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• Dan Lewis: Demo Boss Ceasar Needs To Retire

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  BY DAN LEWIS

  Mitch Ceasar needs to retire, with our thanks.

  Cynthia Busch, an accomplished grass-roots organizer and Democratic Area Leader is challenging Ceasar on December 9th for the position of Chair.  She should win, as much for her campaign skills as for her ability to bring people together.

  Although it is [...]

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• Rpt: Commissioner On Facebook During Her Trial

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

  You would think that suspended Tamarac Commissioner Patte Atkins Grad would be paying attention to her own trial for corruption.

  Nooooo, according to blogger Chaz Stevens.

  Stevens says that while Atkins-Grad was sitting at the defendant’s table, she was on Facebook.  The pol was complaining about her former opponent and [...]

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• Demos Fight Over Future Of The Party

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  A political party sole goal is to win elections.

  By this measure – the only one that counts — the Broward Democratic Party has been astonishingly successful in the past 20 years.

  Despite of tens of thousands of its most reliable condominium voters, Democrats have continued to win elections.  Despite [...]

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• Should We Elect The School Superintendent?

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

  Some have suggested we have an elected school superintendent in Broward.

  One plus: An elected superintendent would be more responsive to the public.

  I guarantee administrators would be more diligent about answering parents calls is their boss The Superintendent faced the voters every four years.

  On the other hand, there is [...]

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• Free Speech Prevails At School Board…For Now

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  Free speech remains alive and well at the School Board…for now.

  An attempt to get an Internet blogger tossed off a School Board committee for his views failed last week.

  The hero of this story is School Board member Katie Leach, who reappointed web scribe Tom Lauder to the Diversity [...]

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• City Finds Way To Cut Cost Of Health Care

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  Sometimes government gets it right.

  Take Plantation.

  Four of the five commissioners are up for re-election in March. I’m betting you won’t hear a lot from challengers about a bona fide Plantation success story — the City Hall Health Clinic.

  The program has saved about $500,000 in health care costs since [...]

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• Demos Can’t Count Rick Scott Out Yet

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  After Barack Obama’s victory in Florida this month, the Democrats have turned their guns on Gov. Rick Scott.

  Wait a minute.

  Despie his low standing in the polls, shoving Scott aside won’t be easy.

  Two reasons quickly come to mind:

  Democrats have no candidate to unify behind. The turnout will be much less [...]
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• New School Board Member Learns Fast

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

   

  It didn’t take long for newly-minted School Board member Abby Freedman to discover the biggest impediment to improvement in our classrooms:

  The staff.

   

  Abby Freedman

  No, not the teachers. Freedman believes rightly so that they need more resources and sympathy.

  It’s the apparatchiks pushing paper without any accountability and the six-figure [...]

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• Fields: Kill Leaders To End War

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  BY SAM FIELDS

   

  The biggest scam world leaders perpetuate is that their lives are more valuable than ours.

  That ancient concept plays out especially loud and clear when leaders want to start war.

  Soldiers and civilians die in the millions without a mention in the newspaper.  But let some honcho or his family [...]

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• Battle For GOP Chair: Second Candidate Runs

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

  A second candidate for Broward Republican Party chair has jumped in the race within hours of the word that current Chair Robert DeNapoli is not running again.

  Former Plantation Commissioner Rico Petrocelli, who is the current executive director of the party, announced Monday afternoon he was running.

  Two days after [...]

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