Many people who packed the Pembroke Pines City Commission chambers for a budget hearing last night were angry at political leaders they believed had failed them. Despite laying off 84 employees and outsourcing major city services, the city still faces a $27 million budget shortfall, and commissioners are considering raising…
Yes, you heard right. In the closing moments of that Capital News Service video, the reporter says that Broward County trailblazer George LeMieux “is leaving open the possibility that he’ll run for U.S. Senate in 2012,” when that darned Democrat Bill Nelson is up for reelection. Which means if his…
Seriously, that classic SNL sketch above is only slightly more absurd than the kind that is being circulated by Boca Raton’s state legislator and House leader, Adam Hasner. In tonight’s speech, Obama took on the “death panel” myth and the socialism myth and remembered to shave the Hitler mustache that…
As the Pembroke Pines City Commission prepares to vote tonight on more budget cuts for the cash-strapped suburb, city employees have reached a boiling point. “Our people have suffered enough,” says Jim Silvernale, spokesman for the local Federation of Public Employees.Already, at least 84 Pines workers have been laid off…
Citing a Marco Rubio campaign ad, St. Petersburg Times politics blog Buzz earlier today asked whether Charlie Crist had “pulled a McCain” — committing a tactical blunder that gives his opponent evidence that he’s out of touch and unfit to lead.Purely from the headline, Juice assumed that the paper was…
At tonight’s joint session of Congress, Florida will have two senators in the audience in a position to make good on a policy — health-care reform — that is the subject of tonight’s speech and that was a major part of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, for which a majority of…
Thanks for that, Smithers. Now that we’re in the midst of the public hearings on whether to build two new nuclear power plants on Turkey Point, Florida Power & Light is asking you to think of nuclear power as an adorable, avuncular, and perfectly harmless cartoon character.Keep Smilin’ Joe Fission…
I don’t know about you, but if I were planning to produce a radio talk show with a disgraced former Republican congressman whose pedophilic Instant Messages to a 16-year-old page had made headline news a mere three years ago, I don’t think I’d call my new radio program “Inside the…
We’ve followed the ups and downs of 70-year-old feminist/population-control activist/gadfly Joyce Tarnow for about as long as this paper has been in print. Tarnow first caught our attention when she ran an abortion clinic in Fort Lauderdale: We reported she occasionally wore a flak jacket to work and had managed…
Lake Worth politics have turned into a minefield. On one side, realtors and pro-development folks advocate fast growth; on the other, a progressive element (some, like bloggers Lynn Anderson and Wes Blackman, would call it radical element) plan community gardens, push for renewable energy, and practice grassroots advocacy. The latter…
Yesterday’s Health Care Forum at the Palm Beach County Government Center, sponsored by the Republican Party of Palm Beach County, was a fairly subdued affair. A total of two protesters turned up outside the center in support of Progressive Democrats of America: They held a banner favoring a single-payer system…
While we’re on the subject of desperate times calling for desperate health-care measures, recent studies have shown that Americans are increasingly relying on the internet to diagnose and treat their medical conditions. What’s more, a local academic has discovered that these Googlers are getting rotten advice:”My overall impression is that…
The first time I heard Chaz Stevens’ name, it was preceded by the words “Stay away from.” I was talking to a person involved in Deerfield Beach politics, and that person was concerned that my interest in the subject would lead to an encounter with the man behind the curtain…
It was supposed to be as easy as 1-2-3. At last Thursday evening’s budget meeting, Deerfield Beach Mayor Peggy Noland made it known that she was sick of working within the confines of the city’s ethics code. Vice Mayor Sylvia Poitier said the same. And Commissioner Joe Miller echoed their…
Let’s hope there’s not a Mexican version of Lou Dobbs ready to rage against all the Americans who may soon be tempted to go south of the border for health care. That article in the Arizona Republic quotes a retiree from Broward County who gives this ringing endorsement to IMSS, Mexico’s…
Deerfield Beach Commissioner Bill Ganz is entering his sixth month in office, and he still finds his colleagues unpredictable. He thought the city’s ethics code was safe. “I was as surprised and dismayed as anybody to find out it was on the agenda to be repealed,” he said this afternoon,…
A few hours before she takes her place at the dais and asks commissioners to strike down the Deerfield Beach ethics code, Mayor Peggy Noland rolled a shopping cart through the aisles of Winn-Dixie and spoke with Juice about why the code has to go. In short, because it’s a…
The statement below arrives courtesy Deerfield Beach blogger Bett Willett, a co-president of the Original Save Our Beach Committee, which has closed ranks to oppose the city commissioners’ apparent back-sliding on ethics reform. Willett asks other supporters to attend tonight’s meeting with paper plates that say “Ethics YES.”Although, let’s hope…
There’s your new, unelected U.S. senator, Florida, in his former role as pseudojournalist. I don’t throw that term around lightly. It’s just that in “Topic One” and “Topic Four,” our Broward-based correspondent George LeMieux has sources that can give us a huge helping of inside dirt — namely, himself and…
The editorial sections of major Florida newspapers are furious about Crist’s pick of George LeMieux for U.S. Senate. But in their rage — or maybe it’s modesty — they forgot to mention how complicit their papers are in LeMieux’s selection.After all, Crist’s office was playing by the book, releasing LeMieux’s…
On the day before the Deerfield Beach Commission will vote on whether to repeal its ethics code, Commissioner Joe Miller is the one wildcard.Past remarks make it possible to predict how the four other members of the commission will vote. Check out the minutes of the March 3 commission meeting,…
Judging by this agenda item for Tuesday’s meeting, Deerfield Beach commissioners are ready to fling their ethics code out the window after just two and a half months. The idea belongs to Mayor Peggy Noland, who needs an ethics code worse than Michael Beasley needs a Twitter editor.The paper-thin excuse…
