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Florida’s Supreme Court ruled Monday that the state’s constitution does not protect abortion rights, allowing one of the country’s strictest and most far-reaching abortion bans to take effect May 1.
- In a separate decision, the court also ruled that an amendment to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution can go on the November ballot for a vote that could undo the ban in a matter of months. (Washington Post – gift link)
- Also cleared for the November ballot: recreational marijuana.
We shared a tribute to Agnes Ash, the longtime publisher of the Palm Beach Daily News, by her longtime friend, retired Tallahassee attorney Florence Snyder. Agnes died March 22 in Palm Beach at the age of 99. Read Florence’s remembrances here.
⛪️ Local architect Rick Gonzalez warns that Related Cos. is planning to dismantle history by removing key portions of the 1926 church at the center of The Square, Related’s downtown West Palm Beach development formerly known as CityPlace. (The Palm Beach Post opinion)
🚪 While hundreds of thousands of new residents have flocked to Florida, as we reported last week, nearly 500,000 left in 2022, according to the most recent census data. (NBC News)
🐊 A seven-minute status report on the $25 billion state and federal project to fix the Everglades. It’s been called the largest restoration project in human history. (CBS News)
⚾️ Hank Aaron played here. And, 50 years ago on April 8, after a less-than-relaxing spring training in West Palm Beach, he went to the plate in Atlanta and socked his record-breaking 715th home run. (ByJoeCapozzi.com)
