BY BUDDY NEVINS

A Browardbeat.com reader has provided a link to court documents concerning Fort Lauderdale mayorial candidate Earl Rynerson.

As I wrote earlier, voters should decide for themselves how they feel about Rynerson after reading the documents.

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BY BUDDY NEVINS

There is at least one growth industry in the recession concealed weapons permits.

The state’s Division of Licensing reports a 151 percent increase in the past five years in concealed weapon permit applications.

Stories in The Miami Herald and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel blamed this on the election of Barack Obama and the fear that his administration will get tough on gun control.  Maybe that’s part of the reason.

But Tallahassee credited the recession and notes the trend has been taking place since September.  Read the rest of this entry »

BY BUDDY NEVINS

 
The Fort Lauderdale campaign for mayor is becoming interesting.

 
A few days ago I was leaked some court documents pertaining to candidate Earl Rynerson.

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BY BUDDY NEVINS

I left the South Florida Sun-Sentinel almost two years ago vowing never to look back.

I can’t live my life looking in the rear view mirror. Read the rest of this entry »

BY SAM FIELDS
Guest Columnist

(Sam Fields is a Fort Lauderdale lawyer and a guy who thinks a lot.  Today he is thinking about the Middle East.)

Christmas came late to the Middle East.

But it was one hell of a gift. It was the reality that the two state solution, which is backed by almost everyone, is dead. Read the rest of this entry »

By Buddy Nevins

There is a one reason why Fort Lauderdale’s city election is the biggest and most exciting and probably most combative campaign coming up money.

 
Fort Lauderdale is filled with endless financial possibilities for the business community.

There is a lot of money to be made from votes of the Fort Lauderdale city commission. 

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BY SAM FIELDS
Guest Columnist

(Sam Fields is a Fort Lauderdale lawyer, a rabid atheist and a non-believer of all things paranormal.)

Poor Gina Marie Marks.

If she had consulted a tax lawyer she would be a respected religious leader rather than a criminal on the lam. Read the rest of this entry »

BY BUDDY NEVINS

I’m vertically challenged.

At maybe 5-feet-5, the only folks I can look eye-to-eye are middle schoolers and maybe Ken Jenne.

It is natural that articles about height interest me.

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BY SAM FIELDS
Guest Columnist

I have generally been a supporter of unions. Their excesses pale when compared to a world where workers are blocked from organizing.

 
Accordingly, I am not happy to argue that they are flat out wrong on the “Card Check issue. Read the rest of this entry »

BY SAM FIELDS
Guest Columnist

(Fields is a Fort Lauderdale attorney and a outspoken liberal who dislikes Jeb Bush and everything he stands for.)

Today’s South Florida Sun-Sentinel has an interesting debate on its editorial page about Jeb Bush’s possible candidacy for Senate in 2010.

On one side, you’ve got the pro-Bush columnist Kingsley Guy.  On the other, the anti-Bush columnist Stephen Goldstein.

My thoughts: Bush and his ilk like to present themselves as moral anchors as evidenced by their concern for Terry Schiavo and  frozen embryos.  Read the rest of this entry »