Last week was a momentous one for Sheriff Al Lamberti. Lamberti’s director of law enforcement, Col. Rick Frey, rather abruptly retired. And then in a late-hour Friday news bomb, it was announced that Lamberti had fired Larry Strain, BSO’s director of purchasing, and suspended (with pay) John Curry, the agency’s Executive Director of…
— With all state schools now out of March Madness, you must do the right thing: Root for hometown boy and basketball prodigy Brandon Knight. – The Daily Business Review has an interesting story about the implosion of another law firm, Adorno & Yoss. The central figure in the disintegration of…
Inside see the rest of the ad. It’s interesting reading — with talk of the progress in draining the Everglades and the burgeoning land boom that would, of course, end in a devastating bust that involved something called the Great Depression…
[jump] From The Daily: Killer beauty queen Meghan Brown is hoping her pink pistol will make her some green.Just days after Brown, 25, used a pink .38-caliber pistol to fatally shoot a burly ex-convict who barged into her Florida home, she tried to cash in on the incident by posing…
Broward Sheriff’s Col. Rick Frey, who is in charge of all law enforcement operations under Sheriff Al Lamberti, announced his resignation today, BSO sources have confirmed. Frey is meeting with Lamberti and all division chiefs at 3:30 this afternoon — basically at the time this post is being published — to make it…
Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter, shortly after voting in favor of the controversial housing project being pushed by dirty developers Bruce and Shawn Chait, appointed the husband of the Chaits’ chief political consultant to the Broward County Planning Council. In early 2007, Ritter appointed Les Stracher to the influential board, which…
For a decade, Scarlett Rabalais has owned and operated the little Ask Me Inn on Fort Lauderdale Beach. And during that time, she has accumulated a lot of loyal and adoring guests who rave about her hospitality and attention to detail. One guest wrote in a review of Rabalais, a former…
I know you didn’t ask, but here’s what I think about Ann Murray’s apparent racism (and this will likely be the last post about the matter): She’s a bigot who finally apologized yesterday for using a racial slur only to try to save her miserable little political career.In fact, I believe…
So what do you do when your brother is elected to the City Commission? Why, you go to political events — like a meeting of the Broward County League of Cities — and then start hitting up the lobbyists and contractors you meet, making sure to name-drop your brother’s elected…
When confronted at yesterday school board meeting about her use of a racial slur, Broward County School Board Member Ann Murray didn’t respond and then “slipped out the door,” according to the Miami Herald. The newspaper followed up on the report here about Murray’s written reprimand for using a racial…
Political operative and Broward County Commission aide Beverly Stracher has deep connections to the state’s corruption investigation, but did she also serve as a pass-through for Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein’s political cash? I raise the question because Stracher, who received immunity in exchange for her testimony in…
Broward School Board Member Ann Murray has yet to publicly comment on the reprimand she received for allegedly making a racist remark, but she did try to answer questions from Freda Stevens, a political activist and and chairwoman of the Democratic Black Caucus of Broward County, about the controversy. The school board…
I wonder if the nonsense-spewing Tea Partiers are really paying attention — because if they are they’ll know they’re just puppets for war profiteers and the oil industry, which are one and the same. Case in point: A federal audit just found that former Florida Republican Party finance chairman Harry Sargeant –…
When Broward School Board member Ann Murray worked as a school bus terminal supervisor for the district before her election, she oversaw a racially diverse crew of drivers. But that didn’t stop her from letting racial slurs fly out of her mouth, according to complaints and testimony from several school district…
The Wek is buying up Fort Lauderdale Beach. Who is The Wek? It’s Canadian trader Michael Wekerle, who owns a winter home in Fort Lauderdale. He’s a veritable legend on Canadian trading floors, a true financial animal. You can read all about him here. Then you have Swedish hedge funder Par Sanda, who…
Yesterday I called the Tea Party rotten and its members “yahoos.” As an exhibit to support that characterization, I submit the above video of Danita Kilcullen, founder of the Fort Lauderdale Tea Party,Kilcullen is another one of those warmongers talking about starting a revolution in America. In the clip, she’s…
By day, Ron Mills is a Democratic area leader and president of the Dolphins Democrats, an influential and active gay political club. By night, he quietly worked as Ron Mills, political operative man. He runs a firm call Footprint Strategies that carries out those often-annoying political “robo-call” campaigns. He also does promotional phone work for the…
The Republican Party tries to pretend it has a monopoly on morality, but it’s so drenched in sin right now that it ought to be able to feel the hellfire licking its feet. The rotten Tea Party has in its hysterical way likened Obama’s attempts to provide everyone with health…
As we watch the images of the common folks — and multimillionaire Norman Braman — celebrating in Miami over the successful recall of Mayor Carlos Alvarez and Commissioner Natacha Seijas, it’s easy to wonder: Can it happen here? Can the people in Broward County dump the corrupt and/or negligent bums in office who haven’t already…
Slow news day, more reporting to do, but I want to update you on the School Board member who allegedly used a racial slur in front of several witnesses (and no, it’s not JenJen). I’m getting the records on it, and lo and behold, I’m stymied by the Broward County…
It’s looking like a good month for scandal-plagued Broward County Commissioner Ilene Lieberman. We learned last week that she may have talked her way out of potential criminal charges by testifying against Tamarac Mayor Beth Talabisco. And tomorrow, Lieberman will be receiving a “prestigious award” at Nova Southeastern University. Lieberman — along with Hallandale Mayor Joy Cooper — will be…
Well, the state’s education commissioner is sending an inspector general down to Broward County to look at the dysfunctional and corrupt embattled School Board. Let’s hope they find a way to clean house. The state is involved thanks to the grand jury’s ripping of the School Board. Supt. Jim Notter,…
