Why go through all the trouble of vetting a company that wants a big pile of cash from the town when the town has a high-ranking official who can vouch for them?If you said “conflict of interest” then congratulations! But you’ll never make it in Jupiter.Today’s South Florida Business Journal…
All this worrying about serial cat killers and serial horse killers has led us to overlook the very serial nature of how lawn-care equipment has been vanishing from North Palm Beach County.The latest one occurred before dawn broke, between 4:40 and 5 this morning at the Lake Worth Public Works…
Congressman Kendrick Meek, the leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate just released a statement about Charlie Crist’s announcement that he was appointing former chief of staff George LeMieux to the Senate seat vacated by Mel Martinez.From the moment Senator Martinez announced his retirement, Governor Crist placed his ambitions over Florida’s…
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department just issued a news release saying that someone tried to rob the Bank of America at 3030 Davie Boulevard, near with intersection with SW 31st Ave.That’s the bank pictured above, as seen from SW 31st. Police spokesman Sgt. Frank Sousa says that a suspect is…
As far as I can tell — and I’m going by this list, the most immediate one available — there has never been a U.S. Senator from Broward County. So what does it say about this county’s history of incestuous, corrupt politics that the breakthrough would finally come not through…
It seemed too nakedly cynical to be possible — and yet it just happened. Pass the smelling salts.We warned Charlie Crist this could be his Harriet Miers moment. He didn’t listen — to us or to the people in his campaign who must have had the same anxieties. If Crist…
Operation Show Me the Money was a big hit for the Fort Lauderdale Police, who invited people with outstanding warrants to collect stimulus checks only to be arrested. In this fashion, they corralled 76 bad guys. Not bad, but cops can’t rely on stimulus checks every year, so we’ll need…
Robert Fletcher, a literary agent and publisher said to be based in Boca Raton, has been named as a scammer by a group called Writer Beware, which protects authors against being cheated in the publishing industry. Publishers Weekly is reporting that Fletcher, who sued Writer Beware for defamation in 2008,…
It’s Friday morning. Let’s tackle the toughest issue first.In what may be the final straw for South Florida working families, the Dolphins looked totally uninspired while playing a game that doesn’t count — even though they won (which might cheer us up, but since it doesn’t count, no). Both Dave…
The last time we talked to Bobby Rogers, the troubled founder of the Fort Lauderdale-based Future of Wrestling told us he was finished with the self-destructive sport and encouraged his fellow wrestlers to kick it, too. “Wrestling is a sickness, because we’re addicted to the attention, addicted to the adrenaline…
Who to blame for the sudden crisis that has gripped the baseball hat industry, whose condition is mourned in the New York Times? Could it be the performance enhancing drugs that have cut a wide swath through All-Star Game rosters, ruining the game’s glamor? Could it be this popular website,…
Gunmakers usually aren’t keen on giving media interviews, but then maybe it’s hard to pass up a chance to talk about the M76, the most exciting addition to the arsenal of Delray Beach-based Century International Arms.A salesman at that office told me that they’re a popular item — “Daddy of…
Dominique Duval, the 23-year-old woman from Lauderhill who was allegedly abducted in Fort Lauderdale yesterday evening, was found shot late last night. She later died of a gunshot wound to the neck. From the release by Hollywood PD: On Wednesday, August 26, 2009, at approximately 11:20 p.m., detectives from Hollywood’s…
Christy Turlington turned 40 this year, and despite having spent a good portion of those years jet-setting to exotic locations, strutting down runways, and hanging with friends like Bono, the memories that have recently taken hold of her were formed 30 years ago in Palm Beach County, the last place…
Fort Lauderdale Police are looking for the rusty Mercedes that 25-year-old Antoine Joseph allegedly used to kidnap an ex-girlfriend, Dominique Duval, 23, last night in north Fort Lauderdale. From Sgt. Frank Sousa’s news release: Preliminary investigation has revealed that the victim was leaving her place of employment when her ex-boyfriend,…
This morning’s news contains hope for justice and renewal.It’s traumatic just to read about the Dunbar Village trial, which Susan Spencer-Wendel is covering for the Palm Beach Post. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be at the trial and for the victims to have to relive that terrifying night…
Highlights from this week’s print edition:Michael J. Mooney follows world-famous skeptic James Randi from his Fort Lauderdale institute to Las Vegas, where despite faltering health Randi is galvanized by a hero’s reception. Just don’t call it magic.Bob Norman gives a gold star (for tax dollar waste) to Broward School District…
The sidewalks of Broward and Palm Beach County are a little bit less explicit now that the New Times cover story about zoophiles I wrote for last week’s issue is to be replaced by this week’s issue. But before we leave that subject, which generated robust debate on this blog,…
Like so many in this market, Eileen Miller wants to sell. But the owner of two small hotels on Hollywood Beach — the Swan and the Mermaid — is up against a formidable adversary. The City of Hollywood, which is also a seller and whose commissioners and staff are under…
A month after a national magazine named Resveratrol Ultra among the drug supplements that profit from what appear to be misleading advertisements and in the week following its being mentioned in a similar context in the New York Times and then sued by Oprah Winfrey, that same controversial product is…
