Florida News That Impacts You – November 19th, 2025

Your daily recap of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you throughout the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast.    

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is Florida's news that impacts you on the Brian
Mud Show. Well, and Florida, we are used to be
number one in a lot of things. It's been a
long time since we're number one in this category though
that we don't want to leave the country and Fox's
Evan Brown.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Tampa, Florida and surrounding Hillsborough County now leads the nation
in home foreclosures, making Florida the hardest hit state with
regard to home ownership in the midst of nationwide affordability issues.
The statistic is published by Adam Data Solutions, the largest
compiler of real estate data. They recorded nearly thirty seven

(00:41):
thousand foreclosure filings in October, which is a nineteen percent
jump from October of last year. Affordable home ownership has
become a political hot topic in Florida, with Governor Ron
DeSantis championing abolishing most property taxes on family homes.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
And I think it'd be instructive to know how much
any of those foreclosures may not have happened if we
did not have homestead of property taxes and so related
to this whole conversation, Palm Beach County shelving A DEI
related study officials paid four hundred and thirty thousand dollars
to conduct just last year, just in July of twenty

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twenty four. This submid the state's crackdown on unlawful policies.
The study's aim was to evaluate the disparity and minority
and women owned businesses within the county. Florida law bans
DEI based spending and decision making with taxpayer funds. The

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study appears to have been uncovered by the Florida Doese
team's audit upon Beach County. I'm not certain of that,
but this has come out on the back of that audit,
and I have a feeling we're about to get a
lot more information flow. So you literally had just last July.
Whether it's the commissioners, somebody authorized at a high level

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this illegal study to be conducted. Wonder how many people
are taxi out at their homes to fund that in
Palmach County.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Wonder if it was the outgoing county administrator.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Florida's Secretary of State Cord Byrd has advanced the proposed
recreational marijuanament led by Smart and Say Florida. That pack
that has been pushing forward for a couple occasions. Now
it has moved on to the State Attorney General's office
for consideration. The decision by the Secretary of State ends
a legal standoff between the PACK and the Secretary of

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State over the collection of approximately two hundred thousand signatures
needed to qualify for ballot access for next year's midterm elections.
Martin County officials warning local businesses and residents of a
recent surge and counterfeit twenty dollars bills being circulated throughout
the county. MCSO says the bills are hard to detect
their urging. Extra diligence cutting, checking for color shifting, ink texture,

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and a security thread counterfeit detection pins are also recommended
for area businesses. The recent issues in Martin County have
come following recent counterfeiting issues being discovered throughout the Florida
Keys into South Florida. Sunny's guys, a little bit warmer
than usual today. It's going to be another beautiful day
though highs in the low eighties. Hurricane Center's map is

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clear happy day there. Gas price is dead rise by
ten cents per gallon steel wide yesterday, though on average
three oh five per gallon is the average cross the
state in the Palm Beaches three nineteen Martin three to eleven,
right there at three oh five in Saint Luci, just
below the average at three oh four this morning in
Indian River County