Stet News
🚪 Former Fire Chief and Assistant County Administrator Reggie Duren is out and two new hires, Tracy Ellison and Tomer Nadler, are in, as the upper echelons of Palm Beach County government are reorganized by new County Administrator Joe Abruzzo. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)
✂️ How the state may have broken state laws while helping pay for tax cuts when it chopped $27 million a year in spending to run the state-owned rails in South Florida, jeopardizing the future of the Tri-Rail commuter line. (Seeking Rents)
🗣️ Raising the issue of civil discourse in troubling times, Lake Worth Beach City Commissioner Anthony Segrich took Commissioner Chris McVoy to task Friday for refusing to apologize to his colleagues for the “pay to play” comment he made at a commission meeting last month. (Lake Worth Beach Independent)
🍗 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen is coming to Northlake Boulevard. But it won’t have a drive-thru window. The Palm Beach Gardens City Council approved rezoning Sept. 4 for the fried chicken fast-food chain to open in Gardens Towne Square, a Publix-anchored center west of Interstate 95 and south of Northlake. It joins Subway, Pizza Hut, Carvel and Nothing Bundt Cakes. (Palm Beach Gardens City Council video, Resolution 63)
💰 Billionaire cable magnate John Malone sold his Wellington home for $10 million to a company led by Charlie Jacobs, co-CEO of Buffalo-based Delaware North food service and hospitality company and chief executive of the Boston Bruins hockey team. (South Florida Business Journal $$$)
Saudi Arabian intelligence officials pushed the 9/11 Commission’s top staff to exonerate a key Saudi suspect, Omar al Bayoumi, who the FBI later concluded was a Saudi spy who provided significant support to the first two al Qaeda hijackers to enter the United States. (Florida Bulldog)
🧳 About one-third of Florida college professors surveyed have applied for a job outside of Florida since 2023, an American Association of University Professors survey found. (Florida Phoenix)
Florida Atlantic University put a tenured faculty member on leave while it investigates comments she shared on social media after the assassination of commentator Charlie Kirk. (Sun Sentinel $$$)
⚖️ The School Board of Miami-Dade County is suing South Florida Public Media Group, which manages WLRN public radio, over its proposed acquisition of an FM station in Palm Beach County. Stet is a news partner with WLRN. (Current)
🎧 “Top of Mind Florida,” the podcast by Michael Williams and Brian Crowley, talks music with saxophonist Patrick Lamb, who toured with legends Smokey Robinson, Gino Vannelli and Diane Schuur. (Listen here; watch after 4 pm Wednesday)
