🍊 THE WEEKLY SQUEEZE

January 27, 2026

👛 Tri-Rail is looking at raising fares as it lobbies the Legislature to restore its $42 million allotment, which was cut to $15 million in last year’s legislative session. (Sun-Sentinel $$$)

🏃‍➡️ Catch up on the latest property tax cut proposals as they stream through the Florida House. (Florida Trident)

🤝🏼 A Related Ross affiliate now owns the majority of the condominiums in Southbridge, an aging complex at the foot of the Southern Boulevard bridge across from Mar-a-Lago. Southbridge Acquisitions paid about $38 million for 45 of the 63 condos, an average of $844,444 each. Most were valued by the property appraiser at or below $250,000 before the sales. (South Florida Business Journal $$$)

🏈 Jupiter High School’s head football coach has accepted a job at Division III Dill Lawrence University in Wisconsin. Jason Kradman led the Warriors to their first undefeated 10-0 regular season in program history. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)

🚨 Red alert! Downtown Lake Worth Beach is about to be romped by an incursion of Mrs. Ropers! (Lake Worth Beach Independent)

🪴A group seeking to place a recreational-marijuana constitutional amendment on the ballot was dealt a blow on Friday as an appeals court sided with the Florida secretary of state to invalidate 70,000 signatures. The deadline to submit petition signatures is Sunday. (South Florida Sun Sentinel $$$)


🎙️ “Top of Mind Florida,” the podcast by Michael Williams and Brian Crowley, talks property taxes, Florida DOGE and the “Silver Tsunami” with Palm Beach County-based Florida Senate Minority Leader Lori Berman. (Listen now; watch.)

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