Oh no! We’ve been dissed by a Forbes list! The magazine popular among rich old people is saying that South Florida is lousy place to be a rich old person. It ranked the Miami – Fort Lauderdale area 29th as a region to retire, blaming the “battered real estate and…
Richard “Rick” Lemack was this close (642 votes) to becoming the Democratic nominee for Broward Sheriff. In August 2008, the ex-assistant police chief and assistant city manager of Hollywood, Lemack lost to Scott Israel, who then lost to Al Lamberti. We told you last month that Lemack was a finalist…
And that’s bad for Ben Graber, the former Broward mayor and county commissioner who tried to make hay with Robert Wexler’s cocaine joke on The Colbert Report and who has a nasty batch of ads that he ran during a bitter primary campaign in 2008. Ads like the one below…
With Broward politicians and contractors in hot water over bribery allegations today, it’s not surprising that Governor Crist has called for a statewide corruption Grand Jury. According to the Sun-Sentinel: Citing an apparent “culture of corruption” taking root in South Florida, Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday called for a statewide…
State Sen. Ted Deutch, whose district overlaps with U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler’s congressional district, just sent out a news release heralding an “important campaign announcement.” Sounds like he’s going to announce his candidacy for the Wexler seat.The Deutch news conference is for 3:30 at his home in Boca Raton.Your move,…
West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will be profiled on tonight’s edition of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, which begins in about an hour, at 6:30. The segment on Wasserman Schultz’s surviving breast cancer and her legislative cause against the disease will air toward the end of the…
This week’s New Times feature details the battle between forward-thinking urban activists and the City of West Palm Beach over how to develop a blighted section of West Palm Beach, Northwood Village. That battle centered around whether or not Publix could be wooed to the neighborhood’s planned anchor site. The…
In Barack Obama’s presidential election, Robert Wexler was one of those linchpins. As an early supporter, he convinced a great many wary Jewish voters in South Florida that Obama would be a friend of Israel, as Obama himself promised. It was crucial to winning Florida.But since Obama won election, he’s…
The private, Fort Lauderdale-base consulting firm Calvin, Giordano & Associates plays a big role in providing essential government services in Broward County. As the Juice has reported, the firm has a monopoly in the City of West Park — doing everything from planning and engineering to running the city website…
The St. Petersburg Times and Miami Herald teamed up for an article in yesterday’s editions that voiced concerns among Democrats that their leading senatorial candidate, Congressman Kendrick Meek, isn’t “high-profile” enough to beat Charlie Crist. It’s a strange moment to raise that question — it appears to have been prompted…
With an ethics scandal rocking the Democratic powers of Broward County — and just a few days after a Democratic mayoral candidate for one Broward city was arrested for pulling a gun on his daughter, the Democratic mayor of Broward County — the Republican Party may have been looking pretty…
[jump] racing ended completely. “As tracks fold one by one across the United States, it becomes less and less clear why the state of Florida continues to suffer the cruelty of dog racing,” Grey2K’s president, Christine Dorchak, told me. “Of the 24 remaining dog tracks nationwide, 13 are hosted by…
Reading this post on Pulp about how Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter sprinted 400 yards to the home of lobbyist Michael Moskowitz, I tried to imagine the scene that must have taken place in Moskowitz’s Parkland home. And it conjured up the above scene from Michael Clayton. Substitute a dented Jaguar…
Charlie Crist continues to lead in polls, but former House Speaker Marco Rubio has all the momentum in the battle for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. During a quarter when he appeared on the cover of the National Review, dominated straw polls, and received high praise from GOP luminaries…
The City of Hollywood rarely gets a chance to shine as a beacon of political sanity. But after a strange, months-long tussle between dragon boaters, a lone kayaker, and Broward County commissioners, the scrappy city now looks like a hero.A dragon boating team known as the Blazing Paddles was threatened…
This summer, the Juice raised ethical questions about the City of Pembroke Pines’ decision to outsource its building department to a private, Fort Lauderdale-based company, Calvin, Giordano & Associates. Because the firm also handles multimillion-dollar engineering projects for the city, it could face serious conflicts of interest when reviewing building…
Late Friday, one day after staffers at Deerfield Beach City Hall met to discuss bids by local restaurateurs for the space at the end of the city’s pier, JB’s on the Beach has withdrawn from the competition.Of course, in August, JB’s won that bid only to have it thrown out…
That’s some recently posted footage from the 25-year-old heavy metal band’s appearance this weekend at Revolution. I’m not fluent in “GWAR,” but I’ll give this a try: An Obama figure who gets his head torn off and spits geysers of blood through his neck means that a heavy metal band…
If the governor’s wife holds a cancer-awareness event and no one is there to witness it, did it really happen?Yesterday, Carole Crist spoke at a luncheon at the Brazilian Court Hotel in Palm Beach. Her goal was to raise awareness about ovarian cancer. But only about a dozen people attended…
Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss has a small problem with political scandal. Four years ago he was scolded for missing an intelligence briefing on the Iraq war to golf with Tiger Woods. Then last fall he released an unfortunate campaign commercial in which he appeared to be groping the chest of…
Quick! Someone find Milagros Serrano! This article says she voted in upstate New York — even though she’s lived in Hollywood the last two years.The signature attributed to Serrano on the ballot looks nothing like her signature from a voter registration card filed several years ago at the Board of…
