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Pick your poison: DMV fraud or ACORN?
Take Our Poll As scams go, the Delray Beach driver license fraud was about as sloppy and unsophisticated as the ACORN employees caught on tape behaving badly. But, unlike the alleged wrongdoing by...
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‘Tis the season …
Take Our Poll Despite Delray Beach City Commissioner Adam Frankel’s proclamation that “We saved Hanukkah!” the eight day Jewish festival never was in any danger. It would have gone on whether or not...
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Water less, but pay more?
Not surprisingly, the South Florida Water Management District has imposed mandatory water restrictions. The dry rainy season of 2010 was followed by the drier-than-normal winter of 2010-2011....
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Should the feds step in to regulate sober homes?
Delray Beach lost a fight to keep the Caron Foundation from opening a sober home in a beachfront mansion Florida lawmakers planning to push legislation to regulate sober homes would do better lobbying...
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Should indicted ex-Delray commissioner keep seat on county health care board?
The Post’s Joe Capozzi reported Thursday that criminal charges against former Delray Beach City Commissioner Angeleta Gray could jeopardize her position on the Palm Beach County Health Care District...
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Should county commissioners allow more development in the Agricultural Reserve?
Ellen O’Brien, of Delray Beach, sits with a group wearing green t-shirts with slogans “Save the Veggies” and “Preserve the Ag Resserve” at a Palm Beach County Commission land use meeting last year....
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Are you voting in your local election today?
Today is election day for 16 municipalities in Palm Beach County. Will voters turn out at the polls? It’s election day! There are plenty of good races to motivate residents in Palm Beach County’s...
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Deadbeat cities need to pay up for county inspector general
A worker at Palm Beach International Airport removes portrait of Mary McCarty in 2009 after she announced her resignation and said she would plead guilty to a federal corruption charge. She was one of...
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Two thumbs up for Delray’s revised iPic Theaters headquarters
Proposed iPic for Delray Beach (handout) It used to be a sleepy little burg belittled as Dullray Beach. Now, after 20 years of smart planning and renewal, Delray Beach bustles with nightlife and...
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Delray’s elected leaders are right to reach for control of CRA
Blighted? Hardly. But downtown Delray Beach remains part of the Community Redevelopment Agency district. (Damon Higgins / The Palm Beach Post) There’s no doubting the achievements of the Delray Beach...
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Letter: Kudos to Delray PD for carrying antidote
Congratulations to the Delray Beach Police Department on being proactive, regarding the increasingly prevalent and dangerous heroin-overdose problem, by supplying kits of naloxone to their officers so...
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Letter: Delray boat residents seeking fix for fees
The historical marker for the Marina Historic District in Delray Beach. The All-America City Award, which Delray Beach has won twice, is given by the National Civic League annually to 10 communities in...
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Letter: Increased Delray Police presence might have saved Jordan Parsons
Delray’s Atlantic Avenue is south country’s prime strolling spot. (Damon Higgins / The Palm Beach Post) That was an interesting Point of View: “Bolster police presence to keep Delray Beach fun for all”...
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Are heroin overdoses spreading faster than Zika?
Heroin overdoses appear to be growing unabated in Palm Beach County. (Photo by Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office) You should know by now that there is a disease spreading rapidly throughout Palm Beach...
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Post endorsements: In Delray Beach, Chard and Johnson
The city commission could be in for big changes, with two seats up for election on Tuesday. It’s now a divided council, with two of the members, Shelley Petrolia and Mitch Katz, forming a reliable...
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Goodman: Mayors of West Palm, Delray Beach defy Trump on climate change. Good...
Lake Trail lives up to its name at Seaspray Avenue as flooding aggravated by the supermoon caused wet walking in Palm Beach Tuesday, November 15, 2016. (Lannis Waters / Daily News) UPDATE – JUNE 5,...
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Goodman: Delray Beach: All American City and ‘relapse capital’ all at the...
Suzanne Spencer, former executive director of the Delray Beach Drug Taskforce, and Delray Beach Police Chief Jeffrey Goldman speak at a 2015 press conference about heroin overdoses and deaths in the...
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Goodman: Hurricane Irma: For us, catastrophe averted. But still not much fun.
Downed trees at the beach at Delray Beach after Hurricane Irma, Sept. 11, 2017 (Palm Beach Post / Howard Goodman) Ah, the sound of chainsaws in the morning. Sure beats the whistle of high-speed winds...
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Christie: Are we painting PBC sober homes with too broad a brush?
Matthew Anderson talks with his attorney during a court hearing in May. Anderson, owner of two Palm Beach County sober homes where police responded to 28 calls last year — including six overdoses — was...
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Christie: Post readers react to Sinclair, WPEC ‘fake news’ editorial
If you’d never heard of Sinclair Broadcast Group — the nation’s largest owner of local television stations — before this week, don’t fret about it. And don’t worry if you didn’t know that they owned...
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