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Adham Hassoun, Broward terror figure held long after completing his sentence, deported to Africa
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Adham Amin Hassoun’s journey through the U.S. justice system began on a balmy June night 18 years ago when agents with South Florida’s Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested him at his Sunrise home for overstaying his student visa. It ended a month ago with his deportation to the tiny African nation of Rwanda. -
Reforms, including no-kill policy, remain elusive at Broward’s Animal Care and Adoption Center
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Mary sensed her chance to pull off a daring escape from the Broward County Animal Care and Adoption Center on Aug. 16. As a staffer walked the scruffy, black pooch to a van manned by a dog rescuer, Mary slipped out of her leash and bolted over a six-foot, chain-link fence, according to an email sent three days later by the facility’s interim director Alessandra Medri. -
Broward, Hollywood wrangle over 911 radio network ‘mess’
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward County blames a fight with the city of Hollywood for the county’s failure to upgrade a dangerously deficient 911 radio system for first responders. Hollywood residents who’ve worked tirelessly to save a environmentally sensitive park where the county wanted to install a radio tower disagree. They say the buck stops with the county. -
NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer’s hefty ‘consulting’ fees a focus of New York AG’s regulatory probe
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida National Rifle Association lobbyist Marion Hammer was identified Thursday in a New York Attorney General’s lawsuit as being the beneficiary of hundreds of thousands of dollars in NRA funds illegally diverted to her as part of an audacious self-dealing scheme led by NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre. -
Pretzel logic, NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer and the Florida Commission on Ethics
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Why did the Florida ethics commission vote to let NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer off without sending her case to the governor and cabinet for a possible public hearing, further investigation and, if necessary, an “appropriate penalty’’? The answer involves a kind of pretzel logic… -
Feds flout church-state separation with millions in pandemic aid
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is subsidizing religious institutions in South Florida and elsewhere–despite the rule about separating church and state in a democracy.
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