It used to be the best gravy train on the tracks: If you were a frat brother of Charlie Crist at Florida State, you could practically name your job. Harry Sargeant landed a prestigious gig as the finance chairman of the Republican Party of Florida. Crist appointed another “Pike,” Mike…
If you’ve followed the recent machinations of the Florida Bar Association, it’s hard to imagine it will hold Sen. George LeMieux accountable for what appear to be grievous professional sins he committed in 2008.But at least there’s some pressure building, as evidenced by this weekend’s Miami Herald article about the…
Here’s what happened in Broward and Palm Beach over the weekend:The Lynn University students who escaped the earthquake in Haiti gave their horrifying first-person account. Two of the students and the group’s two faculty advisers remain missing. [Palm Beach Post]Scott Rothstein has been a wrecking ball through Broward Sheriff Al…
Commissioner Marty Popelsky broke a 2-2 tie on the Deerfield Beach City Commission this evening, voting in favor of a resolution that terminated Mike Mahaney, the city manager of more than two years.The meeting was civil, by Deerfield Beach standards anyway. Commissioners Joe Miller and Sylvia Poitier teamed up with…
One last swig of the Juice from this past week:After the quake hit Haiti, we got in touch with local charities that work in the impoverished nation, like Living Water Ministries of the Palm Beaches, whose staff suffered injuries, and Planting Peace, whose orphanages were miraculously spared.In Parkland, a mystery…
That’s video of Marco Rubio from last night’s The Kudlow Report. At the 2-minute mark, Kudlow asks Rubio to respond to the recent profile in New York Times Magazine, which asked whether Rubio is “The First Senator From the Tea Party?”Of course, Rubio saw that question coming from a mile…
In just a few hours, the Deerfield Beach City Commission will hold its special meeting to vote on a motion by Commissioner Bill Ganz to terminate City Manager Mike Mahaney. I reached Ganz by phone a few moments ago to see whether he had been able to work out his…
That’s what former Rothstein business partner Roger Stone is reporting on his blog this morning. He says that former Heat center Alonzo Mourning played matchmaker in an encounter that took place in Miami Beach on the night of October 26 — just before Rothstein left for Morocco the following day…
As the images from Haiti get more horrific, Americans are digging into their recession-ravaged pockets to help the international aid effort. But these moments bring out the worst in people, too. Already, sham charities are constructing phony websites and sending spam solicitations.But besides avoiding those obvious villains, donors should try…
Your daily look at the headlines in South Florida:A contractor working in Haiti was mistaken in reporting that three of the twelve Lynn University students who were there on a charitable mission had been found. So the number of missing students is back up to four, along with two members…
A video version this morning. That’s Deerfield Beach at dusk, from this past weekend, courtesy MrDspee…
In yet another demonstration of Charlie Crist’s plummeting stock in the state Republican Party, a legislative committee has rejected the compact his office hammered out with the Seminole Tribe last year that would have allowed the Seminoles to keep theirLas Vegas-style games in exchange for annual payments to the state,…
Who’s up for a harrowing tale from the high seas? This comes from Annie Richey, who is traveling the world with Tom Gensemer aboard their retrofitted sailboat Emma. Richey recently posted an account of the Midwestern couple’s nearly catastrophic encounter with the Palm Beach Princess, the cash-strapped gambling barge that’s…
In what must be a pure coincidence, famous Floridians with a battered public image have sprung into action at reports of Haiti’s crisis. Tiger Woods, it seems, it just a little slower to react than Charlie Crist. On his Twitter feed, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons says that the philandering golfer…
Since that CBS News report, the Palm Beach Post is reporting that four of the Lynn University students have contacted family to report that they’re safe. But that still leaves two faculty members and one student — Dr. Patrick Hartwick, Dr. Richard Bruno and Chistine Gianacaci…
U.S. aid workers are pretty busy today, what with Haiti experiencing apocalyptic conditions and all. But the coordinators of that incredibly complex and chaotic rescue effort surely have enough time to chat with our Broward-born Sen. George LeMieux, who wants to learn about their effort. Otherwise, he won’t be able…
The catastrophe in Haiti dominates the headlines in South Florida and around the world:The Port Au Prince airport is now taking chartered flights and aid has arrived — just nearly enough to meet the dire need for water and fuel. [New York Times]Lynn University in Boca Raton learned late last…
Leave it to that old and ornery quote machine Alcee Hastings to bust up the scrum of politicians descending on Haiti. In a statement that the Central Broward Congressman just released, he opened with the usual buzzwords like “sorrow” and “tragic,” but then he gracefully stepped out of the way…
Young Andrew Perez is a bit like the canary in the coal mine. The Plantation native was hired three years ago, as an 18-year-old intern at Rothstein Rosenfeldt & Adler, working there for the past three summers. He swears he once remarked to another associate at the firm that he…
The four Hollywood Police officers who had a role in a fabricating a police report to conceal an officer’s role in a traffic collision have lost their appeal and have been terminated from the department.The incident stems from a collision that occurred on the night of February 17, when officer…
