A front-page story in today’s Palm Beach Post blasts the Houston-based engineering and construction firm Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) for not hiring enough local workers on its $200 million solid waste project in western Palm Beach County. One small detail is missing: KBR’s sordid track record of hurting workers…
“I would be in Congress, and I would be black.”
We live in South Florida, one of the warmest climates in the country. And on top of that, this one of the hottest summers we’ve had in years. So why would anyone ever need a fur coat down here?That’s what the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida was thinking when members…
Women from all over the state descended upon Davie for the annual Miss Florida USA pageant this weekend. And because the Fur Information Council of America is one of the official pageant sponsors (and gives away fur coats as totally appropriate “prizes” for South Florida) animal activists were out in…
Does the average Broward voter care more about going to Sawgrass Mills and getting LeBron James than being robbed blind by dirty politicians? Well… yes. To quote another satirical cartoon character, Homer Simpson, “It’s funny because it’s true!”The video above uses the same text-to-movie software as that hilarious, ubiquitous video…
This music video is from Florida Rep. Mike Weinstein from Jacksonville. He’s a Republican — as you probably guessed from the dancing scenes. (Warning: Around the 2:52 mark, a dancer makes a move that’s not quite for the family-values crowd.)I hope some of our South Florida politicians take the cue…
Prosecutors typically don’t cite reporters as a source when they’ve built a criminal case, and today’s indictment of Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin is no different. So here’s a little footnote.Today’s charges would likely have never happened if not for this March 2005 article by New Times columnist Bob Norman…
There’s an old saying that goes something like “never trust the media.” At New Times, we take axioms as seriously as anybody. We don’t even trust each other. For instance, the lunch I put in the fridge? It’s a decoy. My real lunch is in the rafters. See how you…
There were puddles all over Broward County on Monday, thanks to the steady rain over the weekend, but in Hollywood, there were lakes, as you can see in the video above.The worst of it is in South Hollywood, where activists have long complained about poor drainage, among other infrastructure problems…
Everyone knows the best way to tell the world how you feel about something is through a funnyish, quasi-offensive sticker or magnet attached to the back of your automobile. Whether it’s which nutbag pundits you like, which candidates you plan to vote for, who you think invented Christmas, or which…
Kessler International is developing quite a franchise in South Florida. The New York City-based forensic auditing firm is in the midst of its second contract to audit Deerfield Beach. And this week, it will begin a similar review of Pompano Beach records.Specifically, Kessler will take a closer look at the…
It’s been hard for tea partiers to diversify their ranks, adding to the perception that they’re all white people who aren’t just mad about taxes; they’re mad about being taxed by a black president for social programs that benefit the black community.Nothing if not image-conscious, the tea partiers are eager…
The Great Recession and soaring unemployment rates haven’t stopped Florida businesses from hiring cheap, temporary labor from abroad, federal visa records show.In Tampa, one company imported 40 electricians. In Miami Beach, the Best Western Atlantic Beach hired 42 hotel clerks from other countries.And on Palm Beach, the swanky Everglades Club…
Broward County Commissioner Sue Gunzburger is taking the fight to Broward Sheriff’s Office. A day after a press conference in which she accused Sheriff Al Lamberti of a political motive in launching a corruption investigation against her, Gunzburger is daring the sheriff to question her. A note from her campaign:At…
Hallandale Beach City Manager Mike Good has already been shown the door, but the purge of the ethically dubious may have just begun. Now the leading reformer, Commissioner Keith London, is going after Good’s enabler, City Attorney David Jove. And he’s got ammo.Based on records that London provided to Juice,…
Al Gore can have the electric cars. Allen West prefers a gas-guzzling, tricked-out hot rod with a deafening engine and a paint job that advertises a Higher Purpose — in this case, the cause of POW-MIA soldiers.”God bless America!” cries out an observer, overwhelmed by this patriotic scene in the…
Since last week, Deerfield Beach city officials have been trying to debunk a storyline being advanced by embattled Commissioner Sylvia Poiter, who insists that the city is to blame for the failure of the June 19-20 Mango Festival, not her nor her fellow festival organizers.But every time the city has…
There are as many as four million animals put down in shelters every year in this country, according to estimates by the Humane Society of the United States. The problem is particularly bad in South Florida, where the recession has left many families unable to take care of the family…
The subject of this week’s cover story in New Times is Dr. Patricia Wolff, who’s trying to cure malnutrition in Haiti with use of a vitamin-enriched peanut butter. Her efforts are nothing new to South Florida’s own Aaron Jackson, who built an international charitable organization off his wages as a…
Do you have an issue close to your heart, but don’t want to go anywhere scary to protest it? Do you define “scary” as any place without valet parking? Then have we got news for you! For the low, low fee of permanent yuppie status, you too can now protest…
In the summer of 2008, Joe Kessel was facing a predicament all too common to South Floridians: He was struggling to make his mortgage payment. Fortunately for him, he had some uncommonly generous friends — like former Hallandale Beach City Manager Mike Good.Juice has received a copy of a desperate…
During a recent campaign stop, U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene told a member of South Florida’s gay community that “I haven’t formed an opinion yet” on gay marriage. That seems doubtful. Rather, Greene is shrewd enough to give himself some wiggle room on that question if he makes it to…
