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• Fields: Israel’s End Draws Nigh

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  BY SAM FIELDS

   

  If the 138 to 9 UN vote for Palestinian admission does not convince the Israeli population that they are on a Rightwing road to self-destruction, I wonder if anything will.

  Sadly, the upcoming January elections will make it clear they didn’t.  Probably nothing will until it is too late.

  There [...]

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• County Must Lead On 911

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  BY MIKE RYAN

   

   

  We are closer than ever to implementing the most significant improvement to public safety in decades – consolidation of our E911 call-handling and dispatch countywide.

  Refresher — Why You MUST care?

  A 911 call for help, whether from a child’s bedroom or a kitchen, is far more likely to be [...]

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• Blogger Forces City To Celebrate Seinfeld’s “Festivus”

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  A Festivus pole made of beer cans is on Federal Highway next to religious symbols

  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  Blogger Chaz Stevens has done it again.

  After complaining about religious holiday symbols being allowed on city property, the atheist blogger was permitted to erect a pole constructed out of beer cans at the [...]

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• Exclusive Poll: Rodstrom Winning Easily

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  Charlotte Rodstrom has a two-to-one lead in the January special election to fill her former southeast Fort Lauderdale seat, according to a just completed survey obtained exclusively by Browardbeat.com.

  When asked who they would vote for in the upcoming election, 401 likely voters picked:

  Charlotte Rodstrom — 45.39 percent, Dean Trantalis –  [...]
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• Commissioner’s Pathetic Thinly-Veiled Racism

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  At the very least, the voters of Cooper City should be ashamed.

  After all, they elected John Sims.

  John Sims

  Sims is responsible for the following distasteful and disrespectful shot at our president. It is dripping with thinly-veiled anti-black and anti-Hispanic racism.

  He posted it on Facebook and it was slipped [...]

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• Update: Scott Israel’s Political Payoffs

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  Reward and punishment is the glue that holds politics together.

  Scott Israel has apparently learned that lesson well…at least, the reward side.

  He is rewarding some of his key campaign supporters with jobs.  And he is considering handing jobs to other supporters, according to several sources.

  The first, already made public, [...]

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• State Party: Ceasar Didn’t Steal Last Election

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  One of the narratives surrounding Mitch Ceasar is that he stole his 2008 election as Democratic chair.

  Its been repeated so many times during the current campaign for Democratic chair, many believe it.

  Again, I couldn’t care less who Democrats elect their leader on December 9.

  But I was interested in [...]

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• School System Shocker! Construction Chief Fired

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  In a move designed to shake up the status quo in the Broward school system, Superintendent Robert Runcie  fired his construction chief Friday for failing to institute changes recommended by a critical Grand Jury.

  Runcie charged  construction and facilities boss Thomas Lindner with “inefficiency (incompetence), insubordination and/or willful neglect [...]

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