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Residents, businesses fight over Fort Lauderdale noise rules
Source: Broward Politics
Sep 4, 2010 10:33 pm
FORT LAUDERDALE It’s 11 p.m. on a Saturday, and the Hard Drinkin Pickles are ending their gig for the night at the Elbo Room to avoid hefty city noise fines. The band must stop playing, even though the beach will be packed with people for hours…
Mayor Keechl says opponent LaMarca is "throwing flames'' and "insulting my colleagues''
Source: Broward Politics
Sep 4, 2010 4:31 pm
Broward County Commissioner (and current Mayor) Ken Keechl said he'll debate his Republican opponent Chip LaMarca before November's general election. But, he said, he's not going to give him a bunch of free publicity. Keechl said LaMarca is out "t…
Democrat says Jennifer Carroll pick could help Republicans with black voters
Source: Palm Beach Politics
Sep 3, 2010 9:04 pm
Clarence Anthony – former mayor of South Bay in Palm Beach County, former president of the National League of Cities, and former member of the Democratic National Committee – said Democrats will need to explain Republican lieutenant governor cand…
Cooper City Commissioner Neal de Jesus calling it quits
Source: Broward Politics
Sep 3, 2010 8:40 pm
By Susannah Bryan Cooper City Commissioner Neal de Jesus is leaving office, effective Nov. 2. He plans to serve until Nov. 2, when the city will hold an election for his and two other commission seats. De Jesus, elected to office in 2008, could…
Black political leaders dissect the implications of black Republican lieutenant governor pick
Source: Broward Politics
Sep 3, 2010 5:47 pm
Black Democratic leaders from Broward said Republican governor candidate Rick Scott made a smart move by picking a black candidate, state Rep. Jennifer Carroll of Jacksonville, as his running mate. U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar, said it wouldn…
Do Pilon and Feehan stand a chance?
Source: Political Insider
Sep 3, 2010 5:41 pm
Every time I write about the re-election campaigns of State Reps Keith Fitzgerald and Doug Holder I get one question over and over again. “Are they really in any danger?” My answer: yes. Sure Fitzgerald, a Democrat, and Holder, a Republic…
Are Judicial Nominating Commissions pure or political?
Source: Broward Politics
Sep 3, 2010 5:03 pm
Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein Finkelstein said the appointment process for filling judicial vacancies is intensely political. “The Judicial Nominating Commission is stacked so that it has become nothing more than the political ap…
Push is on to end elections for circuit judges, appoint them instead
Source: Broward Politics
Sep 3, 2010 4:09 pm
The unprecedented number of challenges to sitting circuit court judges in 2008 and 2010 has so traumatized Broward politicians, judges and lawyers that there’s a move to change the judicial selection system. “The whole process, quite fra…
Black Democrats strategize for 2010 elections
Source: Broward Politics
Sep 3, 2010 2:05 pm
Ruth Lynch Black voter turnout surged in 2008, when then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama energized the public and drew people to the polls who’d never voted before. Now that Democrats are facing a bleak midterm election –…
Fort Lauderdale, Seiler raising money for 2011 St. Patrick's Day
Source: Broward Politics
Sep 3, 2010 2:00 pm
Mayor Jack Seiler and the city of Fort Lauderdale are already planning for next year’s St. Patrick’s Day party. The mayor will be participating in a golf outing Sept. 19 to raise money for the parade and bash next March. The city is char…
Broward Commissioner Ritter: "I don't care'' how much inspector general office costs
Source: Broward Politics
Sep 3, 2010 1:00 pm
Ballot items to change the county charter are required to come with a financial warning of sorts -- an estimate of how much the change would cost. Despite that, voters will have no idea how much a proposed countywide Inspector General corruption watc…
County making good on promise to time traffic lights
Source: Broward Politics
Sep 2, 2010 6:01 pm
By Brittany Wallman and Michael Turnbell Drivers on Broward Boulevard might have already noticed it: All these green lights! For the first time in years, drivers commuting into or out of downtown Fort Lauderdale on Broward Boulevard can actually mak…
Crist appoints magistrate to Broward circuit bench
Source: Broward Politics
Sep 2, 2010 3:56 pm
Tonya Alanez reports: Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday named General Magistrate Nicholas Lopane as Broward's newest judge. Lopane, 44, has served as a general magistrate since 1999.
