Looks like Cooper City mayoral candidate Gary Ross can start planning that victory party early. His opponent, Gary Laufenberg, tearfully announced he is dropping out of the race. The reason: Laufenberg is basically taking the bullet for campaign aide and family friend Ryan Shrouder after he was caught stealing a…
Polls are tight in Florida as the presidential election mercifully grinds down to its final days, and anything can and will happen in the Sunshine State, because that’s just how we roll. A Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News Poll have Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in a virtual tie in…
We’ve been predicting it for months, and new data from the Department of Health now confirm it. Whooping cough cases are the highest they’ve been in Florida for the past decade, and probably a lot longer than that. As of Tuesday, there have an astonishing 515 cases around the state, according to DOH…
Earlier this month, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama spent most of their second debate falling over each other to prove who cares more about middle-class voters. “The middle class is getting crushed,” Romney said. “That’s what this election is about. It’s about who can get the middle class in this…
Are you ready for Tuesday’s election? Having flashbacks to 2000, when Florida’s sleazeball recount decided the election of George W. Bush? Well, as likely as not, we in Florida will choose the president again this year. With 29 electoral votes up for grabs, ours is by far the largest swing…
According to a letter Jose Lambiet of Gossip Extra reportedly came across, Rep. Allen West said he wanted his wife to be his “porn star.” The handwritten letter, which Lambiet says was written by West in Iraq in 2003, reads like a Penthouse Forum letter, as West allegedly tells his…
As if early voting wasn’t a butt-hurting experience already. Broward voters who have hit up the Tamarac Branch Library to do some early voting have seen their cars towed away from a strip mall across the street after after being forced to park there due to a full library parking…
Rick Scott’s decision to opt out of participating in the expansion of the Medicaid health insurance program in Florida could cost public hospitals billions and billions of dollars. This according to a new study by the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (whom we’re sure will get called…
Lost in the hoopla that was the amazeballs that was the Miami Heat championship ring and banner pregame ceremony was NBA Commissioner David Stern taking a moment to remember the victims of the recent storm that hit the North Atlantic by calling it Hurricane Katrina. “Before we begin, I know…
If you’re among the 1.4 million Floridians who have decided to vote via absentee ballot this year, your voice might not get heard. Because FLORIDA! Also because PAY ATTENTION. Basically, because we live in the Voting Fuckup Capital of the World, absentee ballots have been known to go to the…
By now, more than 2 million people have already voted in Florida, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the state’s voters and trouncing early concerns that voter-suppression measures would stymie turnout. We already knew how bogus concerns over voter fraud were, but does the same go for our trepidation regarding voter…
A set of motions filed Monday night delayed the resentencing of reggae singer Buju Banton on a federal gun charge.One motion again asked for the judge to reconsider resentencing Buju, while the other requested an entirely new trial on all charges based on New Times reporting that indicates a juror…
The Miami Heat kicked off the 2012-12 season last night by first getting its championship rings and then by sticking a foot into the Celtics’ assholes. ‘Twas a glorious night indeed. And while traditionally ring ceremony games have been a snoozer, mainly because the team getting the rings were still…
Early voting is all the rage this election season. More than 80,000 voters flocked to the booths this past weekend to pick the president. But this is Florida, where nothing ever goes as planned.Complaints have already rolled in about long lines and wonky machines. To get a feel for what…
There’s one more week of campaigning (*party streamers and fireworks!*), and polls show an ever-tightening race between Allen West and Patrick Murphy. In August, the DCCC polling people reported a tied race. Then, on October 1, the Garin-Hart-Yang poll reported Murphy with a lead. Now comes a new Public Policy…
Nine men have been arrested for gambling on pee wee football games, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office. The Lauderhill and Fort Lauderdale police departments, as well as the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office and the United States Marshals Service, all joined forces in an 18-month-long investigation called “Operation Dirty…
Hurricane Sandy was downgraded to something called a post-tropical cyclone, which we think probably means “like a hurricane, except not.” Either way, Sandy was a menace. Her post-tropical cycloneness slammed into the North Atlantic, leaving water and wind devastation all over parts of New York and New Jersey. Millions are…
This is the second post in a two-part series about the BSO’s fondness for TV cameras.On February 1, 2011, two bald, white Broward Sheriff’s deputies were talking to Devin Matthews, a 32-year-old black man, as he stood on his front yard. Detective Andrea Penoyer, a beautiful blond woman in tactical…
The NBA season kicks off tonight when the Miami Heat hosts the Boston Celtics. But before that, the Heat players will be receiving their championship rings and unveiling their 2011-12 NBA Finals Champions big-ass banner that will hang in the rafters at the American Airlines Arena like a giant pair…
It’s been four days. Just four days of early voting. But our New Times freelance photographer, Ian Witlen, says at least one voting station in Broward County is already having troubles.It went down like this. He got to the Northwest Regional Library at 7:30 yesterday morning to get his vote…
In three days, more than 480 people have signed a petition to save the Mayan Beach Sand Dune in Fort Lauderdale from destruction.Spearheaded by the Sea Turtle Oversight Protection, the petition is the latest development in a battle between developers and environmentalists that has stretched for more than a year.”Private…
In some cases, it’s taken five minutes, in others, almost three hours, but people on Broward and Palm Beach Counties are coming out in droves to vote early. Nearly 80,000 people hit the early-voting booths over the weekend, with the biggest turnout coming from Broward, which recorded 54,338 early voters…
