To give you an idea of how badly the Heat have been playing in the Finals, consider that Dave Hyde has stopped his continuing worship of Pat Riley long enough to start complaining. But if you want to read some reality about Riley, check out this column from the Palm…

It was like any other correction, tucked away on page 2A in Saturday’s Sun-Sentinel: An article and headline on Page 1A of Wednesday’s edition incorrectly reported that Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne did not disclose the 2001 sale of a Lake Worth condominium on his income tax return. In fact, the…

After being beaten soundly by the Miami Herald on coverage of the federal investigation of Sheriff Ken Jenne, the Sentinel took drastic measures. It put its investigative team, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize this year for its coverage of FEMA, on the story. And then came the…

I’ll be rooting for the Heat tonight, no doubt. But a part of me is still gonna be pissed about Stan Van Gundy. And if you’ve been reading sports columnist Dave Hyde’s commentary in the Sun-Sentinel throughout these playoffs, you’ve probably noticed that as the Heat’s success grows, he’s become…

While South Florida politicians are notorious for forging unethical bonds with high-rolling developers, Deerfield Beach Mayor Al Capellini has taken it a step further. He’s become one. And city records show that he’s used the power of his political office not only to promote an office building project he’s backing,…

Got this e-mail just now that the Broward County AFL-CIO will hold a rally tomorrow morning to show support for … Sheriff Ken Jenne. That’s right. S-U-P-P-O-R-T. To wit: June 6, 2006 To All Concerned: There will be a rally of support for Sheriff Ken Jenne on Thursday, June 8…

Okay, that header may be overstating things just a bit, but you read about Deerfield Beach City Manager Larry Deetjen’s racist airport blow-up here first. Let’s face it, Larry Deetjen brought down Larry Deetjen. The Sun-Sentinel’s Susannah Bryan tells us this morning of Deetjen’s six-month suspension which was hastened by…

Thanks to Chaz Stevens for pointing out the slogan of TransMedia, the firm hired by Mayor Al Capellini to combat bad press about his dubious dating and business habits: “What can we SPIN for you today?” Another TransMedia client is Walter Shaw, the famed jewel thief and cat burglar of…

People go to Florida to die. So where do Floridians go. Tennessee, the Sentinel’s Liz Doup reports. Doup describes the bucolic and paradisical rural Tennessee life like a funeral director selling a plush coffin. “I found a piece of heaven,” says the lede Florida expat. Yeah, literally. Living in a…

So I got an e-mail from a P.R. firm in Boca Raton called TransMedia Group. The subject line: “Mayor Al Capellini Speaks Out!” That’s right, Mayor Al has hired a P.R. firm to rebut negative press, including coverage of his use of a city supervisor to coerce a city lifeguard…

Ever heard of the Deerfield Observer? It’s a so-called “community newspaper” — you know, one of those local Chamber of Commerce rags. Some Deerfield locals have been cheering a pending personnel change at the newspaper that was announced on Friday: The resignation of long-time Managing Editor Judy Wilson. Why? Because…

Usually would save this for Monday, but today is a big day. Christian Zapata, one of fired deputy scapegoats in the BSO crime stats scandal, was acquitted. Between the two big dailies, the Sentinel’s Tonya Alanez had the superior coverage on the jury’s wise decision, highlighting defense attorney Alberto Milian’s…

The Palm Beach Post was dominated today by the wrong tense. On the front page is a huge headline, “Property Values Have Risen An Average Of 21 Percent … WHAT’S DRIVING THE SURGE?” The website headline: “PBC property values shoot up 21 percent.” Apparently they didn’t read their own story…

That’s Naugle’s Back With all due respect to Mike Mayo, all this hand-wringing over Mayor Jim Naugle’s quotes about affordable housing is pretty dull. Anybody who has been paying attention to Naugle for the past decade or two knows that he’s a right-wing provocateur. And the mayor’s quote about his…

The Sun-Sentinel played catch-up to the Miami Herald this morning on the Ken Jenne sweepstakes and did a decent job of explaining the mystery $20,000 loan. Almost as good as the Herald, which maintained its ownership of the story. Interesting newspaper horserace aside, I am amazed by Jenne’s cheap cunning…

Something is rotten in Deerfield. The City of Deerfield Beach is cracking open like a cantaloupe, one side led by Mayor Al Capellini and City Manager Larry Deetjen and the other by commissioners Steve Gonot and Martin Popelsky. City Hall meetings are marked by shouting and chaos. Armed guards have…

For all practical purposes, the excellent journalism done by the American Lawyer Media’s 39 publications — including the newsbreaking Daily Business Review in South Florida — is gone. Kaput. Swallowed. Absent. The opposite of “there.” However you want to put it, the vast majority of journalists around the country won’t…

The Miami Herald absolutely smoked the Sun-Sentinel in the Saturday stories on Sheriff Ken Jenne. When it comes to the federal investigation of the sheriff, the Herald story by Wanda DeMarzo and Jay Weaver gave us a look at some of the furniture in the room while the Sentinel left…

The Palm Beach Post disgraced itself today. Check out the front page. Dwarfing excellent articles by Tony Doris (Liberti pleads guilty) and S.V. Date (about GOP and insurance companies — and sorry, S.V., I don’t know how to put the accent on that e), the newspaper ran a larger than…

Close readers might have noticed that I wrestled yesterday with the post about the death of Diann Slattery, the former Sun-Sentinel and Miami Today editor who died Monday at 46. I rewrote a specific part of it about six times — publishing a different version here each time. It gnawed…