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School Board’s Donna Korn Launches Re-election 27 Aug 2013 | 01:07 am
BY BUDDY NEVINS Donna Korn, the maverick School Board member who walloped a darling of the Democratic Party machine last year, has opened her campaign for re-election. Donna Korn A c...
Sheriff’s Empire Crumbling: SW Ranches Wants Davie Cops Instead of Deputies 27 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am
BY BUDDY NEVINS Sheriff Scott Israel’s empire is crumbling. Southwest Ranches is now following Deerfield Beach’s lead, exploring whether to cancel its policing contract with the sheriff. Town...
Update: Demos Fed Up With Sheriff’s Blunders 22 Aug 2013 | 07:32 pm
BY BUDDY NEVINS I’ve watched Sheriff Scott Israel stumble from one misstep to another during his first eight months in office. Within hours of his taking office, Israel allowed former Sh...
GOP Gets Lucky; D’s School Candidate Quits 22 Aug 2013 | 06:49 pm
BY BUDDY NEVINS The Democratic candidate hoping to take back a School Board seat from the GOP has quit the race after only a month. Robin Behrman ended her campaign against Republican Donna...
Tamarac Recall Successful! Election To Be Set 21 Aug 2013 | 08:29 pm
BY BUDDY NEVINS Tamarac Commissioner Patte Atkins-Grad is headed to a recall election. The Supervisor of Elections today told recall supporters that they had collected 2,296 valid signature...
Protest Fails To Stop Project; Big Tree To Move 21 Aug 2013 | 05:09 pm
BY BUDDY NEVINS In the end, it wasn’t even close. Even the whisper campaign with tinges of anti-Semitism failed to stop the new waterfront complex. The flyers, the petition and relentless a...
Ken Keechl Gets Some Help From Old Friends 21 Aug 2013 | 02:33 am
BY BUDDY NEVINS Former County Commissioner Ken Keechl, who is running to reclaim his old seat, is getting some help next month from some old friends – the bail bond industry. Keechl was one...
No Criminal Probe Of Lawmakers’ Residency….Yet 19 Aug 2013 | 11:21 pm
BY BUDDY NEVINS State Attorney’s investigators does not have an “active investigation” into whether Broward legislators lied about where they lived….yet. Here is the office’s short statemen...
Healthcare: Libertarian Style 19 Aug 2013 | 04:25 am
BY SAM FIELDS The other night I had an epiphany about healthcare costs. The Libertarian Right is right. I was watching The Daily Show. I was listening to Alice Rosenbaum [aka Ayn Rand] acolyte...
Election HQ Deal Remains Up In The Air 17 Aug 2013 | 06:41 pm
BY BUDDY NEVINS As Yogi Berra said, “It ain’t over until its over.” And the search for a new Broward elections headquarters/ voting machine warehouse is far from over despite the commission...
