Check this out, guys. Michael LaForgia at the Palm Beach Post is having some fun -- and working hard, apparently -- with his new crime blog.
This story never appeared in print: BOYNTON BEACH - Money's tight in this city's poorer quarters.
On Southwest First Street, near the heart of town, there's a lemon-colored condo complex. Some of the condos are empty; their darkened windows have no curtains. From the road they stand out like rows of broken teeth.
Parts of this neighborhood are slumping with the economy. You can see it in the litter and rusting cars, hear it at night in the cries of the city cop sirens.
By this time last year, police had sped by this condo complex 37 times,…
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