A weird story out of Tampa Bay — according to WTVT, “Governor Rick Scott has agreed to write blogs for the Huffington Post.” Yes, it appears HuffPo will just be publishing the governor’s press releases verbatim:As Romney is turning up the heat on President Obama by stressing Florida’s problems, progressive…
Fire Ant — an invasive species, tinged bright red, with an annoying, sometimes fatal bite — covers Palm Beach County. Soon, his column will appear twice a week on The Pulp. Got feedback or a tip? Contact fire.ant@browardpalmbeach.com.Would the fine folks at an institution like Citigroup steal the pennies off…
On Friday, Rico Jerome Miller and Wardell Hall, both of the Bahamas, pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle six people into Florida.One would think that the craziest part of the story is that Miller and Wardell managed to sink the 22-foot vessel and had to be rescued by the U.S…
Updated Sunday, August 5: The National Immigrant Youth Alliance announced that Viridiana Martinez, Marco Saavedra, Ally Ruiz, and Daniel Alvarado — all DREAM activists — were arrested on Sunday. Martinez and Saavedra had just been released on Friday. “ICE wasn’t taking us serious so we needed to show them that this community is no longer…
A confession: On Wednesday, some New Times folk wanted to eat Chick-fil-A. Music Editor Liz Tracy and video guy Jake Katel stopped by a store in Pembroke Pines and discovered the hullaballoo around “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day,” in defense of Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy’s statement that Americans are “inviting God’s judgment”…
Looks like Palm Bay cops may have foiled another possible Lorena Bobbitt situation (she’s the lady that cut her husband’s dong off and threw it out her car window into a field). 30-year old Tarra Coppola was taken into custody after allegedly chasing her boyfriend with a fishing pole and…
It seems our news story this week on for-profit colleges struck a nerve. We’ve gotten a number of email responses from people who say they, like those in the story, feel they were misled or cheated by America’s for-profit education industry.They include Julio Lopez, who says he worked for 13…
Welcome to this week’s post of the Broward-Palm Beach edition of Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mug shots from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, and femmes fatale. Check out Miami New Times’ Riptide blog for the Miami-Dade edition…
Palm Beach County Health Department on Friday warned that an employee accessed patient files and stole dozens of names and social security numbers as part of an identify theft scam. Officers confiscated a list that included 86 names and social security numbers of former patients, but it seems the scam may have hit dozens more…
We’ve already the political ads flowing in, but there are about to be a lot more: As part of a huge $77 million ad buy, the reelection campaign of President Barack Obama has allocated about $13.3 million to Florida ads that are set to start running today, according to CNN…
On Wednesday, Democratic Florida Sen. Bill Nelson released an ad: He hates oil spills, it said. He likes education and his wife. It made no mention of his Republican opponent, which, if polling is to be believed, will be Rep. Connie Mack.Then, late Thursday, another ad. This one? Not as…
A 35-year-old Fort Lauderdale firefighter has been arrested on extortion charges after, police say, he illegally recorded a conversation and tried to use it as leverage to get information out of union president William Humpherey about a criminal investigation.Steven Loleski was held on $51,000 bond yesterday…
Former Chicago Bulls forward, local bar hopper, and occasional wedding-dress wearer Dennis Rodman has apparently written a children’s book. The NBA Hall of Famer has teamed up with screenwriter Dustin Warburton, who penned the cinematic masterpiece Spiders 3D to write Dennis the Wild Bull, slated to be released sometime in…
La-dee-dah, Sen. Marco Rubio doesn’t think the money Olympians get paid for winning should be taxed. As our colleagues in Miami point out this morning, Rubio has proposed that the prize money ($25,000 for gold, less for silver and bronze) given to winning athletes should be exempt from taxation. It…
Former Republican Gov. Charlie Crist is backing Democratic incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson in the race for the Florida Senate in yet another instance of Crist’s batting for the other team.Crist said yesterday, per the Tampa Bay Times, that he will be attending a fundraiser for Nelson at the home of…
On Wednesday, Viridiana Martinez picked up a phone at the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach and called Amy Goodman at Democracy Now. Martinez, a 26-year-old DREAM activist working with the National Youth Immigrant Alliance, calmly explained that she intentionally got her self detained a few weeks ago so she…
Inside the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California, a tense crowd of 17,526 is so quiet that even the top deck can hear Yin Alvarez frantically calling for help adjusting the parallel bars. “Let’s go,” the Cuban-American bellows in a heavy accent toward his wife, Maria Gonzalez. “Help me!” A…
Diana Medina’s prospects seemed bright. She graduated with honors from Pahokee High School in Palm Beach County and earned a graduate degree in health science education from the University of Florida. But then, after she put her career on hold to raise a child, she entered the tricky world of…
Good news, all you women who don’t want to die! Several lovely things are happening to help you stay alive this month: If you have insurance, as of today (or soon, depending on your plan), you’ll no longer face copays for numerous reproductive health screenings, contraceptives, breastfeeding supplies, annual checkups,…
Doctors Cynthia Cadet and Joseph Castronuovo were charged last year, along with 30 others, in participating in the George brothers’ South Florida pill-mill scheme that dished out millions of pain pills to patients from as far away as Ohio. So far, almost all of those people — including both Christopher…
We weren’t the only ones to post criticism of for-profit colleges this week (see the news item: “For-Profit Colleges Cheat Students and Get Away With It”).U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin has released a scathing report that criticizes the for-profit education industry, echoing many complaints that surfaced in an undercover investigation by…
A note to anyone contemplating taking a state job in Tallahassee: You will probably have to work in Tallahassee.For the second time this week, a Florida official has resigned to be “closer to home” or some such thing: Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson submitted his resignation yesterday, saying that his wife…
