… according to the Miami Herald’s Glenn Garvin. Damn, I actually like Maggie Rodriguez. Good for her…

I received this today under the subject line “Congrats to Bob Norman!”: CONGRATULATIONS! Gold Coast Magazine has named you “The Best of South Florida!” After a year of trying to uncover the area’s best gems, Gold Coast Magazine publicly reveals its prized list of people and places that define South…

The Miami Herald’s Hannah Sampson writes about a love-fest involving interim Supt. Jim Notter during a public meeting that occurred yesterday. The first man quoted is Dorsey Miller. ”I don’t think there’s anybody in America at this particular time who is more capable or better prepared to serve as superintendent…

All told, it might hustle residents right out of 1,000 homes. It could cut through precious wetlands, level a Hilton hotel, knock out a marina, and gouge 100 acres of fill dirt, piling it in unseemly ten-foot-high heaps. And it could cost up to $3 billion. Three cities — Hollywood,…

Remember when WFOR investigative reporter Mike Kirsch was arrested by police a while back If not here’s a nice rundown of stories from FLTV to get you caught up. Anyway, I somehow missed that his contract wasn’t renewed and think it’s a shame, from what I know, that CBS-4 caved…

It’s called the Deerfield Beach Insider and you can check it out here. The person running it is a mystery, but Mayor Al Capellini better watch his back, because DBI is charging hard into the corruption in that city, keeping daily tabs on a scandal emerging on a new Public…

Everybody in Broward’s political and journalistic circles has heard the rumor that Sheriff Ken Jenne is going down as a result of a recent federal grand jury investigation into his finances. I’ve heard from two sources that Gov. Charlie Crist has compiled a short list of who might replace him…

What a shock. Diego “Chico” Corrales, a sensational boxer involved in one of the greatest fights in the history of mankind, is dead at 29 after a motorcycle accident in Las Vegas. It was in that city that I watched him knock out Jose Luis Castillo in what was named…

Look, I’m done writing about the site for the planned high school in Weston, now known only as MMM. I’ve written about all I can on the matter and if taxpayers are willing to spend $50 million to buy and prepare a site for a school on a dead end…

We got the report from behind the Sun-Sentinel lines on Friday. On Sunday, Executive Editor Earl Maucker gave us the official line, setting the record straight on his newspaper’s falling circulation levels. But, as unofficial Pulp contributor John DeGroot mentions in his screed below, there aren’t any facts in it…

I am not going to add much to the piece of writing down below, only to say it’s an anonymous e-mail from a journalist at the Sun-Sentinel. It involves a meeting held in the building yesterday during which the reporting corps was lectured by Director of Marketing Jeff Levine and…

It was a busy week in sports, what with the NBA playoffs and NFL draft. I thought I’d while your time away this morning with a little arm-chair analysis on two key topics, beginning with: The Miami Heat There are only two players I really want to see back in…

It was showdown time in Weston. State and federal officials — from the water management district, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Interior Department — faced off last week with Mayor Eric Hersh and education officials about an ill-conceived school site on the edge of the Everglades. Beforehand,…

After retirement from the Sun-Sentinel, Buddy Nevins has foundsomething to do. I just wish it wasn’t suing me. It was filed by his lawyer, Christopher Fertig, and has to do with the Phil Busey blog post and article I did recently. This may get interesting, but there is no joy…

Elgin Jones of the Broward Times has busted another big one that I’ve been meaning to get up here. Click on this to get to the site and check out the scoop he got on a report detailing contamination from a garbage incinerator in the Durrs neighborhood. It’s frightening. Also…

— Stuck on the Palmetto has a great breakdown on the breakdown of former BSO sheriff Nick Navarro’s security company when $1.5 million worth of phones it was supposed to be guarding were stolen from a factory in the middle of the day. The guard instead was washing his car…

Yeah, the Pulp is returning to its roots today with this selection, and it’s definitely worth it. The Palm Beach Post’s Susan Spencer-Wendel gives us a damn good look at what appears to be a damn bad arrest that was based on a damn biased photo lineup. First there was…

In Sunday’s newspaper, Sun-Sentinel Editor Earl Maucker gave us a tutorial on what sells in the business of journalism, or, more precisely, what doesn’t sell. Namely “sensational” news, or at least not in a “meaningful” way. Note to Earl: Sales have nothing to do with meaning — you either get…

Tomorrow, the Society of Professional Journalists will host a discussion on network news featuring appearances by CNN’s Susan Candiotti, NBC’s Mark Potter, and ABC producer Arash Ghadishah. The title: “How to Break Into Network News … AND STAY THERE.” Still not sure if that’s a promo or a threat. Should…

You have your only-in-South Florida stories and your only-in-Miami stories. This is an only-in-Miami story…

What the flying hell is this new company in West Palm Beach called “Smallponds”?…

WPLG political reporter and sunday show host Michael Putney decided not to take that job with the investment bank after all, reports the Miami Herald’s Christina Hoag. Writes Hoag: Putney originally said he did not see a conflict since he has never covered banking, nor did he see a conflict…