That’s video from outside yesterday’s Tom Rooney town hall in Stuart. In the ongoing battle over what side of the health care debate is more civilized, this is the Zapruder film. A reform proponent, apparently, is dressed in camouflage and allegedly spits at one of the tea party types he…
Broward Health Commissioner Robert Bernstein has cast himself as a watchdog for waste at the county’s public health-care district. But in the months since he led the charge to terminate the hospital district’s two lead attorneys, questions remain about whether his motives were complicated by Republican special interests, such as…
Before Marc Goldstone was fired as general counsel of the North Broward Hospital District in mid-May, he had expressed concern that his job would be threatened if he followed through on the district’s request to reduce its billings to outside law firms — in particular, the firm of Gray-Robinson.The firm,…
Just two business days before the North Broward Hospital District board was to consider spending $2 million to sponsor an exhibit at Fort Lauderdale’s Museum of Discovery and Science, one commissioner was vowing to embarrass museum staff. This based on his obligation to “protect taxpayers” against a potentially foolhardy investment.It…
It’s a pity that not all commenters are as classy as those here at Juice. I’m reminded of this disparity after looking hopefully toward the comments field in this NBC6 Miami report about Damon Weaver, the 11-year-old African American boy from poverty-ravaged Pahokee who just might be the youngest person…
Yesterday in Boca Raton, demonstrating for health care reform. Now there’s a thought! Also, interesting strategy not to mob a town hall meeting and chant about how we should deprive immigrants of health care. Now compare that political participation with the style that health care opponents practiced this week in…
Yes, that Larry Deetjen — the former Deerfield Beach city manager who was practically joined at the hip with mayor-turned-felony-suspect Al Capellini. Despite rumors that Deetjen would be swooping back around to take his old job back from Mike Mahaney — Mayor Peggy Noland doesn’t like the way Mahaney parks…
In a memo she wrote in April 2008, three weeks before resigning as general counsel of the North Broward Hospital District, Laura Seidman alleged that Commissioner Maureen Jaeger “misused her public office for her personal agenda.”Jaeger, Rebecca Stoll and Joseph Cobo are the three Broward Health commissioners who Seidman accused…
Shortly before Laura Seidman was pressured to resign as general counsel of Broward County’s public hospital district last year, she expressed concerns that three of the district’s commissioners were “using their public offices and powers improperly and for their own purposes.” She named Commissioners Rebecca Stoll and Maureen Jaeger, both…
Last weekend, greyhound racing was suspended at Twin River, the only active track in Rhode Island. The track is bankrupt, in part it says, because of the cost of dog racing. The state assembly there is trying to revive the moribund industry, but the track has let go all 27…
Rick Lemack, who finished a close second one year ago in the Democratic Primary for Broward Sheriff, is now one of five candidates to be police chief of Gainseville. Lemack was previously an assistant chief in the Hollywood Police Department and an assistant city manager.But in the year since that…
Governments all over the country are slashing their budgets to survive the New Depression. Last month, the city of Pembroke Pines took the drastic step of axing its entire building department — laying off at least 33 employees, and outsourcing building inspection duties to a private firm. City leaders said…
Barbra Stern, the daughter of Democrat strategist Judy Stern, today followed through on her long-rumored campaign for Florida House district in Fort Lauderdale vacated by Ellyn Bodganoff, who’s running for Florida Senate. Barbra Stern was originally a Democrat but she had a fling with the Republican Party that ended just…
Nothing secedes like excess. We here at the Juice thinks it makes sense: Palm Beach town councilman William Diamond urged his fellow confederates at yesterday’s council meeting to consider seceding from Palm Beach County and forming a new county of its very own. Diamond argued that the playground of the…
The government of the United Arab Emirates was circling Herve Jaubert, growing increasingly certain that he was one among a cast of unscrupulous businessmen from the West whose collective greed brought an end to the economic boom in Dubai.But before Jaubert could be arrested, he abandoned his villa and fleet…
George Edmunds, the acting director of Deerfield Beach’s Parks and Recreation Department, has been ordered to attend a meeting with the city’s Human Resources Department to review the mistakes he made last week in disciplining a city worker for failing to greet Mayor Peggy Noland.That meeting comes at the behest…
A series of internal memos recently made public by the Deerfield Beach City Clerk’s office show that Mayor Peggy Noland denied being offended by the lack of a greeting from a city parks worker last week. But those denials are at odds with the memo by Deerfield Beach’s parks director,…
It’s been a brutal week (year?) for Deerfield Beach Mayor Peggy Noland, but the weeks to come may bring a new rounds of bad publicity. According to a well-placed source at city hall, a city commissioner is likely to bring a motion at the August 18 meeting censuring Noland for…
Yes, we’ll call it Kleinstock: The groaning / chanting droves of patriots who monopolized yesterday’s town hall meeting that Congressman Ron Klein’s staff has each month with constituents.Of course, you can’t trust the liberal media to report accurately on that meeting. So until Fox News launches a bureau with an…
As was widely expected (and dreaded, in conservative quarters) the U.S. Senate gave its approval to Barack Obama’s appointment for U.S. Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor. Florida’s Sen. Mel Martinez was one of just nine Republicans to cast a vote in favor of the appointment. That’s because he fell head-over-heels in…
Good luck finding the full, unedited video of Tuesday’s barnburner of a Deerfield Beach commission meeting. The one currently posted on the city’s website is only a fraction — the uncontroversial fraction — of what transpired that night. So says the blogger who claims to be a victim of those…
The funny thing is, Sylvia Poitier knows that she gave her nemesis, Chaz Stevens, exactly what he wanted. But Deerfield Beach’s vice mayor still couldn’t resist. Because Stevens gets to tee off on her at his blog, Acts of Sedition, and her weapon is the commissioner remarks, the freestyle portion…
