Category: Broward Cities
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Broward Sheriff Tony to take budget fight to Tallahassee, but BSO’s budget numbers often don’t add up
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward Sheriff Dr. Gregory Tony wants the State of Florida to force Broward County to give him a hefty budget increase. He wants it so badly that on Tuesday he and a team of his top brass will be in Tallahassee to appeal the county’s partial denial of his unprecedented billion-dollar-plus proposal. -
Terror, indifference and division limit ICE resistance in South Florida, insiders say
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Protesters in Minneapolis, Los Angeles and many other U.S. cities have flooded streets, emptied shops and raised awareness that most immigrants are hard workers and good neighbors. -
SaferWatch CEO’s federal bribery arrest in N.Y. has Florida sheriffs, chiefs and school officials pressing panic button
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Federal bribery charges in New York against the owner and CEO of SaferWatch, whose panic button and emergency mass alert system is popular with police and other public officials, are reverberating across Florida, but most urgently in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach. -
Gone in 41 seconds: Tough gift restrictions on Broward’s elected officials
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Forty-one seconds. That’s all it took for the Broward County Commission to gleefully enact an ordinance three weeks ago disposing of tough restrictions on the acceptance of gifts by elected officials in the county’s ethics code. -
Controversial Hollywood beach tower may face another hurdle: litigation
By Noreen Marcus
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Resurrected lawsuit puts FPL’s past controversies back in the spotlight
By Nate Monroe
The Tributary
An investor lawsuit accusing Florida Power & Light’s parent company, NextEra, and several current and former executives of securities fraud can move forward, a panel of federal appeals judges ruled this week in a remarkable resurrection of the case. The suit, which has two Florida pension funds as the lead plaintiffs, argues that the company made misleading statements as Florida newspapers several years ago uncovered evidence of a wide range of misdeeds, including involvement in efforts to warp Florida elections through the use of “ghost” candidates, use of dirty tricks to acquire Jacksonville’s city-owned electric utility, surveillance of a journalist and attempts to control media coverage.
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