Trevor Keezor broke his company’s rules. He was warned several times. Then he was fired. That should probably be the end of the story. But Mr. Keezor sees himself as a martyr, a spokesperson for Christians everywhere who aren’t allowed to write their own dress code policies and demand they…
At about the 2:40 mark of this Sun-Sentinel video, you’ll hear Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler complain about the lack of positive media coverage of the Broward County School Board. Then former Attorney General Bob Butterworth plays editor, questioning why the dailies didn’t give more coverage to some lame awards…
Is it the one that Rubio’s campaign released yesterday, seen below? Or is it the more controversial one that Rubio has denounced as “offensive” and “grotesque.” (He forgot, “hilarious.”) I’ve posted that video after the jump…
The Lake Worth elections slated for November 3rd just get weirder by the minute. As if the flap about Mayoral candidate Rene Varela’s role in the sales of wild dolphins to a marine park in Dubai weren’t scandal enough, now the Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition is claiming that one…
Olga Bichachi, a reporter for WPLG-TV (Channel 10) at least as recently as February 2008, has gone rogue! That’s her as part of a picket that took place last week outside her old studio in Hallandale Beach. She sounds pretty convincing — right up to the point where she starts…
Say this about young Broward County Republicans: They know a meal ticket when they see one. By my count, the three men who have the most crucial roles in getting Charlie Crist elected to the U.S. Senate are all from Broward.We know about George LeMieux, the former county GOP chair…
As we wait to learn more about the stabbings that occurred last night at the Ritz-Carlton in Manalapan, here’s an interesting account of a similar David Irving speaking engagement scheduled for last week in Jackson, Mississippi.It comes from a white nationalist website, whose group was going to host Irving at…
Remember last week’s ridiculous video of the Deerfield Beach Commission in action? It appears Vice Mayor Sylvia Poitier has exhausted the patience of a colleague or two, because we have confirmed that at least one commissioner is exploring the possibility of censuring Poitier.It would be a risky move. Poitier’s liable…
Tonight at 7, at a still undisclosed location in West Palm Beach, British author David Irving, much loved among white nationalists, will be giving a speech on Nazi history and signing copies of his book, Banged Up: Survival as a Political Prisoner in the 21st Century Europe.Seems that Irving is…
Now that suspended Broward School Board Member Beverly Gallagher has hired high-profile attorney David Bogenschutz to defend her against corruption charges, her future is looking brighter.This summer, Bogenschutz helped soften the blow of charges against another ethically-challenged female politician, former Palm Beach County Commissioner Mary McCarty.McCarty, who got nabbed for…
One of Broward County’s leading Republican activists, Ed Napolitano, is resigning from his leadership positions with the party, two weeks after leading a controversial trip with fellow Republicans to a gun range in Hallandale Beach. The Sun-Sentinel broke the story and has a copy of the letter that Napolitano sent…
Don’t be deceived by news of layoffs, foreclosures, bank failures, and tax hikes. South Florida’s economy isn’t suffering too badly. Take Calvin, Giordano & Associates, the Fort Lauderdale consulting firm that’s on track to break its own record with $25 million in revenue this year.President Dennis Giordano says the company…
As parents in the Palm Beach County School District tries to roll back Jeb Bush’s shameful legacy of FCAT drilling, the former Florida governor is roaming around, looking to get his voice heard, apparently to gauge interest in a 2012 run for president (though he’d never admit that).Bush made a…
That’s a video from this past April, which gives you some context for the briefing yesterday on Capitol Hill by SIECUS — the organization that promotes sex education and attacks the abstinence-only curricula that gained momentum during the Bush years.Obama’s election brought a halt to that momentum on a national…
Now that the U.S. Justice Department has committed — at least rhetorically — to an “efficient and rational use” of its enforcement powers against marijuana users and sellers, there’s money to be made. Maybe Commerce Online of West Palm Beach will emerge as a kind-of mountain cabbage Mastercard.The company, whose…
Thanks to Chaz Stevens for uploading this amazing video of last evening’s meeting of the Deerfield Beach City Commission, in which it finally awarded a winner in the bid for the restaurant space on the end city’s pier. But not without high drama. After the commissioners ranked the bidding restaurateurs,…
The best visits to tattoo studios are usually spontaneous, but Hollywood Sen. Eleanor Sobel is not your typical patron. She has scheduled an appointment at 10 a.m. Monday at Stevie Moon Tattoo NE 26th Street in Fort Lauderdale. There she’ll meet her foe-turned-friend, Stevie Moon, who earlier this year led…
Another conservative U.S. Senator has defied party leaders to give an endorsement to Marco Rubio over Charlie Crist. And check out the statement by Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, particularly this part:”Like me, Marco believes that the federal government works best when it returns dollars, decisions and freedom to our local…
Watch out, boaters. There are plenty of signs like the one to the left, warning you about those adorable manatees, who have a way of wrapping their fat asses around boat propellers. But if you’re cruising near the Fort Lauderdale shore you may be faced with a choice between hitting…
Here’s your look at what’s in today’s news:Dwayne Blake of Belle Glade is in jail after allegedly shooting an undercover operative who was taping conversations with Blake for a narcotics investigation. [Palm Beach Post]H1N1 vaccinations have started in Broward and Palm Beach, with people aged 2 to 49 first in…
Crazy, charming Marco Rubio — but you’re serious about the Jets vaccine, right? Do NOT toy with us, boy wonder. Anyway, video of his appearance one week ago at the Broward GOP Women’s Club, whom he charmed as surely as the Palm Beach Republicans who would give him an overwhelming…
Super Democratic awesome-man Rep. Alan Grayson, from Orlando, is like the a left wing version of Joe Wilson, but slicker and funnier. After proposing a a federal paid-vacation law and his hilarious rants against the Republican health care “plan”–Plan A: don’t get sick, Plan B: if you do get sick,…
