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Coconut Creek Mayor Marilyn Gerber told me today that she thinks her city's $60,000 payment to Coconut Creek Life to subsidize her column and other city content is one of the few ways to inform voters what is going on in their city. "The major complaint we always get, always, always, is that people...

Alex Taylor is leaving the Palm Beach Post after just about eight months on the job. The following is a timeline of coverage on the publisher's short stay in South Florida. -- December 8, 2008: It's announced that Doug Franklin is vacating his short but awful bloody stint as publisher...

So I solved one of the outstanding mysteries of the indictment of GOP moneyman Alan Mendelsohn: The mysterious figure called "Contributor #4" is veteran Broward credit counselor Howard Dvorkin. But this really isn't about Dvorkin -- who almost surely isn't in any trouble -- but about the man who got him into...

What isn't South Florida smoking on this Tuesday morning?A deep-pocketed Israeli businessmen is vowing revenge against the Broward Sheriff's deputies who he said beat him up and hurled anti-Semitic slurs during a traffic stop for marijuana DUI in June. The Sun-Sentinel's Jon Burstein has quotes from an angry Guma Aguiar.The...

No hurricanes hit Florida but we had a blizzard of activity here at Juice. Local health care forums have been battle royals. We showed you video of the magic loogie that flew outside a town hall in Stuart. At Delray Beach, we listened patiently to the arguments of health care...

Amid a renewed budget battle with the County Commission, Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti has said he has nixed his plan to shut down the stockade and instead will loose upon society the jail's "criminally insane" population, a purge he promised would include "rapists, murderers, and other ne'er-do-wells."  "These inmates not only require incarceration...

Following is a news release from the campaign of Freda Stevens, a Democrat who is running for the state House seat in District 91. Stevens ran against state Rep. Evan Jenne in District 100 in 2008 and claims that Jenne, through a surrogate, offered her promises of campaign cash if she vacated his district and...

Welcome to the land of excess and instant gratification. You sensed it when you got off the plane or maneuvered into that I-95 exit lane. Or maybe it was the first time you spotted that shady, mustached man with sunglasses and a briefcase, standing conspicuously under a palm tree. This...

It seemed inevitable that Bill Scherer's name would come up in the wide-ranging federal investigation that is enveloping Broward County right now. Scherer, a prominent attorney, landowner, and power broker, has always had his hands in a lot of pots. One of them was Gulf Building Corp., a construction company that is...