A public utility in northwest Broward County violated state law while doling out nearly $70 million in public contracts, according to a preliminary report issued by the Florida Auditor General. The North Springs Improvement District (NSID), which provides 40,000...
Collier County Commissioner Bill McDaniel has apparently been conducting a lot of county business on his personal email account – and now taxpayers will be footing the bill to defend him in a lawsuit filed by a local golf course over it. The commission voted Tuesday...
On paper, Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno and alleged serial swindler Malek Khalil line up as natural adversaries, not friends. Marceno is a popular lawman who grandstands over drug offenders and other defendants sent to the Lee County Jail, or “Marceno’s Motel,”...
When Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno needs to unwind, he likes to gamble – and his financial disclosure forms indicate it’s been an extremely lucrative vice for him. When Marceno filed his 2022 financial disclosure forms with the state last month, he listed...
When a pregnant woman walks into the state-subsidized Pregnancy Help and Information Center (PHI) in Tallahassee for help, she’ll likely get a dose of Christian preaching with her ultrasound. That’s because PHI doubles as a Christian ministry. Its CEO, Patti Tidwell,...
An investigation by the Florida Elections Commission found that Collier County Commissioner Chris Hall violated the state’s election code during his campaign last year. Hall’s campaign ads falsely implied he was the incumbent in the District 2 race rather than a...
