🚨 A WLRN investigation unearths warning signs about a West Palm Beach police street crimes unit called GHOST and three officers involved in a 2024 chase into Boynton Beach that killed a pregnant woman and her mother. The city has dismantled GHOST. (WLRN)

☀️ About 40 proposals to create exemptions from public records have been introduced in the Florida Legislature. Measures would remove access to information about public officials and their families as well as victims of domestic or dating violence, private investigators, officers involved in use-of-force incidents and people who buy ammunition. Bills to make records more accessible would for the first time apply a deadline for how quickly agencies must respond to record requests. (Florida Trident)

🔥 Lake Worth Beach’s $48,500 public information campaign to educate voters about the five proposed city charter changes on the March 10 ballot is coming under fire from residents who say it’s misleading and violates state election law. (Lake Worth Beach Independent)

🌇 The day after Vanderbilt recommitted to West Palm Beach, the Nashville-based university announced it is opening a campus in 2027 in San Francisco. (Forbes)

✡️ Temple Israel, Palm Beach County’s oldest Jewish organization, has conducted its last service at its North Flagler Drive sanctuary. Related Ross plans a luxury condominium project on the property. The congregation will move to a former charter school campus along Lake Mangonia on Australian Avenue. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)

👩‍🌾 The long-standing sign outside the Farmer Girl Restaurant on Dixie Highway in Lake Worth Beach is gone after the city declared it a code violation. Pole signs, like the one at Farmer Girl, don’t meet city code, but the cost of a new sign that does is beyond the restaurant’s reach.(Lake Worth Beach Independent)

🤝 An affiliate of LRP Media Group bought an office/retail building in Palm Beach Gardens’ PGA Station across from Loehmann’s Plaza for $15.5 million. Recent tenants include New Radiance Cosmetic Centers, Score At the Top Learning Center and Outside the Box Furniture. (South Florida Business Journal $$$)

🧑‍🎨 Some of Pablo Picasso’s late-career work is on display at the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens in West Palm Beach until March 15. (Palm Beach Illustrated)

⚔️ ICYMI: The last major battle of Second Seminole Indian War will be staged Saturday at Loxahatchee River Battlefield Park in Jupiter. The battle was fought on the very same land on Jan. 24, 1838. Meet the time travelers obsessed with authenticity. (Stet News)

🏥 Two announcements last week from Jupiter Medical Center. The center and the Hospital for Special Surgery have forged an alliance to allow HSS to perform inpatient surgeries at Jupiter. The medical center also announced a $35 million gift from Tim and Jayne Donahue, who will be honored with their name on Jupiter’s new $135 million hospital tower. Tim Donahue is the former CEO of Nextel Communications. (The Palm Beach Post $$$, South Florida Hospital News)

🎙️ “Top of Mind Florida,” the podcast by Michael Williams and Brian Crowley, focuses on proposals to reduce property taxes in Florida with state Rep. Toby Overdorf, who chaired the House Select Committee on Property Taxes. (Listen now; watch.)