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🇺🇸 Today is election day in North Palm Beach and for residents of state House District 87, which spans the coast from Hypoluxo to Jupiter. (Stet News on North Palm Beach candidates and District 87 candidates)

🤑 In South Florida, 53 billionaires held a combined net worth of $657 billion, up 13% from last year, figures in the 2026 Forbes World’s Billionaires List reveal. Forbes reported a record-breaking 3,428 billionaires worldwide — an increase of 400 from last year. (South Florida Business Journal $$$)

🏳️‍🌈 Lake Worth Beach officials are concerned that new state anti-LGBTQ legislation could jeopardize future Palm Beach Pride festivals, an event expected to draw 30,000 people to the city this weekend. “As I ride in the parade every year and celebrate our diversity, I could be removed from office,” Mayor Betty Resch said. (Lake Worth Beach Independent)

🗳️ Boca Raton lawyer Peter Ticktin, a classmate 65 years ago with Donald Trump at the New York Military Academy, is trying to persuade the president to issue an executive order that would allow the president to seize control of this fall’s midterm balloting. (Vanity Fair $$$)

✏️ Lincoln Elementary School will close at the end of this school year and be renovated to reopen in 2028 as the new home of Inlet Grove High, the Palm Beach County School Board decided March 11. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)

⛵ A rundown of the six largest superyachts at the Palm Beach International Boat Show, which opens Wednesday with more than $1 billion in inventory. (Forbes)

  • No. 1:Rocinante,a 257-foot Lurssen that can accommodate up to 14 guests in seven cabins. 

🖼️ The Norton Museum of Art reports that its “Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time” exhibition is one of the most heavily attended in several years. The museum will be open until 8 pm on the exhibition’s last day, Sunday, March 29.

  • Why to go: The exhibition is the largest collection of privately held Dutch 17th-century paintings ever organized in the United States with over a dozen Rembrandts.

🟧 Lawrence “Larry” Herbert, the Palm Beach resident who invented the Pantone Matching System for colors, is the subject of a documentary, “The King of Color,” now playing at CMX Cinemas Downtown at the Gardens. (Palm Beach Daily News $$$, New York Times review – gift link)

🎙️ “Top of Mind Florida,” the podcast by Michael Williams and Brian Crowley, hosts Craig McInnis, artist and manager of The Peach Art Collective in West Palm Beach. They discuss the effect of AI in the art world. (Listen now; watch after 4 pm today)hael Williams and Brian Crowley discuss the recently completed Florida legislative session, going over what was — and wasn’t — accomplished. Plus, the future of Gov. Ron DeSantis. (Listen nowwatch here starting at 4 pm today)