Stet NewsBrightline trains have killed 182 people since 2018, significantly more than publicly known, a yearlong investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN has found. The majority of the fatalities were accidents or undetermined, 75 were ruled suicide. (WLRN story and podcast)
💰 The bill for taxpayers to cover the overtime cost of deputies accompanying County Commissioner Sara Baxter to public and private meetings is more than $20,000 and includes an event at Mar-a-Lago. No other commissioners have asked for such protection and the commission has not discussed how it would pay the sheriff’s bill. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)
🛞 Driverless shuttles in downtown West Palm Beach made the national news Sunday. (NBC)
📡 Congress clawed back $1 billion previously approved to be spent over two years by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides money to National Public Radio and PBS. That could cost local NPR station WLRN $1.4 million this year on top of a $460,000 loss in state money vetoed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. (Axios Miami)
🚪 The food hall at Grandview Public Market will close at the end of July. (CBS Channel 12)
Frances Bourque, the founder of Old School Square and the woman considered the mother of the arts in Delray Beach and beyond, died Tuesday at the age of 84. (Boca Magazine)
🎙️ “Top of Mind Florida,” the podcast with Michael Williams and Brian Crowley, welcomes “That Pink Science Teacher.” Angela Santalo, who teaches middle school in Miami, has hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok and Instagram. (Listen here. Watch here.)
