Kelvin Baker packs up his traveling circus and hits the road.
Despite a valiant effort to keep their city manager, last Tuesday night the Lauderdale Lakes commission voted to send Kelvin Baker packing. On Wednesday, the Sun Sentinel first reported that the sticking point was the…
Tallahassee lawyer Mark Herron wrote the book on ethics. Oh, wait, never mind. (Part 1)
Forget tourism. Public corruption has become one of Florida’s major industries. Each election cycle presents the opportunity to create more wealth for a handful of individuals who profit from campaigns all over the state. Some…
Opa-locka’s Theater of the Absurd. Co-starring Myra Taylor and Kelvin Baker!
Once again, the news out of Opa-locka is making jaws drop as the bizarre details of political greed, stupidity and unbelievable sense of entitlement are being exposed. From the You Can’t Make This Up files…
Lauderdale Lakes Breaking News: Kelvin Baker resigns!
Lauderdale Lakes City Manager Kelvin Baker is packing up his traveling circus and hitting the road. In Lauderdale Lakes city manager resigns in dispute with commission, the Sun Sentinel just reported that “Baker announced his…
Opa-locka: Oops, there goes another one!
It didn’t take long for Wilfredo A. Ferrer to convince former Opa-locka City Attorney David Chiverton to see things his way. Twelve days after the city’s Assistant Public Works Director Gregory Harris pleaded guilty to…
I was almost ready for some football, but nah. Then this happened.
Every summer for over forty years I eagerly looked forward to the start of football season. Football has always meant so much more to me than just the game my father taught me to love. …
SD 38, the “race” is on!
If you’re freaked out that Daphne Campbell won the Democratic primary for State Senate District 38, you’re not alone. I had my theories how she pulled this off, but until now I was leery about…
Opa-locka Mayor Myra Taylor gets no respect!
It’s bad enough that Opa-locka is thisclose to losing its City Hall in foreclosure. Even worse, the county just took control of the city’s water department. But horror of horrors, the Governor’s appointed oversight board…
And now, a quickie from the Shitz’n’Giggles file…
Just for the hell of it, I googled “Jason Bloch.” And something really funny popped up.
Election results: Good news, bad news, awesome news!
My extremely unscientific and mostly arbitrary recommendations for yesterday’s election resulted in my successfully “predicting” eight out of thirteen races. I would have done my gloating last night except that I lost power at 8:00…
