Boca Raton has its own dynamic duo in Tallahassee. There’s State Rep. Adam Hasner, the Republican. And there’s Sen. Ted Deutch, the Democrat. Based on party affiliation, who would you suppose is the one who wants to play hardball with Iran? And which one is a champion of the electric…
Not 24 hours after Peggy Noland won the Deerfield Beach mayoral race, she’s already got a scandal on her hands. And no, I’m not talking about her son’s election eve arrest on charges of stealing campaign signs of other mayoral candidates. Guess that should be “scandals,” plural.Multiple sources tell Juice…
When he answered my phone call, Aslan Lamarche speaks in a voice that’s shaky, nervous. He’s slow to speak and takes long pauses until he’s sure he knows the voice on the other end. Lamarche knows that any call — especially one from a number inside the United States –…
8:31 Welcome to the Juice muni elections liveblog. I will be doing the play-by-play. At my left is the color commentator, a highly flatulent greyhound who somehow managed to cast a ballot (for Al Capellini, natch) and has been flaunting her “My Vote Counted” sticker to all the other mutts…
Oh, it’s mighty tempting to go cruise the election night party circuit, but I’ve learned the hard way that venturing more than 50 feet away from my laptop causes some news bomb to go off. So I’ll be here, tonight, liveblogging the election returns. Polls close at 7, so check…
Finally, the end of the municipal election cycle is upon us. A few races we’ll be watching today:In Fort Lauderdale, we’ve got runoffs in three commission districts, which means that a majority of the city’s governing body will be elected today, joining mayor-elect Jack Seiler and Commissioner Charlotte Rodstrom, both…
It would be one thing if a South Florida paper was heralding U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek as the frontrunner in the U.S. Senate’s Democratic primary for 2010. It’s a far more auspicious thing that a Tampa Bay paper is making that claim, albeit with some hesitation. Along with Orlando, Jacksonville…
… silent Muslim? State Rep. Adam Hasner kinda freaked out when he learned that followers of the Islamic faith were going to visit Tallahassee, where he works. Also, these people were going to talk.It seems that in order to face down this menace, the Delray Beach Republican wants to organize…
That’s what the AP is reporting, citing a motion filed by prosecutors in his case…
This may come as a surprise to those who rely on the Deerfield Beach Dispatch for all their news, but the city’s ex-mayor will not be cleared, as that paper predicted in a front-page headline last month. At least, not yet. A Broward judge denied Al Capellini’s motion to dismiss…
This week, even his most ardent haters had to be stunned at Rush Limbaugh’s remarkable political sway. The conservative radio host, who broadcasts from a “bunker” in Palm Beach, got an “Obama bump” when the prez dissed him publicly, casually remarking that Republicans ought to stop listening to his show…
Hey, Democratic donors of Florida! Guess how your political party has decided to spend some of your hard-earned donations? If you guessed “Buy a Florida billboard with which to cast aspersions at Rush Limbaugh,” then you are psychic, or merely a reader of Wonkette.Here is the Democratic Party web page…
We have never seen Earl Rynerson shoot a moose from a helicopter or put lipstick on a pig, but the local businessman reminds us of deposed veep candidate Sarah Palin if only because he simply won’t leave the limelight. He may have lost the election for Fort Lauderdale mayor in…
That is the implicit message from our new president to our new director of the Federal Emergency Management Administration, W. Craig Fugate, whose appointment was announced today by the Obama White House. In his eighth year as the director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, Fugate was a Jeb Bush…
A display case at a Barnes & Noble in Coral Gables. If you don’t know the answer, you’re a racist. Barnes and Noble corporate has issued an apology, though it sounds like the local store management is blaming a customer.From time to time customers will move titles from one area…
There has never been a female leader of the Florida Senate’s Democratic Caucus — and there won’t be till 2010, when Sen. Nan Rich, the Weston Democrat, assumes the role. She will get the formal designation at a press conference in Tallahassee at 10:30 this morning.”It’s long overdue,” said Rich…
OK, they cook up some zany ideas over there at the Florida Progressive Coalition Blog, but this one takes the cake: To challenge the otherwise-inevitable Charlie Crist victory in the 2010 U.S. Senate race, blogger Mark Weaver is casting Miami Beach resident celebrity Matt Damon in the role of Democratic…
Head out to the sidewalk of Hollywood’s portion of Federal Highway in the wee hours of the morning, whip out $500, and ask one of the suggestively dressed young ladies what that gives you.You’re liable to get a response very similar to the one that Hallandale Beach Democrat Rep. Joe…
I caught bit of flak earlier in this local election cycle for focusing more on the background of Fort Lauderdale candidates than on the “issues.” But really! The candidates’ backgrounds are important factors in their fitness to govern, and they also happen to be the most clear-cut differences. That is,…
The Deerfield Beach Dispatch is a thinly veiled propaganda rag allegedly “published as a public service,” assuming that what’s good for ex-mayor Al Capellini is good for the public. It is not to be confused with another thinly veiled propaganda rag called the Deerfield Beach Observer, which last week presided…
Deerfield Beach’s ex-mayor, aspiring future mayor, and apparent master of suspense, Al Capellini, says he is marrying some woman. Who? That’s for him to know and us to find out. Let’s cobble together the clues, shall we?For starters, we can rule out the swimming instructor that Capellini was courting in…
South Florida is getting a nice juicy cut of Washington’s favorite dish — pork! Specifically, $183 million in funding for Everglades restoration. It’s part of a $410 billion spending bill that will also loosen travel restrictions to Cuba and pay for expansion of the Museum of Discovery and Science in…
