No-Bid Contract for Pines Outsourcing Goes to Favored Contractor

The founder of the private firm set to receive a controversial, no-bid outsourcing contract in the City of Pembroke Pines has a long history of raking in millions of dollars in business from Broward’s second-largest city.St. Augustine-based Facility Contract Services LLC. was founded by Shawn Hiester, who once owned Capri…

Fort Lauderdale Man: Tea Partiers Assaulted Me

Anybody who’s passed the corner of Federal Highway and Oakland Park Boulevard on a Saturday has seen the local tea partiers and their weekly demonstration. They started sometime right before the 2008 election and just never stopped.One Fort Lauderdale man named Robb (he asked that his last name not be…

Jim Greer Diagnosed as “Psychopath” on Live TV

History will remember Jim Greer as one of the worst party officials in state history. But most of that will be due to the allegations that Greer stole from Republican donors. The pending felony case obscures a number of earlier episodes that should have been grounds for Greer’s resignation. Among…

Miss Florida USA Event Gets Protested for Fur “Prizes”

The Miss Florida USA program held a preliminary event in Hollywood over the weekend. And along with dozens of young women hoping to compete in the Donald Trump-owned Miss USA Pageant, there were a few dozen animal-rights activists outside the building, holding signs and yelling to the women as they…

Most Recent Hollywood Puppy Protest Gets Crapped On

There were no protesters standing outside the Puppy Palace in Hollywood this weekend. Most of the animals-rights activists who frequent the scene were telling the organizers of the Miss Florida USA that they shouldn’t support the fur industry.But a few days ago, there was another colorful scene in front of…

Church, Planned Parenthood Make Uneasy Neighbors

For three years, Pastor Mark Jones of the New Life Pentecostal Church in Greenacres has tolerated an unconventional neighbor. While his flock prays, employees on the other side of the duplex are giving HIV tests and passing out condoms and the morning-after pill.Planned Parenthood, the nonprofit group that’s best-known for…

Allen West Slinging Drinks for Forgotten Soldiers

If you noticed that the service at the Fort Lauderdale Blue Martini was really, really slow on Sunday, that’s probably because it was amateur hour behind the bar. YouTube celebrity and congressional candidate Allen West was mixing drinks as part of the bar’s Forgotten Soldiers Outreach event.That “Ron Klein on…

Hallandale Mayor Hopes a Scandal Hits Commissioner Colleague

There’s no love loss between Mayor Joy Cooper and rabble-rousing Commissioner Keith London, but it seemed for a moment that there might at least be a period of détente after Cooper finally came around to agreeing with London that the city manager’s position needed a change.Judging by a recent email…

Allen West Is to Denmark What Hasselhoff Is to Deutschland

The Danes love them some Allen West. Or at least one influential Dane does. Listen to Morten U. Jensen, writing last week in the nation’s largest daily paper:Skulle man være så heldig at være amerikansk statsborger og samtidig bosiddende i det toogtyvende valgdistrikt i Florida, så har man ved midtvejsvalget…

Holy Water Splash Leads to Religious Clash in Pompano School

Two teachers at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach are in danger of losing their jobs after a March incident in which they allegedly doused an atheist teacher with holy water, the South Florida Times reports.From today’s article:Along with teacher Djuna Robinson, (fellow teacher Leslie) Rainer is accused of sprinkling…