Check it out. Buddy Nevins reports that Sunrise City Attorney Stuart Michelson is actually saving the city legal fees, possibly even justifying his $432,000 contract.You may remember that Michelson took lots of flak en route to his new position, and deservedly so. Here’s a guy who had represented two commissioners…
Early next month public schools across Florida will have to swallow yet another budget cut, state school officials announced. It’ll be two percent, but that’s just a warm-up for the 15 percent public schools can expect next year.So, Broward Teachers Union, keep those pigs handy. By 2010 you just might…
So what’s the over/under on turnout for today’s Fort Lauderdale muni elections? Tim Smith seems to think it’s 10 percent, and that sounds about right. I suspect there’s some voter fatigue from the two-year presidential campaign that ended last November. I’ll bet voters — especially the elderly ones who turn…
Barack went to the wrong Fort, obviously, but whatever. Here’s live video of him telling Floridians how much he hopes to stimulate them. .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height:…
Like many nonprofits that depend on government funding, the Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions is facing cuts. The organization that focuses on prenatal and infant health may have 22 percent trimmed from its 2009 budget. Unlike other nonprofits, however, the organization has proposed a solution. Healthy Start recently wrote to…
FAU administrators, looking to cut costs during a tight budget year, have apparently decided to shut down the university’s Women’s Studies Center and related master’s degree program. The affected women did not take the news lightly. In a petition currently making the rounds, supporters assert that shutting down these programs…
I got a robo-call yesterday afternoon from Jack Seiler’s mayoral campaign instructing me to please ignore an 11th hour smear, or something like that. (I was driving when the call came so I couldn’t jot notes.)Seiler’s clearly the frontrunner, and so he’s smart to keep his guard up, I suppose…
Remember when I told you that a riot at the Pecos, Texas prison run by a Boca Raton company, had ended with a “positive outcome”? I was wrong. That’s what I get for relying on the guarantees of the Geo Group, which probably should have delayed claiming victory until after…
Maybe Hollywood Commissioner Beam Furr is right that an ordinance to ban private commissioner meetings with lobbyists is “unconstitutional.” But it’s still a shrewd move by Mayor Peter Bober and Commissioner Heidi O’Sheehan to champion the legislation. Or rather, to force their less savory colleagues to effectively vote for lobbyists…
Starting February 18, television signals are scheduled switch to digital, meaning that people with analog televisions (read: the elderly) who don’t have converter boxes would lose their signal. But today the U.S. House of Representatives voted to push conversion back to June. President Obama is expected to sign that bill…
How conservative is Larry Cretul, the new speaker of the Florida House? So conservative that he once coerced an abortion provider into committing a crime. It all started back in 1997, when Cretul was a commissioner in Marion County. An abortion doctor, Dr. James Scott Pendergraft, was threatening to open…
The governor says it’s “more than likely” he will run for reelection as governor rather than seeking the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Mel Martinez, as has been rumored. Weak, Charlie! You’ve left yourself acres of wiggle room. And the attempt at changing the subject to your chat…
No. Sen. Mel Martinez says he won’t leave his post early, and he’s too busy to deal with your scurrilous rumors, Media. He is whipping up an economic stimulus plan that will rescue the nation from economic despair, thank you very much.It will be a smashing success and Republicans and…
After the hero vanquishes the villain, it’s usually our cue to leave the theater. And so it is with Hollywood politics. Peter Bober (right), the fresh-faced, sweet-talking protagonist who in lieu of a Bat-mobile drove a Segway, toppled the tyrannical regime of Mara Giulianti a year ago. Say what you…
House Speaker Ray Sansom stepped down today. He’s the one who lobbied to win state funds for a college, which then gave him a $110,000 job — a chain of events that Sansom would have us believe were unrelated. Sansom has said he “welcomed” an investigation, which is good, because…
Not that it matters for another 22 months, but a recent in-depth state-by-state analysis of party affiliation by Gallup says Florida “leans Democrat.” The study included more than 18,000 interviews with Floridians and ultimately says that since 2002, the country has gone from mostly Republican to mostly Democrat. In fact, according…
Man, I turn my head for one day (to work on some print edition goodies) and all hell breaks loose in that 2010 Senate race. Democratic Rep. Allen Boyd is out. Democratic State Sen. Dan Gelber is in. Attorney General Bill McCollum is out. It’s such a free-for-all that even…
Today’s Herald quotes Broward school officials who say that in this year’s budget talks, “everything is on the table.” That might mean fewer high school sporting events or no more bus rides to magnet schools. Or even cutting one class out of the students’ daily schedule. Desperate measures for desperate…
I will venture a guess that Jack Seiler, Dean Trantalis, and Steve Rossi all have some familiarity with porn. The difference between those three candidates and the fourth candidate for Fort Lauderdale mayor is a paper trail: Earl Rynerson’s credit card statements contain charges that can be traced back to…
Last August, when the presidential race was a toss-up and the the stock market was not yet gyrating, Barack Obama’s campaign released this paper, which promised that as president he would create five million “green jobs.”Not many, it seemed, would be in the recycling industry. The word “recycle” doesn’t even…
Yep, while nobody (except maybe the unsleeping eye of Anthony Man) was watching, Dr. Marion Thorpe announced that he would be proud to serve Florida in the U.S. Senate. That declaration didn’t make much of a splash. Hell, the Quinniapac poll released last week didn’t even bother factoring Thorpe, the…
Correction: On Friday, we published an article in this spot about the Westboro Baptist Church’s protest of the Rising Action Theatre’s show, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told. The post incorrectly reported that the church began its protest after receiving a letter from David Goldyn of the Rising Action Theatre…
