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BY SAM FIELDS
Guest Columnist
RELIGIOUS CHUTZPAH AND THE HYPOCRACY
My favorite part of the Governor Mark Stanford debacle is not necessarily recalling the self-righteous attacks that he made on serial adulterer Bill Clinton a decade ago.
Filed under: General News
Ana Gardiner
BY BUDDY NEVINS
Broward Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner asked to not be named a Hispanic Women of Distriction because to accept the honor might violate the Canons of Judicial Ethics.
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John “Jay” Hurley
BY BUDDY NEVINS
John Hurley was a Republican activist until he was appointed to the bench.
Now that he is a “non-partisan judge seeking re-election, there are Democrats and Republicans supporting him.
Filed under: General News
BY BUDDY NEVINS
It has happened again: The Broward County Commission signed a contract and gone back and upped it.
Mike Moskowitz
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BY BUDDY NEVINS
Frank Loconto’s Countyline show is the only long-form television interview show featuring Broward politicians.
Loconto always has great shows, but over the next three days he has some real winners.
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Sue Gunzburger
BY BUDDY NEVINS
South Broward voters need to remember this post next year when Sue Gunzburger is running for re-election:
She is behind the biggest proposed expansion of county government in two decades.
Is she giving former State Sen. Steve Geller, who is running against her, an issue?
Filed under: Guest Column
BY SAM FIELDS
Guest Columnist
In a victory for the Fourth Amendment protection against “unreasonable search and seizure, the U.S. Supreme Court, in an 8 to 1 ruling, decided that school official’s strip searching 13-year-old girl on a hunch was a bit too much.
The only dissenting vote was Justice Clarence Thomas. No surprise.
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BY BUDDY NEVINS
At first, the hearing for an electric rate hike was a Florida Power & Light love fest.
People praising a utility that was seeking a rate increase in a recession?
I felt like I was upside down. In Bizarro World. Or a hall of mirrors.
Here is what I heard:
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BY BUDDY NEVINS
There is no Broward government figure that has been around longer than Ed Marko.
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Joseph Gibbons
BY BUDDY NEVINS
State Rep. Joe Gibbons, the Hallandale Democrat who is on almost everyone’s short list for higher office, raised his profile by speaking out in Washington last week.
He asked Congress to prevent Florida from targeting cell phone users for special taxes.