Category: Plantation
-
Legislative ‘sprinkle’ adds extra half-million dollars to state senator’s nonprofit, quietly doubling state payout to Lauren’s Kids
By Francisco Alvarado FloridaBulldog.org In the waning days of the most recent Florida legislative session, it appeared the nonprofit agency founded and run by Plantation State Sen. Lauren Book would walk away with only half-a-million dollars in taxpayer funding after consecutive years of receiving seven-figure sums. Then came the April 30th meeting of the budget…
-
Bondi’s office ducks questions about Waste Management deal as Broward recycling contracts expire
in A1 Top Story, Attorney General, Broward Cities, Broward Courts, Coconut Creek, Coral Springs, Deerfield Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Government Contractors, Hillsboro Beach, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Lauderhill, Margate, Miramar, North Lauderdale, Oakland Park, Pembroke Park, Plantation, Sunrise, Tamarac, Waste disposal, West Park, Weston, Wilton ManorsBy Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Office is ducking questions about why she never alerted Broward cities and consumers about pricing and other protections secured for them in 2015 in exchange for not opposing Waste Management’s $525-million acquisition of Southern Waste Systems and Sun Recycling.
-
Republican Party recycled Waste Management contributions to Bondi before antitrust deal
in A1 Top Story, Attorney General, Broward Cities, Coconut Creek, Coral Springs, Deerfield Beach, Government Contractors, Hillsboro Beach, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Lauderhill, Margate, Miramar, North Lauderdale, Oakland Park, Pembroke Park, Plantation, Sunrise, Tamarac, Waste disposal, West Park, Wilton ManorsBy Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org In December 2015, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office cut a secret antitrust deal with Waste Management that allowed it to complete its big money acquisition of Southern Waste Systems and Sun Recycling, including Sun’s Broward recycling facilities. In the six years before, as Bondi campaigned for election and re-election, Waste…
-
Bondi’s office doesn’t want to answer questions about Waste Management antitrust probe
in A1 Top Story, Attorney General, Broward Cities, Coconut Creek, Coral Springs, Deerfield Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Hillsboro Beach, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Lauderhill, Margate, Miramar, North Lauderdale, Oakland Park, Pembroke Park, Plantation, Sunrise, Tamarac, Waste disposal, West Park, Wilton ManorsBy Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Florida’s top antitrust attorney is seeking to quash a Broward subpoena that seeks to force her to answer questions about the state’s review of Waste Management’s $525-million takeover of Sun Recycling.
-
As Broward recycling crisis boils, Bondi’s antitrust regulators kept a secret that could cost cities
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org State antitrust regulators who OK’d Waste Management’s $525-million buyout of the company that handles recycling for most Broward cities did so only after being assured that those cities would be allowed to renew their contracts this year on the same terms and conditions.
-
As Waste Management tightens grip in Broward, recycling becomes costlier, endangered
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Last month, Sunrise City Manager Richard Salamon fired off an ominous email to more than two dozen of his fellow municipal managers across Broward. The subject: solid waste disposal and single stream recycling. The urgent message: “most of us are facing the reality we don’t have anyone lined up to accept…