I’m not going to talk about this one too much, since it was done by someone who lives in my house. I’m just gonna say it’s a wonderful piece of work and post it …

Okay, now I’m upset. Turns out the Miami Herald had those Mark Foley e-mails, too, and also showed great deference to the congressman by not bothering to do a story about it. But I’m not upset that the Herald didn’t run the story — I’m upset that we didn’t get…

The Mark Foley mess is an even bigger debacle for the St. Pete Times than I first imagined. Now House Speaker Dennis Hastert is essentially saying: “Look everybody, the Times had the e-mails and they didn’t do anything either!” And the sad thing is that Hastert is right. The Times…

Mark Foley has entered rehab with these words: “Painfully, the events that led to my resignation have crystallized recognition of my longstanding significant alcohol and emotional difficulties. I strongly believe that I am an alcoholic and have accepted the need for immediate treatment for alcoholism and related behavioral problems.” Brilliant…

Mahoney with Wes Clark Here’s what Mark Foley’s former opponent — and almost surely the next congressman from Foley’s district — said yesterday: “It’s clear from all of the reports coming in from across the country that the Republican leadership team has been well aware of this problem with the…

After reading the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, and Palm Beach Post bend over backward not to credit New Times for breaking the 2003 Mark Foley story that led to an infamous press conference and, shortly thereafter, the now-disgraced (and now-former) congressman’s dropping out of a U.S. Senate race. Sure, I was…

Corporate Headquarters The Sun-Sentinel, in its quest to become the cotton candy of journalism (sugary, fleetingly pleasing, and devoid of all substance), took a giant step in that direction this weekend: colors. Now the section fronts have color schemes, rather than the old black and white. For the local section,…

Watching the Palm Beach Post political editor Brian E. Crowley slowly evolve — and slowly begin to level with his readers about former Republican Congressman Mark Foley — has been fun to watch. Think of the shock of those poor readers who relied solely on Crowley and the Post for…

The St. Pete Times is one thing, but the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives is another. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert knew about some of Mark Foley’s shady e-mails months ago, Associated Press writer Devlin Barrett reports. Covering up for a sexual predator in their midst? That’s…

There’s a lot to say about the daily newspaper coverage of Mark Foley’s disgraceful exit from politics over his instant messages about giving instant massages to underage Congressional pages. Start with Anthony Man, the new political reporter in the downtown Fort Lauderdale office of the Sun-Sentinel. Man, who I like…

In the St. Petersburg Times’ article by Bill Adair on (former) Congressman Mark Foley’s e-mailings with underage Congressional pages, there’s a very curious passage: The boy, who is not being identified because of his age, told the St. Petersburg Times in an interview last November, when the Times first learned…

Turns out former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley was sitting around in his underwear sending e-mails to teen boys about masturbation, or “spanking it” as the Republican Congressman calls it. Brian Ross at ABC News got hold of the messages and when Foley found out, he quit almost on the spot…

Nisenbaum (at left) with Foley Why did Mark Foley resign so quickly? He was finished. A Congressman simply can’t be caught baiting a 16-year-old boy, especially when the boy is a Congressional page. Foley said he let down his family, which you would assume would include the (former) Boca Raton…

Jose Lambiet reports in the Palm Beach Post today that a reality show called America’s Hottest Mom may have found a winner in Palm Beach County. Her name is Kelly Heyniger (tricky pronunciation there, I’m sure) and she lives “with her two children in a tiny WPB suburban home in…

All right, I just don’t have the time or energy for reporting this, so I’m going to spill the scuttlebutt I’m hearing from the Palm Beach Post, which I’ve been holding for a couple of weeks with hopes that I would flesh it out. But that’s not going to happen,…

Damn strong news day. Some of the better stuff: — Both the Sentinel (Jerome Burdi and Mike Clary) and the Palm Beach Post (Stephanie Slater) have the barn-burner about the arrest of a couple of thieving, high-living, Vegas-loving, skirt-chasing priests. These dudes, John Skehan and Francis Guinan, were out of…

Working on deadline right now, so here’s the news quickly: Boca Raton Congressman Mark Foley is a creep. The gay Republican, who is supposedly in a long-term committed relationship, has been sending weird e-mails from his private AOL account to a 16-year-old Congressional page, according to ABC News’ Brian Ross…

The Bitch down at MNT went after Leslie Abravanel in her column this week. She wrote that Abravanel claimed to have seen Madonna and witnessed a “cat fight” that she couldn’t possibly have seen or witnessed. The piece was pimped to Jossip — but the NY gossip blog wound up…

The brain drain at the Sun-Sentinel — apparently any news judgment among brass is being sucked up by the market-driven scheme I won’t name today — continues. Today, the top of the sparse, weakly designed Sentinel front page has this headline: “7-Eleven drops Venezuela’s Citgo; politics part of the reason.”…

The deeply tanned preacher’s daughter sits by the side of the pool in her tiny bikini on a brilliant summer day, her legs dangling in the clear blue water. To her right, boats pass slowly on the sparkling Intracoastal Waterway past multimillion-dollar mansions. At her left are two young and…

The illustrious John DeGroot sent me another missive this morning, this one savaging Scott Wyman’s story this morning on tax cuts approved by the Broward County Commission. Whatever you might think about DeGroot’s words, that lede, man, is no doubt clunky. Do editors even care over there care anymore? Or…

I grew up reading John Ed Pearce in the Louisville Courier-Journal’s Sunday magazine. He was basically the man when it came to telling Kentucky tales. That picture there might as well be hanging on my wall, it seems so familiar to this day. I never met John Ed, but my…