Category: Education
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Broward Sheriff Tony received $65,000 from opioid training firm, then urged state funding for its program
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony was paid $65,000 last year by a for-profit opioid training company led by a Boca Raton man who ran a telemarketing scam that bilked millions from people who were told they were donating to police, firefighter, veterans and cancer research charities. -
Fantasies of a Cuba invasion deferred: How Trump and Rubio lost the hearts of Miami’s war-crazed Cuban exiles
By Kirk C. NIelsen
FloridaBulldog.org
Disillusion with President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio has increasingly set in among Cuban exiles in South Florida, nine months after U.S. special forces invaded Caracas, seizing Venezuela’s autocratic president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores and killing 32 Cuban soldiers providing security for them. -
‘Rescue the River of Grass’ campaign calls on Florida to buy 100,000+ acres of Big Sugar’s land
By Kailey Aiken
FloridaBulldog.org
While billions of dollars have been spent restoring the Everglades, one critical piece remains unfinished. Friends of the Everglades, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the Everglades, is calling on the state to acquire additional land south of Lake Okeechobee to store and clean water before it flows through the Everglades. -
Broward Sheriff Tony hired his NSU doctoral advisor as reserve deputy days after 2024 graduation
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Days after Broward Sheriff “Dr.” Gregory Tony’s commencement ceremony at Nova Southeastern University in June 2024 he hired the academic chairman of the NSU committee that judged his doctoral dissertation as a BSO reserve deputy sheriff. -
Broward Sheriff Tony broke state ethics law by using confidential police data to obtain PhD, his thesis shows
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony is proud of getting his doctorate in criminal justice – and vain enough to spend taxpayer’s funds to add “Dr.” and “PhD” next to his name everywhere he can think of. -
Miami-Dade Mayor Levine Cava’s PAC got $100K from Li’l Abner developer, she helped him secure $9 million in affordable housing funding
By Dan Christensen and Cassidy Winegarden
FloridaBulldog.org
A political action committee that fundraises for Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava took $100,000 from companies run by the controversial developer of Sweetwater’s now empty Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park. Her PAC accepted the money as she helped the developer obtain $9 million in government funding for his affordable housing project Abner III during her 2024 bid for re-election.
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