Stet News🚨 “I was heading to my gardening job with five workmates when two ICE cars pulled us over. They asked to see my license and everyone’s IDs. They reviewed my record and told me I would be detained. I told them I had gone through court and done everything necessary to be here on a working permit so I didn’t understand why they were arresting me. But it’s hard to speak to them when they’re being so aggressive.” So begins one of five tales on the impact of the federal crackdown on undocumented immigrants in Lake Worth Beach. (The Guardian)
✍🏼 Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the state’s $117 billion 2025-2026 budget yesterday. He vetoed $567 million in projects. The veto list is here.
❓ The mystery buyer who is assembling $250 million in property in the middle of Palm Beach. (New York Post)
🐕 Developers Terra and the Frisbie Group paid $21 million for about one-third of Palm Beach Kennel Club land on Congress Avenue, north of Palm Beach International Airport. It is the first phase of a plan to build a residential and retail development on the 42-acre property. (South Florida Business Journal $$$)
🧑🏻🎓 Tracy Caruso was appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday to the Palm Beach State College Board of Trustees. Caruso is married to state Rep. Mike Caruso (R-WPB), who is in the mix for a DeSantis appointment to county clerk or another office. Tracy Caruso is running for her term-limited husband’s state House seat. She joins former County Commissioner Michael Barnett as recent gubernatorial appointees to the state college board. (Governor’s office release)
🏙️ Trying to make sense of the state’s new condo law. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel $$$)
🙃 We Do Not Care Club. Melani Sanders, a 45-year-old mother of three and social media influencer in West Palm Beach, has gained a huge following for celebrating women of a certain age who have stopped trying to please everyone. (The New York Times gift link)
🤖 “Top of Mind Florida,” a podcast by former WPTV anchor Michael Williams and former Palm Beach Post political writer Brian Crowley, looks today at the promises, dangers and disruptions of artificial intelligence. Their guest is Alan Crowetz, president and CEO of Infostream.cc. (YouTube)
