Besides those in South Florida, there aren’t many homes designed by architectural legend Addison Mizner, and one of those few is in danger of demolition: La Ronda in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.But the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the 1929-built home has attracted a hero from South Florida in Benjamin Wohl, a…
For those waking to hurricane dread, dawn brings good news: Ana’s depressed and falling to pieces. Claudette gives a love tap to the Panhandle. And everybody’s stressing about Bill. But fortunately, the latest projections have this hurricane turning north toward open water, reports CBS4’s Craig Setzer.Hell with Hurricanes. In Hollywood…
Among the many lessons learned this week by Juice readers:Being a hospital district commissioner doesn’t necessarily mean you’re entitled to steer $2 million of its dollars to your favorite charity, or hook your brother-in-law up with a new job, or make up your own ethical guidelines.For a power-hungry city manager,…
Just two business days before the North Broward Hospital District board was to consider spending $2 million to sponsor an exhibit at Fort Lauderdale’s Museum of Discovery and Science, one commissioner was vowing to embarrass museum staff. This based on his obligation to “protect taxpayers” against a potentially foolhardy investment.It…
After 20-year-old Karari Ritchie was arrested Tuesday in the homicide case of a Taco Bell manager, Broward Sheriff’s detectives say he told them about a partner from Miami — but that was a red herring. Detectives believe he was trying to protect his older brother, Tesfaye Ritchie, but they say…
It’s a pity that not all commenters are as classy as those here at Juice. I’m reminded of this disparity after looking hopefully toward the comments field in this NBC6 Miami report about Damon Weaver, the 11-year-old African American boy from poverty-ravaged Pahokee who just might be the youngest person…
Is that your engagement ring? Yeah, whatever, Cinderella. Patricia Dash of Palm Beach Gardens is looking for its actual owner after finding the ring at the Palm Beach Grill a few weeks ago, and she took her search to WPBF instead of pawning it. I suppose that’s the nice thing…
Yesterday in Boca Raton, demonstrating for health care reform. Now there’s a thought! Also, interesting strategy not to mob a town hall meeting and chant about how we should deprive immigrants of health care. Now compare that political participation with the style that health care opponents practiced this week in…
Shortly after health care consultant Joseph Cobo was appointed by the governor to the board of the North Broward Hospital District in September 2007, the new commissioner allegedly approached the district’s general counsel with a bold request. Laura Seidman alleges that Cobo told her “that he and ‘some other commissioners’…
Just one more day of bearing the stress that comes with being a South Florida news consumer. Be strong!”How could Evan Jenne earn $60,000 last year from a company that didn’t exist until January of this year?” asks Amy Sherman in the Miami Herald. The state rep from South Broward…
Yes, that Larry Deetjen — the former Deerfield Beach city manager who was practically joined at the hip with mayor-turned-felony-suspect Al Capellini. Despite rumors that Deetjen would be swooping back around to take his old job back from Mike Mahaney — Mayor Peggy Noland doesn’t like the way Mahaney parks…
In a memo she wrote in April 2008, three weeks before resigning as general counsel of the North Broward Hospital District, Laura Seidman alleged that Commissioner Maureen Jaeger “misused her public office for her personal agenda.”Jaeger, Rebecca Stoll and Joseph Cobo are the three Broward Health commissioners who Seidman accused…
Kevin Bryant, a hulking offensive lineman who played for Anderson High School in Hollywood, has been kicked off the University of North Carolina football team following misdemeanor charges of assaulting a woman in Durham County, according to the News-Observer.Standing 6-foot-7 and weighting 350 pounds, Bryant was named by national recruiting…
Shortly before Laura Seidman was pressured to resign as general counsel of Broward County’s public hospital district last year, she expressed concerns that three of the district’s commissioners were “using their public offices and powers improperly and for their own purposes.” She named Commissioners Rebecca Stoll and Maureen Jaeger, both…
The Democrats’ side of the Florida Attorney General race, between Sens. Dave Aronberg and Dan Gelber can feel like a meeting of the Mutual Admiration Society. But it’s just not healthy to be always so measured and tactful, which is why it must have felt good for Gelber to wind…
Manhattan accountant Frank DiPascali confessed this week to his role in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, and he just might be the snitch that federal prosecutors have been waiting for. In particular, two Madoff associates in South Florida, Michael Bienes and Frank Avellino appear to have cause for anxiety.DiPascali’s intimate…
A tour of today’s Dailies:The dangers of opening a joint checking account with Paul Francois, the local Lothario who allegedly stole more than his wives’ hearts. The Miami Herald’s David Smiley reports. Prosecutors have identified 118 cases in the law enforcement oeuvre of Jonathan Bleiweiss, the Broward Sheriff’s deputy who allegedly…
This blog is merely the loose wingnut on an otherwise well-oiled media machine. Remember to pick up its ink-based big sister at a newsrack near you. Or at least click over to to the web version of these articles:During a period when the news has been filled with fibbing cops,…
That’s an actual advertisement from Spirit Airlines, the pride of Miramar. Clearly a shot across the bow at Virgin America, which is coming soon to the FLL…
Rick Lemack, who finished a close second one year ago in the Democratic Primary for Broward Sheriff, is now one of five candidates to be police chief of Gainseville. Lemack was previously an assistant chief in the Hollywood Police Department and an assistant city manager.But in the year since that…
A just-posted video of a turtle gliding through the water off Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, to soothe the conscience of those still feeling guilty about the bear who was slain for trying to make friends with people…
