— This little ditty by the Palm Beach Post’s Andrew Marra may be the worst news City Place has had. Not because a woman hanged herself out in the open. But because nobody even noticed until the afternoon. After the jump: McDonald’s fighting obesity, Reinhard, Bigoney, Venezuelan ant-Semitism, abortion debacle,…

Robert Birnbaum Miami Herald Publisher Jesus Diaz Jr. wrote about the Marti Ten story in a column on Sunday. There are a couple of interesting passages, though there’s nothing earth-shattering in it (if you want a breakdown on it from the hardcore exile point of view, check out Manuel A…

Koretzky Is Readying His Goon Squad Okay, it’s one of those credit things. On September 7, University Press staffer Jason Parsley broke a story about a Barnes and Noble giveaway at Florida Atlantic University that went awry. Basically, nobody knows what happened to thousands of dollars in gift cards that…

— Nice job by the Herald’s Cammy Clark on the diver in the Keys who was killed by a Grouper he’d just illegally speared. Both of them died together, actually, which is sort of beautiful in a macabre way. — Great work by Sun-Sentinel free-lancer Dale Koppel, who exposes the…

Castell� After the Miami Herald broke the story that three reporters working for its Spanish-language newspaper, El Nuevo Herald, had been fired for receiving propaganda money from Radio and TV Marti, the question was inevitable: What did the Herald know and when did it know it? After implying in reporter…

There have been some technical difficulties with the Pulp, keeping me from posting the usual compelling, humorous, outrageous, and addictive material that you’ve come to expect to pop up on this site. It’s back in operation, though, and I’m working on a pretty good post concerning the Marti Ten story…

— I think Jim Davis scored with his pick for lieutenant governor. Though Jones has had a bout with ethical controversy, Daryl Jones knows his stuff, is a skilled politician, and will bring some needed energy to the ticket. He’s also proven himself to be a political survivor. Politically, I…

[PHOENIX, WE HAVE A PROBLEM: The blog is down, so my morning post didn’t come up: To read it punch on the comment below]. For you early risers, I’m gonna be on Jim DeFede’s radio show on AM-940 this morning at 7:30 a.m. talking about the Marti Ten, et al…

The Story of the Day — how many of y’all remember that old Pulpian chestnut? — has got to be the one about the father who cajoled his 10-year-old daughter into jumping off a bridge with him into the Intracoastal to help cure her fear of heights. This much we…

AP Diaz Is it a conflict of interest for Miami Herald publisher Jesus Diaz Jr. to serve on the advisory board for the federal government’s Cuba Transition Project? I think it’s a decent question and Henry Gomez, the Babalu contributor who just started the new blog Herald Watch, asked it…

Unbelievable. The Miami Herald’s Mary Ellen Klas informs us this morning that our favorite political talk show host, Helen Aguirre Ferre, is on the short list of four to become Charlie Crist’s running mate. This just five days after the Herald exposed that Ferre, who is also opinion page editor…

The lede on this Sun-Sentinel story: “NORTH LAUDERDALE — Two men have been charged with beating a duck to death with a stick, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said on Tuesday. The reason for the beating: The men said the duck was stealing their bait while they fished in a lake…

It’s called Riptide 2.0 and it’s our sister paper’s first foray into blogdom. I went down to Miami yesterday and hung out with MNT staff to talk about blogging, but mostly drank beer and shot pool. All I can recall right now is that Calvin Godfrey is pretty good with…

I’m a little slow on the take this morning, for sure. But this Marti Ten thing is generating more response than I can keep up with (while trying to report and write stories of my own at the same time anyway). The Herald’s Oscar Corral reports this morning that Marti…

Montaner Carlos Alberto Montaner, perhaps the most distinguished member of the Marti Ten, has responded to the Miami Herald article with a letter written in Spanish to El Nuevo [AMENDED] and another English version in the Herald. Here’s the letter…

Told you I was going to see the Marlins this weekend and I didn’t lie. Happened to go to Saturday night’s game just because that was the only one I could schedule in with the fam. It was a great one. The crowd wasn’t huge, but it was decent (27,000…

The guys over at Babalu and other exile blogs have been crying about Oscar Corral’s coverage of the Marti Ten since the story broke. The only really good point I’ve seen made was first raised in The Real Cuba blog, which dug up the fact that the Herald had an…

Walter … and with the kind of splash we’ve come to expect from the Palm Beach Post’s gossip columnist. Lambiet, who has been on hiatus for several weeks (like Corral, he’s been underground working on a special piece), hits us with a piece on embattled and recently divorced Palm Beach…

It’s gotta be weird to be Oscar Corral right now. The Miami Herald reporter who broke the Marti Ten story is so reviled by the hardline Cuban exile community that I wonder if he’s not in real danger. The death-to-Castro brigades (whether they are right or wrong) are full of…

As you run about this weekend doing things you shouldn’t, keep this in mind, especially you ladies: Cavity searches are all the rage these days in police circles. The Daily Busines Review’s Forrest Norman tells us the sordid story of Jessie Thodde, a 22-year-old Cheesecake Factory waitress who made the…

So John Hanlon is headed to the sheriff’s office. The man who investigated and ultimately let off BSO’s top brass, including Sheriff Ken Jenne, in the Autotrack Powertrac scandal is now on the BSO payroll. The 68-year-old prosecutor who has made a living out of coddling corrupt public officials for…

The Miami Herald’s Oscar Corral breaks a major story this morning about 10 reporters being paid anti-Castro propaganda money by the U.S. government. Specifically, the money came from the U.S. Office of Cuban Broadcasting, which runs Radio Marti and TV Marti, propaganda stations aired in Central and South America. Corral…