Rep. Anitere Flores should be grateful that only dorks like me watch Issues, the Sunday political program on our local public television station WPBT. I can’t imagine she’d have wanted her constituents in Kendall / University Park / Westwood Lakes to watch her appearance this past Sunday.Here’s a link to…
Since I was in Washington this week, I figured I’d stop by the Capitol to pay our congressional delegation a visit. Also, because it’s heated.I caught a few minutes (and I do mean a few… like, seven) with a very busy Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz (above), who said that this…
No television cameras bore witness to President Barack Obama’s second oath of office — just a single photographer who snapped the shot above, of two people who vaguely resemble Obama and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, their right hands raised and looking all oath-y. Or… it really happened. Yes,…
Does this kid look like an assassin to you? Damon Weaver, the Canal Point Elementary fifth-grader who trekked to Washington, D.C., in hopes of getting some inauguration day face time with the new pres, got stuck at a security checkpoint and didn’t even get to see Barack Obama’s historic speech.Well,…
Ali Elhajj, a 35-year-old software engineer who lives in Weston, grew up Muslim in Lebanon. Eight years ago, he converted to Christianity. He found peace in his new religion, but he was also alarmed by how American Christians spoke of circumstances in Palestine. “I find that the American church does not understand what is going on…
McCollum (left) and Crist are the frontrunners.The Quinniapac University Bobcats cannot wait for us Floridians to pick our own U.S. Senator in 2010. Besides, Florida will probably have its votes stripped by Howard Dean again, anyway. So Quinniapac staged the election for us and… hello, U.S. Senator Bill McCollum?Among possible…
Like we told you earlier, PETA’s inauguration day high jinks were hampered by Bernard Madoff, and judging by the photos Deirdra’s sending from D.C., the animal rights group had to resort to this old gag.More photos from our correspondent’s day in D.C., after the jump…
This may come as a disappointment to all those Wag the Dog conspiracy theorists, but the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States was not a CGI stunt; it really happened, reports Juice Capitol Correspondent Deirdra Funcheon. She witnessed the ceremony firsthand, over the heads…
In a press release just sent out over the wires, the Miami Dolphins announced that Stephen M. Ross now owns 95 percent of the franchise and Dolphin Stadium. Combined with the 50 percent of the team Ross purchased last February, Ross and Wayne Huizenga officially sealed the deal on an additional…
“But I thought he liked downers?” asks Miche Ratto, New Times associate art director. Sadly, he’s right. Maybe the Palm Beach blowhard is just mad that Rev. Rick Warren did not touch Dick Cheney with his healing hand so that the latter could karate-kick Joe Biden. Be grateful, conservative cherub…
I just got off the phone with the Juice Washington Bureau Chief Deirdra Funcheon. “The riff raff” — a group that includes Funcheon, despite her prestigious title — “have to stay far away. I’ve had to walk about ten or 15 blocks just to end up behind the Capitol. Every…
Well, my friends, I had hoped to provide you with a dispatch about the Washington, D.C., performance of painter Michael Israel, an awe-inspiring, mulleted dude who was booked to speed-paint a portrait of Barack Obama at an inaugural ball called the Virginia Black Tie and Blue Dominion Ball. Virginia Gov…
She will not be streaking at the inauguration.You probably thought today’s inauguration ceremonies would provide a day’s relief from the death march of victims of area reprobate Bernard Madoff. Well, sorry. Turns out the Palm Beach financial wizard made special-access inauguration tickets disappear for the People’s Ethical Treatment of Animals…
We know today isn’t a national holiday, but it sure feels like one. So just in case you are stuck at work, rather than freezing your ass off in Washington D.C., Hulu is streaming the presidential inauguration live. So sit back, relax and press play. Just make sure to turn…
On Monday, Democratic Congresspersons Robert Wexler, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Ron Klein held a “dessert reception” to welcome folks to the inauguration. They walked from their offices in the Capitol: directly across the lawn to the Library of Congress: where attendees had to wait in line to go through a…
It is hard to overstate how crowded it was on the National Mall Sunday. I’ve been to New York City. I’ve been to Disney World. I’ve been to Phish concerts. But to be one amongst nearly a million human bodies is oddly disconcerting. Especially because it seemed like a good…
This is James Martin, but “they call me the mayor of Union Station,” he says. Since retiring from the Bureau of Engraving, Martin has held various jobs at DC’s historic train station. Martin was catching a lot of people’s eyes because he was in a city of Obama-lovers wearing a…
The view from my train, bound for the center of the political universeAfter trekking 21+ hours by Amtrak from West Palm Beach to Washington DC. — along with 140 kids from a high school marching band and conductors who swore they had graduated from “Choo Choo U.” — the first…
Considering Fort Lauderdale mayoral candidate Jack Seiler was a state legislator until this year (when he termed out), he seems like the most likely among the four contenders to know how a big Democratic city like this one can wring a few extra bucks out of those tight-fisted Republicans who…
Since it was built in the Sixties, Floyd Hull Stadium, on Southwest 8th Avenue just off State Road 84, behind the National Guard Armory, has been operated by volunteer members of the Federal Little League, a local nonprofit organization. During that period it has enjoyed a harmonious relationship with Fort…
President-elect Barack Obama will be making plenty of appearances over the next few weeks, but one in particular has comic book fiends and political junkies combining forces . In Spiderman #583 (pictured right), released on Wednesday, Spidey receives a special guest appearance from the most popular superhero in the world right…
It’s high time we size up Fort Lauderdale’s mayoral field. With so much ground to cover, we’ll have to go one by one. Batting leadoff…Dean Trantalis is a real estate attorney who became Fort Lauderdale’s first openly gay commissioner in 2003, defeating Jon Albee, a insurance and real estate agent,…
