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• Attorney: Rodstrom can cut aide's salary, not his benefits

  UPDATE: Fort Lauderdale City Attorney Harry Stewart said Friday that Commissioner Charlotte Rodstrom has no authority to change a benefit given to a city employee -- even if the employee is her own aide.

  She can, however, reduce aide Scott Wyman's salary "if a mistake was made in setting the'" [...]

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• Chan Lowe's take on the school bus debacle

  Sun Sentinel editorial cartoonist Chan Lowe takes on the Broward school bus mess on his blog.

  See it here.

  
  
  

  
  

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• Sheriff's campaign consultant arrested

  In case you missed it, here's my story about Sheriff Al Lamberti's campaign consultant, William E. Lewis, being arrested.

  This is the statement that Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti put out:

  “Bill Lewis did not volunteer for the Broward Sheriff’s Office but his company did help with my campaign social media [...]

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• Broward Democrats hitting the road

  Broward Democrats hitting the road

  South Florida, the state’s Democratic stronghold, is sendingn a boatload of delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
  Busloads might be more accurate.

  One group of delegates from Florida’s East Coast is traveling by bus, allowing about 40 Dems to get to [...]

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• Rodstrom cuts aide's retirement benefit, says she won't wait for commission to act

  While Fort Lauderdale commissioners debate what to do about hefty retirement contributions being given to 24 non-pensioned employees, Commissioner Charlotte Rodstrom said Thursday her aide will no longer be one of them.

  Rodstrom directed the city’s human resources director to reduce the contribution aide Scott Wyman receives from 27.71 percent [...]

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• Broward plans for sea level rise

  
  Actual Kristin Jacobs earring

  Broward County is about to officially embrace a new goal: adapting to Climate Change. This will take all sorts of forms in the coming years. Commissioners Tuesday set a hearing date of Sept. 11 to add an entire set of climate change [...]

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• Ticket to see James Taylor, help Obama, no mere song

  Singer-songwriter James Taylor will appear in Parkland Sept. 14 for an evening of “chords and conversation.”

  Tickets aren’t a song. It’s $2,500 per person to attend the concert performance by Taylor.

  For $10,000, an attendee gets the concert plus dinner and conversation with Taylor.

  The event is at the Parkland [...]

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• Fort Lauderdale commission race gets fourth candidate

  Add city activist Robert Walsh to the list of candidates who want to take over for District 2 Commissioner Charlotte Rodstrom when her resignation takes effect in November.

  Rodstrom, former Commissioner Dean Trantalis and Lake Ridge Homeowner Association President Chuck Black have already announced their plans to run. On Tuesday, [...]

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• Sharon Day's speech to Republican convention set for Tuesday afternoon

  Sharon Day of Fort Lauderdale, co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, delivers her postponed speech to the Republican National Convention on Tuesday.

  She's scheduled for 2:45.

  Watch here.

  And here's more about Day's brand of Republicanism.

  
  
  

  
  

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• Sheriff's $1.6 million lair revisited ... VIDEO

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

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