By Dan Christensen, BrowardBulldog.org
The first shot was fired last week at Oakland Park City Hall in a brewing rebellion among Broward cities over the high cost of garbage disposal.
County officials have offered a proposal they say will save the cities nearly $49 million a year over what they now pay to get rid of their [...]
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Broward’s $1.5 billion no-bid trash deal under fire by cities
Broward-based boss of Jamaica’s brutal Shower Posse dies; politically connected drug gang lives on
By Dan Christensen, BrowardBulldog.org
Vivian Blake’s peaceful death in a Kingston, Jamaica hospital bed March 21 is a grim contrast to his life steeped in violence – much of it in South Florida.
Blake, formerly of Miramar, was a founder of the “Shower Posse,” a politically connected drug gang that got its name from the bullets it [...]
Year long probe delays retrial in case of ‘94 triple murder caught on tape
By Dan Christensen, BrowardBulldog.org
Broward prosecutors said this week that they have cleared a Florida convict of involvement in one of the county’s most notorious crimes – the 1994 video-taped murders of a Miramar club owner and two models.
For nearly a year, the quiet investigation of inmate William Ortiz had caused the postponement of the Supreme [...]