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In case you haven’t heard, there’s this presidential debate thing going on at Lynn University in Boca tonight. And, as you might expect with these things, traffic is going to be a bit of a pain in the butt. Between 6 a.m. Monday and 2 a.m. Tuesday, Boca Raton Police…

Gary Root, a 71-year-old registered Republican from Naples, was arrested on a misdemeanor charge after he protested Obama in the most sarcastic way ever. Root was apparently unhappy with being taxed, so he went over to his local Democratic Party headquarters and threw a penny at the workers inside the…

If Bain Capital and its kind are giant vampire squids wrapped around the face of humanity, Palm Beach is where they shit. The wealth they extract sits frozen along the waterfront here as miles of palatial estates, massive excrements of money. There’s a reason it’s called filthy lucre. Mitt Romney came to…

The guy who Richard Nixon cheated out of the presidency is gone.George McGovern died Sunday at age 90. His loss in 1972 was the first presidential race I remember,. He was gonna get us out of Vietnam. He was gonna remake America. He wasn’t Richard Nixon.   I grew up in Minnesota,…

Fidel Castro Is Dead rumors are about as common as rain clouds over a South Florida sky. It’s happened so many times, people hear news of his demise and their reaction is mainly, meh. And, with Cuba’s state-run news being so paranoid about the rest of the world having any…

Remember Tropical Storm Isaac? What a pain in the ass storm that was. It was particularly damaging to Palm Beach County, which got smacked harder by Ike than Miami-Dade or Broward, leaving more than 8 to 10 inches of rain in the southeast part of the county, damaging schools, homes and…

Back in March, the non-profit watchdog group Integrity Florida put out a study that said Florida was number one in terms of being the most corrupt state in the U.S. Their study found that a whopping 1,762 of Florida’s public officials have been convicted of public corruption since 1976. From…

Federal officials are poised to deport a diabetic man this afternoon, despite a doctor’s insistence that he get a surgical procedure so he doesn’t go blind, local immigration activists say.  The case concerns an Ecuadorian man named Miguel Castillo-Santos, who was detained this past January at the Broward Transitional Center. His lawyer claims…

My brain exploded with excitement earlier this week. The catalyst: A help-wanted ad on Craigslist from a nonprofit in Pensacola for a Bigfoot researcher. The necessary qualifications were stringent, and the job duties exhaustive. Not only was the chosen researcher expected to develop an “actionable tracking program in designated geographic area,” but he or she…