Our Florida legislators have some budget-cutting to do, but they also need to improve the state’s education system, which is fast becoming a national embarrassment. This will take some creativity. Republicans, as the majority party, you’re up.Adam Hasner, Republican from Delray Beach, called a news conference yesterday to herald his…
Susan Stanton was the city manager of Largo, Florida for 14 years until she announced she was becoming Steve Slanton. She was subsequently terminated. Stanton’s case made huge headlines two years ago. Now Stanton is a finalist for the city manager job in Lake Worth. According to a story in…
U.S. Senate candidate Congressman Kendrick Meek of Miami will be coming to Pompano Beach tomorrow morning to snag another labor endorsement.The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, AFL-CIO, with offices on South Andrews Boulevard, will officially back Meek’s bid for the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat to be…
Gil Kerlikowske, chief of the Seattle Police Department, was introduced to the media yesterday as the Obama administration’s nominee to lead the Office of Drug Control Policy. Meanwhile, his stepson Jeffrey sits in a Broward County jail cell.Jeffrey Kerlikowske, 39, of Coconut Creek, has a history of selling marijuana and…
Man, what a lame crop of Rush Limbaugh insults the national Democrats have selected as their finalists in the West Palm Beach billboard of hate campaign. “Americans Didn’t Vote for a Rush to Failure”Limbaugh will just say, “Well, a vote for Obama was the quickest way to failure, so technically…
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…
