Sun Sentinel critic “Ellen Dalton” sent this screed a few days ago, but just now getting around to posting it. It refers to a story in the newspaper about the way property tax cuts might hurt the housing market. It doesn’t make sense to Dalton. Or to me. But our…

— Scott Wyman in the Sun-Sentinel reports that the Broward County Commission is floating an idea to take direct control of the airport from county staff. Don’t let them do it, people. The commission is already too cozy with lobbyists and such a move will turn management of the airport…

Yeah, Jim Naugle, Fort Lauderdale’s own Mayor Mouth, has made it to the New York Times, a newspaper he hates (he’s a self-proclaimed Rupert Murdoch kind of guy). Read it here. Reporter Abby “Not” Goodnough refers to the Sun-Sentinel as “a local paper” without citing it by name, which is…

Memo below was sent by management (something rather chillingly termed the “SS Administration”) to Sun-Sentinel employees yesterday about a new “authorization codes” they will get to make long distance calls. Also, the employees will have different “levels of access,” giving them all the more reason to climb that corporate ladder…

Right now, the lead story on the Sun-Sentinel’s web site is Hurricane Dean, which it blares “was still in position to easily attack the U.S. East Coast as it plowed west across the Atlantic.” Easily? Well it’s going to defy the laws of meteorology by plowing through a high-pressure area…

If you happened upon a bunch of greasy men in gold chains and busty, barely clad women last weekend, those were probably the movers and shakers of the Internet porn world. They congregated at Hollywood’s Westin Diplomat for the Internext Expo, a biannual convention that usually jumps between South Florida…

Channel 7 aired a Carmel Cafiero special about the ongoing investigation of Judge Larry Seidlin and Robert Zack last night. Click here to read and check out the video — it’s the best parsing of a story of mine I’ve ever seen on TV. Miami-Dade SAO public corruption unit Chief…

Dahmer and Toole Lurk In This Rogues Gallery The Primetime show on the Jeffrey Dahmer-Adam Walsh theory didn’t dissapoint. If you missed it, then read about it here. My thoughts on the case are clear. A few things that stick out from the half-hour segment narrated by the Cuomo boy:…

Let’s start his by saying that when Rick Sanchez interviews Jim Naugle on national television, it’s a sure omen that the world is nearing a fiery end. But that said, the mayor went off on the Sun-Sentinel and, though not by name, reporter Brittany Wallman (who is, as all of…

I’ve been meaning to post the edited Miami Herald letter below for a couple of days. It was first dug up by Herald Watch and posted on Critical Miami. The letter regards the arrest of Herald reporter Oscar Corral and was written by Paul Crespo, a journalist who has written…

Michael Mayo writes this morning about the arrest and jailing of Pompano Beach activist Joyce Tarnow at a Publix supermarket. Her crime: Trying to gather signatures for a petition to give voters direct power over development. I’ve met Tarnow and sat down in her living room. She’s a unique American…

Local true crime author Arthur Jay Harris tells me that ABC Primetime is going to break “amazing” new information about the Hollywood murder of little Adam Walsh tomorrow night, with the prime source being Harris, who has painstakingly been investigating the famous murder for years. While Adam’s famous father, America’s…

I was just thinking the other day that Dave Hyde hadn’t seemed to have written anything monumentally soppy or boneheaded in a good long while. Was he getting better or did I just not give a damn anymore? I didn’t know until now, the beginning of the football preseason. He’s…

Broward County sheriff’s deputy Chris Reyka was killed while on duty in Pompano Beach early this morning. Reyka, father of four, was shot behind a Walgreens store when he went back there to check out a suspicious vehicle. It makes two deputies shot in the head in Broward County in…

John DeGroot offers his take on Mayor Mouth: I enoyed the Sun-Sentinel’s 1-A Sunday profile on Fort Lauderdale’s who clearly fears both his God and Homos with Biblical fervor. However… It’s time the gay community faced the sordid truth about Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle and his latest cruel and…

It isn’t so much a how-to on influencing the Broward County Commission as it is a who-to. As in, who do you have to pay to sway the commissioners’ votes? Anybody who keeps up with Broward’s power crowd knows the inordinate sway that lobbyists hold over its elected officials. But…

I had to show y’all this photograph from Gov. Charlie Crist’s old frat days at FSU. In case you’re not sure, that’s him in the center. The grin. The mustache. The exposed midriff. Oh yeah, that’s Charlie, baby. For more, including a shot of Crist throwing a football in short-shorts,…

This new corruption angle regarding Sheriff Ken Jenne was made understandable by Wanda J. DeMarzo this morning in the Miami Herald. Basically King Ken was given $10,000 to help his developer Phil Procacci get his money back from a failed business venture. The implication is that Jenne was using his…

Ethically challenged Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter is debuting her new Saturday radio show on WFTL this weekend. She is quoted in the press release: “I want people to be informed about local Broward County issues. Syndicated talk show hosts know nothing about us. They don’t live in Broward County;…

When Rebecca Wakefield recently interviewed the Miami Herald’s Cuban beat writer Oscar Corral for a story in the SunPost, she led it this way. “Some days, it ain’t easy being Oscar Corral.” Today is one of those days. To wit: A Miami Herald reporter was arrested late Friday on charges…

This is the only picture I could find of Tom Wheeler (see comments in post below). He’s in the back row, second from left, just above Bobby Bowden. The picture comes from the archives of the FSU chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity (I should have figured Crist for…

Welcome to Monday, the last one where “Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne” won’t be preceded by the word “former.” That’s my prediction anyway, based on both sources and about three Sun-Sentinel “End Is Near” stories. Who’s Gov. Charlie Crist going to pick to succeed King Ken? Names I’ve heard floating…