I’m not sure why I feel the urge to communicate this. I didn’t think I had particularly strong feelings about Davie Commons. One minute, I’m picking up my mail, which contained this lovely flyer from the Broward County Property Appraiser, and the next thing you know I’m running down the…
Humor being the last refuge of the damned, one has to chuckle at the irony in this particular item. It’s surreal, but yes, our Republican legislature refused to close its enormous budget gap by raising taxes on cigarettes, while at the same it decided to raid the rainy day fund…
Global freedom-hating menace Osama bin Laden has released a new album, and this one sounds like the others. Gaza, Jihad, path of God, Jews are mean, et cetera. Nothing you haven’t heard before. In fact, how does the most recent tape prove that The Pajama-ed one lives? Maybe I’m just…
Quit flaunting your chin, harlot. You’re in Greater Tampa.Let’s not get too demoralized over the national media ridiculing our corruption, which is rampant, pervasive, ubiquitous and all-encompassing. It could be worse. We could be in Pinellas County, where county officials are scrambling to cover the naughty bits of beachgoers, lest…
See if you can find a silver lining for South Florida in these two reports in major national news magazines about Palm Beach. Newsweek’s Daniel Gross writes about how Bernard Madoff fleeced Palm Beach high society and Time declares the county to be The New Capital of Florida Corruption. Give…
At the top of the hour, baby-faced U.S. Rep Kendrick Meek, the Democrat from Miami, will announce his bid for the U.S. Senate in 2010 when Republican Sen. Mel Martinez steps down. Being the first from either party to declare, Meek’s given himself nearly two years to campaign.Which is a…
We get it, Earl Rynerson. You would rather talk about issues facing Fort Lauderdale than be known as merely The Gay Candidate.Your predicament reminds me of this guy who didn’t want to be known as merely The Black Candidate, but when the November election rolled around, post-election polls suggested race…
Eli Kavon is an adjunct professor at Nova Southeastern University who lectures on Jewish history and is a frequent contributor to The Jerusalem Post. I spoke with Kavon recently to get his perspective on the conflict that’s erupted between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and which shows no…
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Weston Democrat (not to be confused with the Westin Diplomat), has been named the vice chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, which is a long way of saying she’s in a better position to get us more stuff. In…
On the New Times newsroom’s Wall o’ Deviance, beneath photographs of long-gone staffers cavorting with strippers, you will find the red-white-and-blue 2008 calendar of Rudy Giuliani, which he modestly called “Countdown to Victory.” The calendar warns of a slow march toward a dystopian American future in which 9/11 replaces Christmas…
The hardcore environmentalists at Everglades Earth First sure know how to push FPL’s buttons. All year, they’ve been waging a court battle against construction of a new power plant in Palm Beach County (right across the street from a wildlife refuge!). Today, they picked another fight with the energy giant,…
In Deerfield Beach, they don’t do Democrats and Republicans. Rather, you’ve got the Indicted Party, which nominated Al Capellini, who resigned as mayor last month after corruption charges were filed against him. And you’ve got the Nearly Indicted Party, which recently chose Jean Robb as its nominee.Robb was mayor from…
An art teacher shot herself in front of Largo Middle School last week, leaving a 4-page suicide note that lambasted the principal.Wage slaves are hurting everywhere, but it’s really, really bad in the schools. For every Linda Joy Taylor, there are countless teachers dealing with their depression in a less…
Imagine a poster like this hanging in Jim Naugle’s old office.Here at New Times, we’re porn-positive. (I mean, have you seen what lurks in our back pages?) In this Age of Tolerance, it’s high time that a big, Democratic city like Fort Lauderdale have a candidate who’s open and unashamed…
All three major TV networks have stopped sending full-time correspondents to Iraq, so if you want any information about what’s going on in the Middle East, you better go seek it out yourself. The New York Times still delivers compelling coverage — including blog posts from its Iraqi employees; photos…
100,000 is one of those magic numbers. It’s the summit of a classic Eighties game show. It’s a milestone that reminds you to get that car tuned up. And if you’re a state whose prison population has just reached that number, it means you’re running out of room in the…
Poor, poor Peter Boinis. He’s the restaurateur who somehow (*cough-campaign donations-cough*) convinced a few Deerfield Beach commissioners that it was a good idea to lease him its pier for just $150,000 per year so that he could build a restaurant there. A burst of city activism derailed that plan in…
You could be there for Lindsay’s next embarrassment! So you’ve opened the presents and done all your dreaming about sugar plums, which is probably what the kids are calling some kind of messed up pill these days. Now your brain moves on to the next challenge: how to spend New…
This past weekend, Florida’s First Lady made her first public appearance and she didn’t sound nervous at all. Asked what it’s like to be First Lady, Mrs. Crist said: “I love it. It’s a tremendous honor and privilege, and I enjoy obviously being with my wonderful husband, always.” She described…
By now, almost nothing can shock us about Hollywood (Florida) news. Not a dead body turning up in a Federal Highway hotel. Been there. Not a dirty cop, nor a public official hit with criminal indictment. Been there and there. Nothing would have shocked us…except this. And this.Yep, it’s good…
On Wednesday I met Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz at Jaxson’s Ice Cream Parlor on U.S. 1 in Dania Beach for a wide-ranging discussion — including my paranoid delusions about the sinister deal-cutting that must take place when voters aren’t watching.The congresswoman insists that she has never thrown footwear at…
Take a look at the photo of this hideous puppy above, and it’s easy to see why Joe Biden went to a dog breeder to get his new puppy. Is this the best you’ve got, German shepherd rescue groups? Pictured is Caribou, a German shepherd puppy available right now from…