Fort Lauderdale to pay $38,000 for affordable housing referendum
Source: Broward Politics
Sep 2, 2010 2:00 pm
Fort Lauderdale is stuck with paying $38,000 to ask voters this November a question about affordable housing. When city commissioners recently learned of the bill, they asked their attorneys if it was too late to back out of the vote. City Attorney…
St. Pete Mayor Foster's Pinellas Commission picks: Harris, Latvala
Source: Bay Buzz
Sep 2, 2010 1:47 pm
St. Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster, a Republican, told the Bay Buzz Thursday that he's supporting Democrat Calvin Harris, and -- after initially demurring -- Republican Susan Latvala in their bids to stay on the Pinellas County Commission. The Latvala …
Broward Democrats plan Labor Day gathering
Source: Broward Politics
Sep 2, 2010 1:10 pm
Broward Democrats are holding their 9th annual Labor Day Picnic on Monday. The event typically draws rank-and-file Democrats, and lots of politicians, from all over the county. Speakers include two Democrats in tough political races this fall: U.S.…
St. Petersburg police chief updates City Council on the consequences of two key votes
Source: Bay Buzz
Sep 2, 2010 12:44 pm
ST. PETERSBURG -- They were two of the biggest votes this year the City Council had to make, stirring up plenty of controversy. Earlier this year, the Council voted to loosen the city's chase policy, so that officers could pursue...
Face of the layoffs: County employee living "one day at a time, one breath at a time''
Source: Broward Politics
Sep 2, 2010 12:28 pm
He is one of 101 employees whose jobs will be gone soon. Joseph is a groundskeeper at Central Broward Regional Park. He's 30 years old. And he's scared. Broward County government eliminated about 160 jobs in the coming budget. Of those 101 were fill…
Chiles campaign confirms exit
Source: Political Insider
Sep 1, 2010 8:04 pm
Independent candidate for governor Lawton “Bud” Chiles will drop out of the race for governor tomorrow at a press conference in Tallahassee, his campaign confirmed within the hour. Yesterday sources close to the campaign said Chiles was p…
Late voters were better for Scott than many expected
Source: Political Insider
Sep 1, 2010 4:49 pm
There was an expectation towards the end of the Republican Primary for governor that Attorney General Bill McCollum had turned the tables late on Rick Scott. As the thinking went, Scott did well with absentee and early voters, while McCollum surged l…
Jack Latvala hits the airwaves
Source: Bay Buzz
Sep 1, 2010 3:57 pm
"The problem with Tallahassee politicians is that there are way too many talkers and not enough doers," says Republican Jack Latvala, who was in the Florida Senate until term limits forced him out in 2002. He also was majority leader....
Pinellas Sheriff Jim Coats slams raises for EMS with none for deputies
Source: Bay Buzz
Sep 1, 2010 3:50 pm
Pinellas County Sheriff Jim Coats, irked that EMS employees are receiving raises when deputies don't, riled the county offices with a missive Wednesday asking the County Commission to pony up salary increases for his deputies this month. From his let…
Hillsborough firefighters endorse Rose Ferlita for mayor
Source: Bay Buzz
Sep 1, 2010 3:46 pm
Hillsborough County firefighters this week endorsed county commissioner Rose Ferlita in her run for Tampa mayor. "We truly believe the timing for your vision of an engaged, collegial, and cooperative effort throughout the local region is at hand," wr…
Sunrise embraces Mike Ryan as new mayor, gears up for November elections
Source: Broward Politics
Sep 1, 2010 3:43 pm
By Susannah Bryan SUNRISE: Cameras flashed. The crowd roared its praise. And after a judge did the obligatory swearing in, Mike Ryan was sitting in the mayor's seat. "Tonight we begin a new journey together," Ryan told the overflow crowd gathered …
Ted Deutch, Ron Klein speak out against federal court ruling on stem cells
Source: Palm Beach Politics
Sep 1, 2010 3:41 pm
Updated 12:05 p.m. U.S. Reps. Ted Deutch and Ron Klein, both Boca Raton Democrats, are speaking out on what they call the "urgent need" to lift a federal court injunction blocking federally backed embryonic stem cell research. They will be joined a…