Month: June 2021
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Wanna volunteer at Broward’s animal shelter? Get ready to sign a CIA-like secrecy agreement
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Volunteers at Broward’s troubled Animal Care and Adoption Division (ACAD) are required to sign a county-approved agreement that seeks to muzzle them from posting “any criticism or disparaging comments” about the agency or its leaders on social media. -
Hired amid shelter crisis, Broward’s new director of animal care off to a rocky start with activists
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Six months into her tenure as director of Broward County Animal Care and Adoption, Emily Wood is in a vicious dog fight with animal activists and municipal elected officials who accuse her of doing a horrendous job of reforming the embattled agency. -
Miami judge warns big banks to stop playing cruel foreclosure games with people’s homes
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Beatrice Butchko is warning national banking giants and their counsel they’ll pay a hefty price if they commit fraud or violate due process or ethics rules to drive mortgage debtors out of their homes. -
Device makers have funneled billions to orthopedic surgeons who use their products
By Fred Schulte
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Judge grants Cruz defense team right to film at crime scene as prosecutor Satz’s death penalty record becomes an issue
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Over prosecutors’ objections, Nikolas Cruz’s defense got the go-ahead Friday for a professional production company to film the “preserved” crime scene at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland where Cruz admits he shot and killed 17 students and faculty and wounded 17 others more than three years ago. -
Pinecrest to use COVID relief millions to connect hundreds of properties to Miami-Dade water system
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Village of Pinecrest officials are ramming through an $11.4-million proposal that would connect roughly 700 properties that currently use water wells to the Miami-Dade water system. To pay for most of the project, the village council recently authorized using $7.5 million in COVID-19 relief funds from the federal government. Affected homeowners would pay the balance…
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