Tag: Sun-Sentinel
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As 2020 threatens to be fateful for journalism, a South Florida newspaper folds
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The collapse of local news came to North Broward and South Palm Beach last week with the shuttering of the Observer, a weekly newspaper based in Deerfield Beach since 1962. -
Newspaper sales in Florida are eroding faster than the national average
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
’Tis the season…for newspapers to file their annual forms with the U.S. Postal Service disclosing how many copies they sold over the last 12 months. And once again, the numbers submitted by Florida newspapers are grim. -
Broward Health halts public meeting on alleged interference with FBI probe
By Buddy Nevins and Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A public meeting called to discuss whether the North Broward Hospital District’s top lawyer Lynn Barrett deliberately obstructed an FBI investigation was shut down yesterday on her advice. -
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Broward Health commissioner upgrades unpaid post to well-paid lobbyist for hospital district
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
When Clarence V. McKee quit his commissioner’s seat on the governing board of Broward Health in January, records show he urged his colleagues to keep an eye on consulting contracts doled out by the tax supported public health care system. But less than a month later and without any public discussion by his former colleagues, McKee upgraded his unpaid position to a lobbying contract worth $65,000.
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