See also Connie Mack Continues Stupid Health Care Posturing. We’ve seen plenty of posturing already from Republican U.S. Rep. Connie Mack — now a candidate for Senate — about the Affordable Care Act — even last week, he was slamming his opponent, Bill Nelson, for supporting it.This came into particular…
Read more about Aguiar’s support for a sex-soliciting Rabbi and troubled marriage.Guma Aguiar’s mom and wife will meet in court today to argue over who will get control of his $100 million estate after he disappeared at sea last Tuesday, but headstrong women might not have been all he was…
Late on Tuesday night, a boat belonging to Guma Aguiar washed up on Fort Lauderdale beach, engines running, the cell phone and wallet of the Floridian Jewish multimillionaire reportedly still onboard. Since then, people have speculated: Was it a dead-of-night escape plot to keep his mother from declaring him mentally…
The scene of Guma Aguiar’s life before his disappearance at sea Tuesday night launched a strange soap opera, with his wife and mother battling over his estate, according to court documents and a lawyer for Aguiar’s mother.Richard Baron, an attorney for mother Ellen Aguiar, told ABCNews.com that Jaime Aguiar had…
Back in January 2011, Charles Harper was facing stalking charges from his terrifically estranged ex-foster dad, Broward Circuit Judge John Bowman. The kid was an adult by then and didn’t have much money to speak of, but public defenders were dropping him like a hot potato because of perceived possible…
This week’s feature is on two investigators who were kicked out of the Attorney General’s Office a year ago but keep trying to uncover foreclosure fraud however they can.In late 2010, robo-signing was just making it to the public consciousness, a sign of our economic downfall in which overworked employees…
One day in November, June Clarkson stepped out her front door in Hollywood to see a Local 10 news van parked outside. They were filming a public-nuisance story on the property next door to hers, which had been in foreclosure for around two years and was now covered with unsightly,…
June Clarkson went to Ernie’s Bar-B-Q in Fort Lauderdale to have lunch with her supervisor, Bob Julian; and some coworkers. It was a Friday in May 2011, the end of a hectic workweek at the local economic crimes unit of the Office of the Attorney General. Clarkson, a small, lively…
For a long time, South Florida has been a three-newspaper land. The Palm Beach Post, the Sun-Sentinel, and the Miami Herald all overlapped to some degree, giving this stranger-than-fiction region a little competition in the newspaper business. That sets us apart from the rest of the country, but it’s all…
On a day when President Obama announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will take steps to stop deporting people who came to the U.S. illegally as children, there’s more big news on immigration close to home.ICE has issued a press release to the media, as reported by Local 10…
When we were putting together this year’s Best of Broward-Palm Beach edition (out on the streets now), we stumbled across an old category we had dreamed up for something else: Best Meetup group (i.e. on Meetup.com). I had just finished reporting a story about local preppers getting ready for a dollar…
A year ago, a local union did what public employees across the state and the nation would have liked to do: stood up and declared its disgust with the Republican Party, encouraging its Republican members to drop their affiliation.This was the Broward County Police Benevolent Association, which held a “Party…
It’s a Wall Street Journal editor’s wet dream, splashed across the opinion page today: “Castro Endorses Obama.”Mariela Castro, niece to the tracksuit guy and daughter of Raul, calls herself a “sexologist,” and her work, according to Journal columnist Mary O’Grady, “has something to do with advocating for gay, lesbian, bisexual…
Move down here for work, love, or sunshine and after a while, you start to melt into the place. You adopt the weird habits and mannerisms of the natives, who once were just like you: people running from something up north. After a while, the weather, people, and wildlife don’t…
One day in February, we sat down for a get-to-know-you interview with Scott Israel, who’s running in the Democratic primary this August to challenge Al Lamberti in the Broward County sheriff’s race. Since then, his campaign has retweeted our story dozens and dozens of times — we can’t count exactly…
Odebrecht, the giant Brazilian company that has a $225 million contract to help build the new runway at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, is suing the state over a histrionic law that Rick Scott signed last month in Miami, banning state and local governments from doing major business with companies with…
Here’s a conundrum. Last week, via the environmentalist group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, we got wind of some notes from a meeting of state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) officials last year that showed some unorthodox — some might say laughable — ideas. Our brief blog item on the…
Hello. You pay taxes in Florida, and have a stake in state-owned lands and public parks. So naturally, you want the state to save money on those lands, and would be supportive of such enterprising ideas as building a privately run wood-pellet mill on public land that will sell product…
A couple months ago, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler was on the radio one fine Saturday, after spending the morning on his hands and knees along with local volunteers planting gardens of tropical foliage in Stranahan Park. With Seiler’s record of trying to get the homeless to disband from the…
Texas Hold ‘Em BBQ now operates a high-visibility restaurant and bar at Federal Highway and Sunrise Boulevard, but a smaller outpost in downtown Lauderdale that won some New Times honors didn’t fare so well.The tiny location on SE Seventh Street, behind the Andrews Avenue Publix near the Broward courthouse, shut…
I was looking up some financial terms on Investopedia the other day when I came across an interesting item: the Hot Waitress Economic Index, which posits that the worse the economy, the hotter the wait staff at your favorite restaurant will be.The theory is that in good economic times, hot…
I was checking out at Publix a few days ago when a man came up behind me in the express lane, put down his sandwich, and started muttering about whether they would screen him for putting terrorist weapons in the sandwich and how there is “no freedom left in this…
