Stet News👀 A bill to create a counterintelligence and counterterrorism unit within the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is moving through the Legislature. Its aim would be the detection, identification and neutralization of “adversary intelligence entities,” which include a “person whose demonstrated actions, views, or opinions are a threat or are inimical to the interests of this state and the United States of America.” (Florida Trident)
🚫 Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office walks back immigration bonuses for deputies. (Florida Phoenix)
Longtime powerhouse West Palm Beach attorney Jon Moyle died Feb. 21 in Tallahassee at age 91. A power in Democratic politics, he co-founded the Moyle, Flanigan law firm in the early 1960s in West Palm Beach. (Bevis Funeral Home)
👋🏼 Diane Hernandez Del Calvo is the interim director of Tri-Rail as Executive Director David Dech departed Friday for a job in Indiana. The move comes as a search begins for a new director and Tri-Rail’s future depends on legislation now before the Florida Legislature. “If I thought that the funding was not going to be restored, if I thought this was a sinking ship, I would stay here and go down with it,” Dech said. (Sun-Sentinel $$$)
🐐 Goat Foods, which oversees a portfolio of online snack brands, has expanded with a new headquarters to Southern Way Business Center at 205 Sansbury Way with plans to grow from 75 staff members to 225. (South Florida Business Journal $$$)
🔥 A steamy Lake Worth Beach will be on view during a screening of the 1981 classic “Body Heat” on Thursday at the Lake Worth Playhouse. (Lake Worth Beach Independent)
📺 Former WPTV news anchor and friend of Stet Michael Williams is the narrator of the Friends of the Everglades nine-part video series, “The Everglades Story.” (Friends of the Everglades YouTube page)
💥 Talking about video, Stet News exclusively posted the complete PBC Channel 20 recording of Palm Beach County Mayor Sara Baxter’s contentious Project Tango Data Center Town Hall held on Feb. 25 in Royal Palm Beach. Take a look and if you like what you see, please subscribe. (Stet News YouTube page)
💡 North Palm Beach’s new benches, at Lakeside Park and Anchorage Park, were created by NobleWins, a company that recycles retired wind turbine blades. (Village Facebook page)
🎙️ “Top of Mind Florida,” the podcast by Michael Williams and Brian Crowley, welcomes Taylor Morgan of the Kind Diners Society. They explore why restaurant workers are leaving the industry in record numbers, the post-COVID collapse of common courtesy, and what it really means to treat service workers as human beings. (Listen now; watch)
