Jack Osterholt News Today

As we look back on a stressful year, a bittersweet sendoff to some of those who died in 2021.

Surfside building department was under fire before tower collapsed, records show Aaron Leibowitz and Sarah Blaskey, Miami Herald © Joe Raedle/Getty Images North America/TNS A portion of the 12- story condo tower crumbled to the ground during a partial collapse of the building on June 24, 2021, in Surfside, Florida. MIAMI — In the years leading up to the collapse of a residential condo building in Surfside, the town’s Building Department was plagued by disorganization and ...

Osterholt ran Broward County’s government in the 1990s as county manager, presiding over a string of land acquisitions and construction projects, including deals that led to the creation of the county’s current performance hall, hockey arena and homeless shelter.