We were remiss not to tell you about this sooner, but on the last day of February, a Palm Beach County judge handed down yet another win to Fane Lozman, the Marine Corps pilot turned millionaire stockbroker turned houseboat owner turned hero for the Little Man everywhere. Lozman made national…
Rick Scott continues to be unliked by many amounts of people, despite the fact that he’s changed his mind about things like Medicaid expansion and despite adding more early voting days and declaring his love for Florida panthers. The latest Quinnipiac University poll, released early Wednesday, shows that people ain’t care…
After a short-lived term as Broward Republican chairman came to a close for Rico Petrocelli because he didn’t get along with people, or some such thing, the Broward GOP had a chance to really come out swinging, especially after getting slammed in the November elections, and choose a new leader…
Scott Prouty’s rich! Well, kinda. Scott Prouty can finally get outta debt! That’s better. Five days ago, after more than 1,000 articles appeared showing how local man Scott Prouty helped vanquish the Romnoms once and for all with his commando camera skills, he set up a legal fund to battle…
The timing couldn’t have been better for the shenanigans local activist Aaron Jackson and his non-profit, Planting Peace, pulled off in Topeka, Kansas yesterday. If you managed to avoid social media or the internet in general over the last 24 hours, the Destin-based activist, along with friends and partners involved…
Good news, Florida, you’re number one in something that doesn’t have to do with concealed weapons, or people who get arrested for shooting themselves in the penis! The state announced on Monday that Florida has begun the new year with a 7.8 percent unemployment rate, which is the lowest since…
Last week Marco Rubio spoke at the GOPers Paradise To Complain About The Black Fella, Them Freeloadin’ Poor People, And Don’t Touch My AK-47-Palooza (or CPAC, for short) where he basically told everyone that denying gay people simple civil rights doesn’t at all make him a bigot, and that global…
The days of using your welfare card to make it rain on the fine ladies dancing on the pole, and then getting yourself some booze, will soon be a thing of the past. That is, if House Bill 701 becomes a law. You’re just going to have to get a…
Give Marco Rubio a break, you guys. Sure he opposes gays from having the same rights as straights in every possible way imaginable, including the right to marry the person you’re in love with and the right to not get fired over your preference of whom you choose to sleep…
On Monday afternoon, a Senate select committee rejected moving forward with an expansion of the Medicaid program under the federal Affordable Care Act, even after Gov. Rick Scott expressed a desire to see it expanded and even though state hospitals and businesses wanted to see it expanded and even though…
New Times rarely makes calls at an early hour. Especially on a Monday morning. But this morning, after we got hold of an unusual police report starring an even more startling character, we dialed up Bruce Augello, a candidate for Coconut Creek Commission, who’d apparently bit his wife after she…
Today is International Women’s Day! Yes, it’s the one day of the year we allow the dames to come out of the kitchen or put the baby down so we can recognize them for all the lady things they do. We love you, ladies. You’re real swell. But because it’s…
Look, you guys. It’s not so much that Jeb Bush is out of step with everyone else on immigration reform or that he’s a complete flip-flopping dolt. It’s just that he has horrible timing. And, as Jeb! points out himself, people were totally against the whole “path to citizenship” thing…
Voter fraud in Florida? OH DO TELL. Two ex-employees of Strategic Allied Consulting, which the GOPers hired to register voters prior to the November elections, were charged with a third-degree felony after they admitted they forged voter-registration forms, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. And while the GOPers…
The Florida Legislative sessions got kicked off this week, and since this is Florida, there’s no lack of fodder to get super riled up about and make loud angry noises and be an anonymous tough guy in the comments sections of blogs and on Twitter. Lawmakers will look at and…
Former Florida Gov. (and little brother ta Dubya) Jeb Bush has been making the rounds on morning television shows to talk about his new book, which, COINCIDENTALLY, happens to be about probably the most important issue that will preoccupy us all from now until 2016. Imergration, y’all! But, as it…
Following a scathing judgment concerning a defamation lawsuit in Miami court last month barring a prominent Haitian-American journalist, Leo Joseph, from printing the name of the Haitian prime minister, Joseph has vowed to fight the ruling, calling it another manifestation of the politician’s corruption. Last August, Joseph published a series…
Update, 10:34 a.m.: This post was updated with quotes from Anthony Losquadro, executive director of Intaction. Surely, President Clinton was a little freaked out last night when in the middle of his event — a Clinton Foundation Millennium Network talk in New York featuring the former president, Chelsea Clinton, and…
Earlier this week, Rick Scott decided a tweet just wasn’t enough. Nor was a Facebook message. Nor an email. Rick instead did something wild. He wrote a letter, slapped a stamp on it, and shipped it across the land to Barack Obama in the White House using something called the…
Tuesday, March 5, is the first day of the legislative session for Florida lawmakers. And rabble-rousers are not letting it go unnoticed. People affiliated with a progressive group called Awake the State, whose emphasis is on protecting middle-class families, intend to rally at 5 p.m. outside the Supervisor of Elections,…
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta unanimously ruled that a lower court’s decision to halt the enforcement of Rick Scott’s law that forced welfare recipients to take drug tests was good. Back in May 2011, Scott signed into law a bill requiring that Florida’s TANF welfare recipients pass a…
Rick Scott, GOPer champion of Defiance Toward All Things Obummercare was not, would not, could not, wouldn’t, under any circumstances, implement Medicaid if he had anything to say about it. He said Medicaid wouldn’t do anyone any good and even went so far as to give out botched math to…
