🍊 THE WEEKLY SQUEEZE

March 17, 2026

📆 The Florida Legislature ended its 2026 session Friday without a budget or a property tax proposal for voters to consider. What the House and Senate passed. (WUSF)

  • The Florida House blocked state Senate efforts to clean up a 2025 bill, SB 180, that hamstrings local governments’ attempts to make changes in growth management laws. (Seeking Rents)

🛑 The $700 million C-11 water impoundment project in Broward County, a long-planned and congressionally approved piece of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, has been canceled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the corps said in asking a judge to dismiss a federal lawsuit challenging the project. (Sun-Sentinel $$$)

🚜 A Miami-based developer has proposed a 24-story, 88-unit condominium tower with a private club and new retail space at 635 S. Dixie Highway, between Iris and Hibiscus streets, in West Palm Beach. (South Florida Business Journal $$$)

📰 Boca Raton’s mayoral race made national headlines after Andy Thomson won in a recount by five votes. (The Coastal StarNewsweekBoca Magazine analysis)

🇨🇺 Cubans living in the United States will be able to invest and own private businesses on the island, the country’s deputy prime minister said Monday. (Miami Herald $$$)

🔭 More details of the planned African American Museum and Research Library are coming into focus. The Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties has released an updated design for a 20,000-square-foot, two-story building, which is part of the revitalization of West Palm Beach’s Coleman Park neighborhood and its surroundings. (Release

🚚 An innovative mobile pantry program launched by the Lake Worth Beach-based Palm Beach County Food Bank is combining access to nutritious food with practical education at stops throughout the county. (Lake Worth Beach Independent)

🎙️ In “Top of Mind Florida,” podcasters Michael Williams and Brian Crowley discuss the recently completed Florida legislative session, going over what was — and wasn’t — accomplished. Plus, the future of Gov. Ron DeSantis. (Listen nowwatch here starting at 4 pm today)

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