympathetic citizens across the United States. But South Florida is no Houston. Our Haitian neighbors routinely drown trying to get…
U.S. aid workers are pretty busy today, what with Haiti experiencing apocalyptic conditions and all. But the coordinators of that incredibly complex and chaotic rescue effort surely have enough time to chat with our Broward-born Sen. George LeMieux, who wants to learn about their effort. Otherwise, he won’t be able…
Leave it to that old and ornery quote machine Alcee Hastings to bust up the scrum of politicians descending on Haiti. In a statement that the Central Broward Congressman just released, he opened with the usual buzzwords like “sorrow” and “tragic,” but then he gracefully stepped out of the way…
Young Andrew Perez is a bit like the canary in the coal mine. The Plantation native was hired three years ago, as an 18-year-old intern at Rothstein Rosenfeldt & Adler, working there for the past three summers. He swears he once remarked to another associate at the firm that he…
Charlie Crist juggled his schedule so he could fly down to Miami-Dade, where a press conference will be staged to comfort the Haitian people. But however little Crist has to lose in his Senate race against Marco Rubio, still he had better be careful about dashing toward ground zero, Giuliani-style,…
A week after he disclosed his intention to fire the North Broward Hospital District CEO Frank Nask, Commissioner Robert Bernstein is now demanding to know how a Nask associate is being paid roughly twice what that position paid just four years ago.That associate is Deborah Breen, the district’s vice president…
It’s hard to fathom, but some dishy new campaign tell-all book casts Florida Gov. Charlie Crist as a treacherous, ruthlessly self-interested politician looking to sell his endorsement in the 2008 presidential campaign to whatever Republican promised to pay him the most political capital in return.Yup, that sounds like our Charlie.The…
What better place to promote a new Justice Department task force against financial fraud than South Florida? Specifically, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder gave his speech this afternoon at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches, which staged a luncheon in his honor at the Kravis Center. In the speech,…
Among the many problems at the North Broward Hospital District (a pending criminal corruption investigation, a pending internal investigation for fraud, to name a couple), the district’s board currently has an attendance problem. The kind that only Gov. Charlie Crist can fix.The governor appoints the seven members of the board…
It’s a scary thought, but that’s exactly the headline New York Times Magazine chose for its massive piece on the race between Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist.As a portrait of Crist, it’s masterful. The governor’s obsequious way of talking about “the people” who elected him governor. His maddening talent for…
On January 15, the Deerfield Beach City Commission will have a special session to vote on whether to fire its city manager of three years, Mike Mahaney. That motion was brought at Tuesday’s raucous meeting (video here). This afternoon, I spoke with the maker of the motion, Commissioner Bill Ganz.”If…
Citing “unnamed sources” in the North Broward Hospital District, Commissioner Robert Bernstein has told Juice that two of his colleagues — Commissioners Joseph Cobo and Mike Fernandez — will not attend the district’s January 27 meeting and that their likely motive is to avoid a vote on Bernstein’s motion to…
Mayor Peggy Noland is walking around Deerfield Beach today, chances are she’s got a big grin on her face. That’s because she’s close to finishing a task she’s been working on for nearly a year: the termination of City Manager Mike Mahaney. (Video here, on Chaz Stevens’ Acts of Sedition.]”In…
In this evening’s meeting of the Deerfield Beach City Commission, officials took an initial step toward terminating Mike Mahaney as their city manager, a post he’s held for nearly three years.The motion was made by Commissioner Bill Ganz, who told his colleagues that he’d discussed the matter earlier that day…
Let’s not get too carried away with the celebration for our soon-to-be cheaper trash bills. We had been paying $98.50 per ton for trash. And now Broward residents will pay $61.75 per ton. That’s because we’ve finally paid off the bonds for the two incinerators, which are so huge that…
In a Florida Republican Party in which Charlie Crist is a mere mortal, there can be no saving his handpicked party chair, Jim Greer. The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that Greer will resign his leadership post in advance of a party meeting on Saturday in Orlando, where he was likely…
Brad Meltzer is the bestselling author of The Book of Fate, so his predictions should not be taken lightly. U.S. News & World Report rounded up him and others among America’s public intellectuals to get their perspective on what would happen in 2010. Meltzer’s crystal ball imagines a right winger’s…
Broward County, a longtime bastion of Democratic politics, is under siege — not by Republicans, mind you, but by their indefatigable libertarian wing, the Tea Party. Don’t believe me? Then watch the video below, apparently shot by an Austrian economist and tourist who is fascinated by the Tea Party’s growth…
As you can see from the video above, this year’s pro-Israel rally in downtown Fort Lauderdale did not attract last year’s batch of counterprotesting, virulently anti-Semite Muslims. Just a bunch of like-minded people furious over the Obama administration’s handling of terrorism threats and diplomatic policies in the Middle East.The rally…
Davie Town Council member Susan Starkey says she never said “Jews try to convert everyone,” as alleged by activist Joe Kaufman, of the Coral Springs-based Americans Against Hate.The exchange occurred December 18 between Starkey and Jeff Rubinoff, at the holiday party of the Davie / Cooper Republican Club, of which…
Here’s a radio interview that must be heard to be believed: That’s Andy Martin, who used to be a constantly campaigning candidate in Palm Beach County and has since taken his constant campaigning to Illinois, where he’s a candidate for U.S. Senate.As you can hear for yourself, the interview jumps…
One year ago, this ugly scene happened in downtown Fort Lauderdale, as pro-Israel demonstrators clashed with Muslim activists: And in just a few minutes, the South Floridians for the Safety and Security of Israel are staging another rally, in the same location, near the federal courts building on Broward Boulevard.A…
