Juiced: The Week in One Gulp

This was the week that Broward County played host to a Super Bowl shindig. While the New Times print edition gave our visitors a crash course in South Florida vice, the Juice attended media day and came back with an exotic array of photographic evidence that pop culture is a…

Source: Home Rehab Group Cooperating With Deerfield Beach Investigation

According to Deerfield Beach City Attorney Andy Maurodis, the Westside Deerfield Businessmen Association has provided the city with records that purport to show how the association spent the federal dollars distributed to it through a home rehabilitation program.Earlier today, we reported that WDBA funds are the subject of an internal…

Hollywood’s New Hire Talks Downtown Development

We were hopeful that Hollywood’s new development czar was a political outsider, but we weren’t sure until now. Tanja Gerhartz has no friends or family in South Florida. She had never been to Hollywood until she came down from New Smyrna Beach for an interview. And she has never heard…

Deerfield Investigating Payments Made to Poitier Family Business

In a move that could spell trouble for longtime Broward politician Sylvia Poitier, Deerfield Beach is conducting an internal investigation to determine how a nonprofit run by the vice mayor’s relatives spent federal housing dollars. As the city’s registered Community Housing Development Organization, the Westside Deerfield Business Association is entrusted…

Weston Man Charged in Hit-and-Run of Lauderdale Attorney and Wife

Irving Goldstein is in jail today, accused of being impaired when he struck Keith and Penny Grumer on Tuesday night at the corner of Weston Hills Boulevard and Weston Hills Drive. The Broward Sheriff’s Office is reporting that Goldstein abandoned his car after the accident. Deputies later found him wandering…

Lauderdale Digs Give Colts Pre-Game Edge

A prominent hotel industry blog has declared the Indianapolis Colts the Super Bowl champions in their pre-game hotel match-up against the New Orleans Saints. Credit goes to Fort Lauderdale’s Harbor Beach Marriott Resort, which in a side-by-side comparison was found to have rooms and amenities superior to the Intercontinental Miami.But…

Hollywood’s New CRA Director a Political Outsider

The city of Hollywood has named a former Orlando official to lead its Community Redevelopment Agency. Tanja Gerhartz previously worked as the economic development director in Orlando. More recently, she had her own private consulting firm. If that means she’s new to the South Florida political scene — and to…

Accused Child Molestor in Boynton May Have Had Multiple Victims

Chad Hullfish told Boynton Beach Police detectives that he molested his 8-year-old niece and that he may have also had illegal contact with his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter, according to a probable cause affidavit released today. In that document, Hullfish blames the incidents on the strain of having to change his…

George LeMieux’s Gotcha Interview With Secretary of Defense

This is embarrassing. On a day when U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates came to Capitol Hill to dramatically announce his department’s plan to ditch the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, Florida Sen. George LeMieux used his time at the mic to push an unrelated and absurd political agenda. Let’s roll…