It seems pretty clear that Tribune Co.’s groundbreaking new morning show is already getting seriously tweaked. A third of the SouthFlorida.Com Live host team, one Amber Lyon, has mysteriously disappeared from the show. At first, she was supposedly sick (on June 8, she complained on Twitter, “hoping to nip this cold in the bud…
Joe Cavaretta/Sun-Sentinel Will she tell the truth and nothing but? The Florida Elections Commission sent a letter to Mayor Stacy Ritter on June 5 informing her that it has found “legal sufficiency” to conduct an investigation into her 2008 campaign finances. That’s right, the state is digging into Ritter’s whacked-out campaign…
You know I write about outrageous acts performed by public officials all the time, but it’s almost always impersonal. Sure, I may get a little righteous indignation running through my veins, but I don’t really get angry. Not this time. I learned this morning that the Florida Bar Association is going after…
Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion, who is under criminal investigation right now, made some cryptic remarks at Tuesday’s budget meeting: Yes, I’m willing to give up some of my salary. In fact, I’ll put a number on the table right now. I’m willing to give up $2,500 to $5,000 of my salary back…
This Donte Stallworth sentence is sticking in the Pulp’s craw a little. You get drunk, get in a car, accidentally kill someone, and get only 30 days in jail for it? It doesn’t matter that the victim’s family — which is being duly enriched by the NFL’s star’s largesse — is…
Veteran Broward County Commissioner Joe Eggelletion is well-known for his love of golf, but did he sell out his public office for the game? It’s a question state investigators are asking themselves as they look into Eggelletion’s expensive membership at the Parkland Golf & Country Club. The State Attorney’s Office…
Somebody’s gonna label me a sympathizer of the cat killer (again), but this line in a Sun-Sentinel story on Tyler Weinman’s release from jail just leaped out at me like a kitty going after a raised piece of string (the italics are mine): Family pictures of his son depicted a smiling…
A half-priced downtown condo on the Intracoastal. A $50,000 piece of land. More than $500,000 in cash that was was used to pay off mortgage, buy a second home in Pennsylvania, and pay tuition at an expensive private school. Family jewelry, a Dell computer, and a widescreen TV. These are just…
Miami Herald Critic and Conservative Columnist Glenn Garvin wrote the following tribute for journalist Margaret Carroll on Facebook and someone passed it to me. Carroll, who worked for the Miami Herald for about 30 years before leaving the paper several years ago, recently died. I have seen no obit, but I sincerely hope the Herald is going to…
Plantation Park Elementary, where my daughter goes, sends out a newsletter every month, and in the June edition, there’s a blurb titled: “Goodbye and Good Luck.” In it, seven teachers are listed as leaving due to budget cuts and ends: “We will miss their smiling faces!” One of the teachers, Mrs. Bramhall, was…
A suburban kid gets arrested for killing and gutting cats and crushing their skulls and leaving them in their owners’ yards the next morning and you know it’s all “he seemed like such a nice kid” and “suddenly the earth doesn’t feel so firm beneath our feet” and “who could ever know such…
The State Attorney’s Office has confirmed that it has an open investigation into Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion’s membership at the Parkland Golf & Country Club. More than a year ago, a source told me that a development company called Prestige Homes paid for Eggelletion’s membership at the country club, an amount that…
I wrote recently about the plan among the major three dailies (somehow “major” just doesn’t seem like the right word anymore) to share beat writers in the sports department. Well, the idea may be spreading to other departments. This just came across the Pulp’s transom: “Hey, a heads up — you ought to be looking…
Source just sent me this internal Sun-Sentinel memo, which contains “need-to-know info at the Big S media company” (it’s true, the Sentinel really does call itself the “Big S”). In addition to propagating one of the most nauseating (though apt) words in the history of the English language — “advergame” –…
Former Broward County School Superintendent Frank Till is finally going back to work. Till, who was fired by the School Board in 2006 for no apparent reason, today was chosen as the top school official in Fayetteville, North Carolina. I think it’s safe to say that Cumberland County made a solid choice. Look, Till…
I said I’d dig a little deeper on the case of perv cop Charles Grady, and I did. There has been a lot of speculation that one reason the former BSO deputy was let off easy for his on-duty sex-related crimes against women was because he was politically connected. I learned that Grady did…
The Sun-Sentinel has a story today about developer Bruce Chait reneging on on his promise to build some affordable housing at his planned 728-unit development in Tamarac. Chait, owner of Prestige Homes, had thousands of residents angry about his plan to develop the Monterey and Sable Palms golf courses. The commission voted 5-2…
This just in from a good source: The SS’s Weston office is closing and the 6 reporters and 2 editors out there are all gonna move on Friday to Tamarac. That means instead of just one reporter in Tamarac (Lisa J. Huriash) there will be 7. Unless things change, so I…
With fears of federal investigations swirling, rumors are flying around the Broward County commissioner like vultures on a desert highway. The subject of one of them is Commissioner Lois Wexler. It goes like this: Wexler took a spa weekend in Sedona, Arizona, shortly after her election to the commission on the tab of…
It’s official: Dave Aronberg is going to run for attorney general. I think the kid’s got a chance (we’re almost the same age, but he just seems so sparklingly fresh, this guy). Someone yesterday actually uttered those fantastical words… could Aronberg become… the first… Jewish governor of Florida? He’s got that…
I’m working on so much interesting stuff it’s not even funny, but none of it is just ripe yet, so I’ll just share with you an anecdote from my son’s last school day. The kid is finally leaving Seminole Middle School in Plantation for good today, none too soon. It’s a big,…
With less than a month to go before Election Day in 2002, Buddy Dyer was trailing Charlie Crist in the race for Florida attorney general. Dyer, who was then a state senator and is now mayor of Orlando, needed campaign cash to become the state’s top lawman. So he went…
