It looks like the Patte Atkins-Grad recall election won’t be necessary after all, because “Positively Patte” handed in her resignation to City Hall on Wednesday afternoon. Of course, that comes with a catch. Namely, that Atkins-Grad wants to be reimbursed her $8,000 in legal fees. Or else, no dice on…
As we have documented over and over again, Gov. Rick Scott is hellbent on purging Florida voters because of Rick Scotty reasons. And now, he’s all set to take his crusade on the road when he conducts public roundtable discussions with 67 supervisors of elections, including in Fort Lauderdale…
Gov. Rick Scott swung through Fort Lauderdale yesterday as part of a campaign-style “tax cut tour” to galvanize support for a quixotic $500 million tax cut he wants to jam through the state Legislature this coming term. Calling it his “primary goal” for next year, Scott again reiterated the apparent…
So, Secretary of State John Kerry was traveling in Britain yesterday and when a reporter asked him at a news conference whether there was any way that Syria could now avoid being struck as retaliation for a chemical weapons attack on its own people. Kerry harrumphed, in a tone of…
Gov. Rick Scott is taking time out of his voter suppression crusade to launch his “Ain’t No One Got Time for Taxes” Tour 2013. It’s actually called the “It’s Your Money” Tour, but we think ours is snazzier. Scott kicks off the tour Tuesday morning right from our own backyard,…
When last we heard from Marco Rubio concerning the situation with Syria, he was busy saying he was all for military action, but Obama is leading from behind, so now it’s probably still a good time to strike, but if only Obama had done it sooner… er something. Well, Golden…
When a Florida man was stopped and searched by cops, he tried to conceal the crack pipe he was carrying. Since cops tend to look in pockets and hats and shoes and pants, the man hid the pipe in the one place they wouldn’t be able to spot during a…
War is hell, everyone knows — even if you’re supposedly fighting it with unmanned drones, surgical strikes, and big-ass warships. If you’re one of the many getting that icky feeling in your stomach about possible impending military action in Syria, you might want to grab some posterboard and a Sharpie…
C’mon — you’ve got to be mad at Rick Scott about something! Leaving Stand Your Ground intact? Decimating the Department of Environmental Protection? Not showing up at his own education summit? Making baldness sexy? What started out a protest against oil drilling has morphed into a catch-all event. People from…
Fane Lozman has seen plenty of rampant corruption in Riviera Beach. He’s also convinced there’s more, so he’s putting his money where his mouth is. Lozman, along with the Palm Beach Sun newspaper (to which Lozman contributes occasional columns), is offering a $50,000 reward for information about city councilmen Cedrick…
Now that Tamarac Commissioner “Positively Patte” Atkins-Grad’s recall has been made official, it was time to wait for the recall election date to be announced. And that time is today. On Wednesday morning, Broward’s chief judge announced that the recall election will be held on October 15. It will be…
UPDATE 9:03 a.m. Jackie Schutz says “Governor Scott asked Commissioner of Education Pam Stewart to convene the summit to provide the opportunity to openly discuss ideas and options to continue improving Florida’s public school system. Governor Scott was not scheduled to attend.” She also provided a list of invitees, posted…
Tom Rooney, your 17th Congressional District rep, isn’t too fired up about the U.S. possibly taking military action in Syria. Or, as the Palm Beach Post puts it, he’s “apprehensive” and “wary” of any action. “I’m pretty against getting involved in a Sunni-Shia civil war,” Rooney says. According to an…
Back in December, a jury found Tamarac Commissioner “Positively Patte” Atkins-Grad not guilty on bribery, official misconduct, receiving unlawful compensation, and conspiring to commit unlawful compensation charges after she threw herself one helluva of an election victory party. But that didn’t stop a recall committee’s door-to-door campaign of gathering signatures…
Alan Williams, a Florida legislator and a supporter of the Dream Defenders — the protesters who staged a sit-in in Gov. Rick Scott’s Tallahassee office over the controversial Stand Your Ground law — has filed legislation to repeal the law. Williams, a Tallahassee Democrat and outspoken critic of Stand Your…
The Fort Lauderdale City Commission will vote tonight on whether to allow a nearly 100-year-old tree to be moved so a developer can build a 960-unit apartment complex called Marina Lofts on the New River. The site is west of the Broward County Jail and the Downtowner saloon, near the…
Once upon a time, Marco “Golden Boy” Rubio was seen as the great Hispanic hope for the Republican Party — he fell perfectly in line with all the GOP’s wonderful ideas, like denying climate change and talking about how bad illegal immigrants were. But this January, he proposed a path…
Back in July, we told you about the United For Care Campaign, a group run by People United for Medical Marijuana, who took up the fight to get legalized medical marijuana on the ballot in Florida in November of 2014 as a Constitutional Amendment. The group needed to collect 68,314…
The time has come. On Tuesday, August 20, the Fort Lauderdale city commission will vote in what promises to be one of most contentious meetings ever. The commission must decide: Will they say no to a well-connected developer and the apartment project that was designed by the hottest young architect…
Rick Scott’s idea to give debit cards to teachers so that they can buy themselves school supplies without dipping into their own pockets has shockingly gone bust. Mainly because, while the idea is a noble and good one, its execution was dumb. Also, because the cards won’t be ready until…
On April 19, an Israeli military officer, Col. Bentzi Gruber, came to Florida Atlantic University to give a presentation called “Ethics in the Field,” explaining how the Israeli Defense Forces thwart attacks and defending the Israeli military against accusations of human rights violations. Five students, members of the FAU chapter…
This month, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released a hefty report on the worse governors in America. And yup, no news flash here, Rick Scott made the short list for the barrel’s bottom. CREW picked six governors as the worst of the worst, a distinction Scott…
