Filed under: General News
BY BUDDY NEVINS
The Broward School Board has some good ideas about changing the way they do business, but they are off to a bad start.
They planned for the changes at what the Miami Herald called two “under-the-radar meetings.
Maybe they didn’t want the public to know they paid a California consultant up to $50,000 to run the meetings and some in the future. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: General News
BY BUDDY NEVINS
Wives taking over from their politician husbands are a long tradition.
Filed under: General News
BY BUDDY NEVINS
Steve Geller has scored again in his county commission race.
Geller has won his biggest union endorsement to date, the Broward County AFL-CIO. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: General News
BY BUDDY NEVINS
Sometimes it seems like multi-millionaire Ron Bergeron has put his name on everything in Broward — at least three dozen corporations including that ubiquitous road building firm that you see everywhere.
There is the Bergeron Rodeo Arena. The Bergeron Industrial Park. Bergeron Land Development. Bergeron Emergency Services, which does hurricane recovery. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Now Bergeron name has even reached into the food chain. He has his name on a hamburger:
Filed under: General News
BY BUDDY NEVINS
The Miami Herald gets it. Does the Broward School Board?
The Kafkaesque investigations of Broward school employees must stop, the Herald said today. Employees must get the same rights as everybody else. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: General News
Dear Buddy,
Wow…must have been a really slow weekend for news, Buddy.
I could defuse the entire story by saying that the e-mail was sent out by my wife, who is certainly entitled to belong to any groups she wants to…and I would think that you would check on something like that before you allege that I did anything wrong.
Da Judge
Filed under: General News
Dear Steve “Da Judge” Feren,
I know you were once the Democratic mayor of Sunrise and a Democratic state House member.
I know people in your party love you.
But Steve, you are a judge now. You’ve got to give up party politics. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: General News
BY BUDDY NEVINS
The no-bid $1 billion Wheelabrator waste disposal contract has holes in it big enough to drive a garbage truck through.
Details contained in the deal could wipe out any savings taxpayers are promised.
Lieberman supports no-bid deal
Filed under: General News
BY BUDDY NEVINS
The Florida Commissioner of Agriculture sounds like something we shouldn’t care much about in urban Broward.
Wrong.
Filed under: Guest Column
BY SAM FIELDS
Guest Columnist
When I first heard the name of this particular golf course it seemed as improbable as a synagogue name B’nai Himmler. I was sure it was a gag, an early April Fool’s joke.
