Broward County School Board Elects Chair and Vice Chair, and Three Newly Elected and Two Re-Elected School Board Members are Sworn In

Tuesday, November 22, 2022On Tuesday, November 22, 2022, The School Board of Broward County, Florida unanimously elected Lori Alhadeff, District 4, as Chair, and Debra Hixon, Countywide At-Large, Seat 9, as Vice Chair. ... Read More

Liberty U. Dean Claims He Was Fired for Whistleblowing

John Markley says he raised concerns about fraudulent management, enrollment rate misrepresentation, and “compensation schemes.” A former dean at Liberty University has sued the university, alleging he was fired in retaliation for his whistleblower reports to Liberty leadership and law enforcement. The lawsuit, filed in the Lynchburg Circuit Court last Thursday, claims that over the past four years John Markley made “repeated good faith reports of disturbing violations” of... Read More

Police across Florida must have plan in place to deal with active shooters, safety panel says. And it intends to ask for a mandate

A safety commission wants to make sure that if there’s ever another mass shooting in Florida, the police will know what to do. So the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Safety Commission will ask Florida’s Legislature to require police departments statewide to have those guidelines in place. Advertisement “There are more school districts and more police agencies in this nation that aren’t prepared than are prepared,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, and a member of the... Read More

DeSantis appointee ousted as Broward School Board chair; Parkland parent replaces him

The Broward School Board’s political allegiances changed Tuesday morning when the board elected incumbent Lori Alhadeff as board chair, replacing Torey Alston, a Gov. Ron DeSantis appointee who was elected … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Lawsuit: Vineyard Anaheim Exit Was About Money, Not Holy Spirit

Carol Wimber-Wong and eight former members accuse Dwelling Place pastors of $62 million fraud. The widow of a legendary Vineyard leader is suing the pastors of a Southern California church for fraud and the alleged misappropriation of $62 million. Vineyard Anaheim, the “mother church” of the Vineyard movement since it was planted by John Wimber in 1977, left the charismatic denomination without much explanation in March. The current senior pastor, Alan Scott, told the church... Read More

How wild was this city near Miami? Check out the ‘sin strip’ and the steakhouse mob hit

The islands between Miami and Miami Beach along the 79th Street Causeway might be going through a major transformation soon. Developers want to build new hotels, condos and restaurants. For … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Former Miami city manager testifies the city was ‘targeting’ certain Little Havana businesses

In an explosive newly released court document, a former City of Miami manager testified under oath that he witnessed first-hand that City of Miami commissioner Joe Carollo was “targeting” code … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Newly elected member Rod Velez won’t get sworn in to Broward School Board today

Rod Velez, who was elected Nov. 8 to a south county Broward School Board seat, won’t be sworn in today, a school district spokesman said. Velez has been dogged by questions about his eligibility due to a felony conviction. His voting rights were restored in 2020, but that didn’t automatically guarantee other rights, including holding public office and serving on a jury, according to rules prepared by the Board of Clemency in March 2021. Advertisement If he took an oath, saying he is... Read More

Thanks Be to God for Scripted Gratitude

The words I say every Sunday guide me toward gratefulness. I grew up doing sword drills. The Sunday school teacher or youth group leader would yell out a passage, chapter and verse, and we would scramble to find it first. It was important to the churches I grew up in and the evangelical subculture I was raised in that we were “Bible people.” Years later, when I began a doctoral program in political theology, I joined a church in a different tradition than the one I’d... Read More