[jump] Pat Macabi, owner of Macabi Cigar Bar in Fort Lauderdale, has mixed feelings on the new laws. While Macabi is pleased cigars aren’t being taxed like “dirty cigarettes,” he says the system is too convoluted and confusing for retailers. “But they’re right not to tax cigar smokers as much,” he…
That’s a screen grab from Fox News’ recent coverage of disgraced Gov. Mark Sanford. Notice the single letter next to Sanford’s name: “D” as in Democrat.In fact, Sanford is a Republican. Now, I understand that typos happen — this blog being the exception to the rule. But this is an…
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyU.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio scored two big endorsements this week, plus the criticism of from one of those Democrat-leaning MSNBC talking heads, which kinda counts as an endorsement. About 1:10 in the video above, Hardball host Chris Matthews…
Neither side wants to admit it, but we South Floridians have something in common with philandering South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford: namely, a South Florida residence, however fleeting. A Fort Lauderdale native, Sanford prefers that voters in his current state regard him as a Carolina farm boy. Before he ever…
Tension nearly boiled over at this morning’s meeting of the North Broward Hospital District’s Board as commissioners broached the touchy topic of the district’s next general counsel. The seven-member panel appears divided over whether to speed that process or slow it down, given the flux at the position over the…
Well, it had all the makings of a political hit. The special meeting. The late-arriving addendum to the agenda. Deerfield Beach City Manager Mike Mahaney had two commissioners who support him, two who did not. Then a swing vote in Vice Mayor Sylivia Ferguson (formerly Poitier), who some said was…
You’re right about one thing, Joyce Kaufman: The mainstream media are not likely to take the congressional candidacy of Dennis Lamb seriously. Here’s my best effort: Dennis Lamb? Seriously?This Hollywood man — who either has no political experience or simply forgot to mention it on his new website — is…
Mike Mahaney, the Deerfield Beach city manager who has been straddling a political fault line since the March 10 municipal election, is in danger of being fired at tonight’s special meeting of the Deerfield Beach City Commission, according to a source.There’s no mention of Mahaney on the agenda released in…
Deerfield Beach’s vice mayor, formerly known as Sylvia Poitier, is now going with her maiden name, Ferguson. The move, which she mentioned in her remarks at last week’s meeting, as seen above, comes amid her claiming to have been “defamed” by Acts of Sedition blogger Chaz Stevens, who yesterday filed…
One of the best parts of being Florida governor is access to a jet with which to indulge your most sudden, insatiable geographical impulses.For example, New Times’ eagerly anticipated Best Of Broward/Palm Beach issue hit this website on June 11. (Memorize that date — we’ll get back to it.) The…
Iran’s Foreign Ministry is trying to lure the U.S. into a bigger role in that nation’s tempestuous election aftermath by accusing Americans of egging on protests that sparked violence this weekend. [Spokesman Hassan] Qashqavi drew comparisons to American election results. “No one encouraged the American people to stage a riot”…
Sure, President Obama’s ears are big, but he’s got a helluva lot of people competing for their attention. If you have a message you hope will make its way to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., your best bet may be to attend Monday’s “Listening Tour” stop in Plantation. The prez himself won’t…
A source with knowledge of these things tells Juice that Deerfield Beach City Hall has decided on a new policy regarding video presentations at its commission meetings: Since pornography sometimes appears in video form, and since the city’s government does not trust one particular citizen’s video submissions, it will henceforth…
Sen. Jim DeMint from South Carolina is one of the most conservative members of Congress, but it’s still something of a coup that he endorsed the most conservative contender in Florida’s Senate race, Marco Rubio.That’s because in doing so, DeMint is defying the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which endorsed Charlie…
Judging by Marc Goldstone’s email inbox, the week of May 11 began like any other. That was a Monday, and the general counsel for the North Broward Hospital District exchanged emails with CEO Frank Nask about attending a health care convention the first week of June. But by Tuesday May…
Last night the Deerfield Beach City Commission conducted a seminar on how not to deal with a buzzing gadfly. Chaz Stevens was deprived his chance to address the commission (by video), he inspired his nemesis Vice Mayor Sylvia Poitier to climb down from the dais to address the commission as…
As Hallandale Beach inches closer to cutting a big check to build its own wastewater treatment plant, Commissioner Keith London asks that his objections be duly noted in the historical record. For starters, London objects to a $150,000 study that tells the commission what it already knows: that the plant…
On the agenda for tonight’s meeting of the Deerfield Beach City Commission, under the heading “Written Requests,” there looms an ominous entry: Chaz Stevens will address the city’s elected leaders on “myriad topics.” Among the myriad topics posted recently on Stevens’ blog, Acts of Sedition, there’s a densely technical critique…
I hope the people behind the April 27 Free Speech Summit in Boca Raton were watching this weekend’s protests in Tehran. Being free with speech in that Iranian city means risking a police baton to the chops, or worse. These were Muslims — thousands upon thousands of them — bravely…
For the past month, the North Broward Hospital District has been wrestling with two seemingly unrelated scandals: the corruption investigation of Commissioner Joseph Cobo and the sudden firing of the district’s general counsel, Marc Goldstone, and his lieutenant, Joe Truhe.But it seems inevitable that these two stories will merge. The…
It’s strange to be astonished at the news that this county’s mayor actually gave an interview, but so it goes in Broward. Stacy Ritter has been refusing interviews with reporters for much of 2009, in vain hopes that she can keep her associations with con man Joel Steinger out of…
Republicans like Newt Gingrich are pretty sure that Sonia Sotomayor is racist against white men, but just to make sure, the U.S. Senate’s only Hispanic Republican, Mel Martinez, went in for a closer look. As you can see in the video above, the Florida senator exchanged some awkward Spanish with…
