September, 2009 Category

Sep 18 2009

Sources: Bev Gallagher Is A Target Of Feds

Filed under: General News

Beverly Gallagher says she has medical problems and can’t attend meetings. She may have.

She also has legal problems.
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Sep 17 2009

Updated: Alu’s Side Of The Story: “I Was Just Trying To Do What’s Right”

Filed under: General News

BY BUDDY NEVINS

Prosecutor Sheila Alu told me what drove her to disclose that 28 cops were under investigation and jeopardize an unknown numbers of criminal cases.

Here is a hint: It wasn’t politics. Read the rest of this entry »



Sep 17 2009

Alu Strikes Again; Threatens To Overturn Untold Number of Cases

Filed under: General News

BY BUDDY NEVINS

“Hurricane” Sheila Alu is at it again and this time her work threatens to throw the courthouse for a real loop.sheila aluSheila Alu
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Sep 17 2009

Geller Gets Another Fire Fighters Endorsement

Filed under: General News

BY BUDDY NEVINS

At some point Sue Gunzburger is going to have to put out the fire storm of endorsements blowing Steve Geller’s way.

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Sep 16 2009

Rothstein Goes More Democratic; Hires Larry Smith

Filed under: General News

BY BUDDY NEVINS

The Las Olas Boulevard GOP law firm of Rothstein, Rosenfeldt and Adler sees which way the wind is blowing:  Democratic.

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Sep 16 2009


Sep 14 2009

Four Democrats Kick Off Campaigns This Week

Filed under: General News

BY BUDDY NEVINS

The Democrats may be criticized for being tax-and-spend liberals, but they are downright conservative when it comes to fund raisers in Broward.

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Sep 12 2009

Ex-School Board Member: Developer Tried To Bribe Me

Filed under: General News

BY BUDDY NEVINS

The home developer in the bull’s-eye of a growing investigation into government corruption offered a School Board member what she called “a bribe — $5,000 in campaign contributions just prior to the vote on a highly controversial Tamarac project.

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Sep 11 2009

Pines’ Castillo: Legislature Ignores Needs Of Cities, Citizens

Filed under: Guest Column

BY ANGELO CASTILLO
Vice Mayor, Pembroke Pines

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Dear Friends,

My generation was taught not to leave to others the things we could do for ourselves. 

This lesson in self-sufficiency was handed down by our elders who had survived especially hard times.  It is a good lesson in self-reliance that comes to us not without exceptions.

For example, in cities, we depend on our State Legislature to fix statewide problems because they have the special powers, skills and tools to fix those problems best.  We rely on them to do those things for us, and expect them to stay out of our way when it comes to fixing local problems. 

They have their job, we have ours — this creates a certain order that should be reliable.

The problem comes when they refuse to do their job, when they allow statewide problems to go unfixed causing local concerns that we, as cities, are not in the best position to address.  Read the rest of this entry »



Sep 11 2009

Sam Fields’ Random Thoughts

Filed under: Guest Column

BY SAM FIELDS
Guest Columnist

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 VAN JONES

 
Jones is the green jobs guy who was forced to resign from the White House for two faux pas
 
The first one was slandering Republicans by calling them “assholes. A bit surprising since the law teaches us that truth is an absolute defense to slander. Read the rest of this entry »