Stet News🍽️ Palm Beach County leaders are directing people in need of a meal to the United Way’s online Food Finder Map and the 211 helpline. (WLRN)
🐊 Florida is supposed to police the state’s biggest sources of water pollution: agriculture and development. Instead, regulators and lawmakers have protected the major industries at nearly every turn. The approach has resulted in hundreds of waterways across Florida growing dirtier for decades — including the Caloosahatchee, where algae blooms have fueled fish kills, and the Indian River Lagoon, where scores of manatees starved to death as the ecosystem neared collapse. (Tampa Bay Times)
🏨 Related Ross pitched a 400-room Curio convention center hotel to Palm Beach County on the condition that the hotel pay no property taxes. To do this, Related Ross proposed giving the land to the county for $1 before leasing the property back and building a $290 million hotel there. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)
🐬 In the fifth reported mass stranding of spotted dolphins since 2000 in the southeast region, four spotted dolphins came ashore at Lake Worth Beach Oct. 29; two died and two were transported to SeaWorld Orlando for rehabilitation. (Lake Worth Beach Independent)
👮 Jupiter is planning new rules on park activities for the first time in 30 years. The town will regulate e-bike riding and launching and landing drones. Police officers can enforce limits on hang gliding, dumping and littering but little else. The Town Council will take its final vote on Nov. 6. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)
🎵 The National Battle of the Bands, a showcase of marching bands from historically Black colleges and universities, is coming to Palm Beach County in January. (WLRN)
🔥 The first Lake Worth Beach bonfire and night market of the winter season is Friday. (City of Lake Worth Beach)
🎙️ “Top of Mind Florida,” the podcast by Michael Williams and Brian Crowley, welcomes Urban League of Palm Beach County President Patrick Franklin to discuss the cost of living, economic inequality, and what leadership — and ordinary citizens — can do to close Florida’s biggest gulf. (Listen now; watch after 4 pm Wednesday)
