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A lot can happen in 26 seconds. That’s how long Fort Lauderdale Commissioner Steve Glassman had left his seat on the dais during a controversial Jan. 9 meeting. In that short time, Glassman dropped an F-bomb backstage at The Parker, triggering a complaint from Commissioner Warren Sturman’s chief of staff. Her complaint, in turn, led to an outside investigation given a green light by Sturman ...

When politicians take sides in a controversy, they offend one side or the other. It goes with the job. Only rarely does a politician pull off the rare feat of offending both sides on an issue. It happened in Fort Lauderdale this week and it won’t soon be forgotten with an acrimonious city election on the horizon. Slowly but surely, Commissioner Warren Sturman has lost faith in City Manager ...

It’s not every day F-bombs get dropped on the dais. But they were flying during Tuesday’s Fort Lauderdale meeting at The Parker after three commissioners denied the city manager the same 3% raise they’d given the city auditor and city clerk. The tense exchange lasted less than three minutes, ending about 10 minutes before midnight. But it lays bare the simmering tensions between commissioners ...

FORT LAUDERDALE — This is no plain-Jane, square-box, gray-faced garage at the beach. No sir, Fort Lauderdale’s Las Olas Garage has that “wow” factor others don’t: Decorative pulsating lights that can simulate everything from ocean waves to holiday fireworks. But the lights that give the glitzy garage its landmark status have gone dark. And Fort Lauderdale leaders are being called on to decide ...

Critics of the Jubilee Center say the homeless patrons it attracts are fouling the neighborhood with trash and human waste. Supporters worry more people will go hungry when it closes.