Mae Frances Feagin, president of Arlington Park Family in 2007, when the nonprofit accepted a $30,000 grant from the City of Deerfield Beach, declined to discuss how that money was spent during a brief phone call Tuesday evening.Juice had been trying to reach Feagin for the past week after having…
Today’s a day off for me, but before a signoff, a look at the local headlines for you workin’ stiffs:Bad sign for the Broward County School District, which realized that its probe of the transportation department was just “too big” to be handled internally. Officials have handed it over to…
Where’s a sex offender to live in South Florida? Well, judging by the restrictive policies in Broward cities, they should live somewhere else. They just didn’t plan on a GPS-wielding sleuth like Randy Young, a former sex offender who places his fellow convicts in local housing — the legal kind.Young,…
Chief Financial Officer Dawn Javersack is the latest member of the Broward Health executive staff to tender her resignation, following last month’s power shift on the hospital district’s board. On Friday, Javersack gave a one-month notice. She will be joining Boca Community Hospital, according to an email announcement by CEO…
Former Politico reporter Jonathan Allen heard all the predictable “liberal media” howls late this past year after he left to join a committee for West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. All that grief only to leave the Wasserman Schultz office after a mere 40 days — and go back to…
It hardly seems fair for the Broward Sheriff’s Office to be chasing speeders using a car like the one above: the Dodge “Ghost” Challenger R/T, which looks merely like some spoiled teenager’s hot rod, until the flashing lights come on.Fortunately for leadfoots, there’s only one Ghost Challenger patrolling Broward roads…
Here’s what’s happening this Tuesday morning in Broward and Palm Beach:John Goodman, the Wellington polo patron who ran a stop sign earlier this month and killed another driver, had a cocaine habit, according to the divorce filings by his former wife. [Palm Beach Post]Narcy Novack, widow of slain Fontainebleau heir…
Since October, Greater Fort Lauderdale has been enjoying the tourist revenue that comes with being a destination for transvestite folk dancers (from Canada). It’s all thanks to this article, which appeared that month in the Toronto Star, Canada’s most widely circulated daily paper.But this past weekend, the newspaper posted a…
At least two major construction contracts doled out by the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority in the past year were supposed to be advertised for competitive bids but were not. It begs the question of whether the recipients of those no-bid contracts received favors from city officials. And it comes while…
Well, congressional candidate Allen West had to do something to stand out at last week’s CPAC. That’s newly posted video of his speech. At 3:35, he says:A nation goes to war against an ideology. We are against something that is a totalitarian, theocratic, political ideology, and it is called Islam…
While the National Hockey League takes a break for the Winter Olympics, fans are keeping themselves busy with trade talk, and one of the hottest pieces of gossip involves a cornerstone of the Florida Panthers franchise: goaltender Tomas Vokoun.During these Olympics, Vokoun’s been terrific in net for a surprising Czech…
Larry Deetjen, the longtime city manager of Deerfield Beach now working in the Midwest, has landed his new city in legal trouble. The landlords of a minority-dominated housing complex in Oak Lawn, Ilinois, say that Deetjen, as village manager, made racially insensitive remarks about the building’s tenants. Last week, those…
The local headlines this Monday morning:Hollywood’s charter review committee has drafted a list of ethics reforms that would try to prevent incidents like the one that got former commissioner Keith Wasserstrom thrown in jail. But those reforms still need the support of the city seven commissioners. [Miami Herald]Broward State Attorney…
The former treasurer and vice president of the Deerfield Beach nonprofit group Arlington Park Family left that position after misgivings about the way the charity was spending the $30,000 it was given by the city.Archie McKeithen, 80, remembers attending a meeting in 2007, shortly after Arlington Park Family won the…
The black Mercedes that smashed through the front door of Windsor Diamonds in Fort Lauderdale this afternoon did not have a political motive. I say this because after yesterday’s kamikaze attack on the IRS building in Texas, we’re all a bit jumpy about people driving things into buildings where they…
Broward Health Commissioner Mike Fernandez is being investigated by the Broward State Attorney’s Office for criminal corruption. The investigation was launched after Juice reported potential conflicts of interest between Fernandez’s public office and his private work as a salesman for SonoSite, an ultrasound manufacturer that services the hospital district.He is…
A reporter for CNN’s Campbell Brown came to South Florida to hear Scott Rothstein’s Ponzi story from the man who’s been telling it better than anyone: New Times columnist Bob Norman. He appears at the one-minute mark of the video below. At the three-minute mark, Norman shows the reporter Rothstein’s…
They all hate taxes, so why can’t all tea partiers love one another? This week has revealed divisions within the tea party activist community of South Florida, and in Central Florida the infighting has spilled into the courts, where an Orlando radio host is being accused of “hijacking” the tea…
This South Florida winter has been the coldest since… I think the Ice Age, actually. Even we native Midwesterners are bitching. At the moment, it’s a chilly 50 degrees in Fort Lauderdale — the last bleak day before a warm-up, our local forecasters promise. Meanwhile, in Lauderdale, Minnesota, it’s currently…
