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April 26, 2024 5 mins
Your daily recap of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you in South Florida.   
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There are two sides to every story. On one side to facts. This
is the Brian Mudd Show. IfFlorida News that impacts you, Brian Mud
and Joel Malkin with you. OnThursday, Governor de Santis said Florida will
not comply with the Biden Administration's newlyproposed Title nine changes that would give biological
males identifying as females protection under theUS Department of the Education Act. Quoting

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DeSantis, we will not comply andwe will fight back. We are not
going to let Joe Biden try toinject men into women's activities. We're not
going to let Joe Biden undermine therights of parents who are not going to
let Joe Biden abuse his constitutional authorityto try to impose these policies on us.
Here in Florida, any property insuranceroundtable hosted by Florida CFO Jimmy Patrona

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is called putting policyholders First. Patronhas highlighted the recently as signed laws making
the My Say Florida Home program permanentand establishing the My Say Florida Condominium program
as moral obligations. I call themoral obligations from the state to four Ardians.
The annual GRAMT programs enable eligible Fordiansto receive up to ten thousand dollars
from the state for home hardening measures, which also help lower insurance insurance rates.

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Ford Insurance Commissioner Mike Yorsky spoke tothe improving property insurance market, including
at least four property insurance which haveannounced rate cuts for policy renewals this year.
However, he also highlighted the ongoingchallenges and the crisis having been established
through litigation. He said right nowas they're continuing to work through litigation from

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years gone by, quoting him,there is more litigation pending from Hurricane Ian
for citizens in Miami Dade County thanin Charlotte, Lee and Call You're combined.
That makes absolutely no sense. Yeah, because you got obviously more scam
artists in Miami day than doing thosethree counties combined, is what it gets
down to. Of course, thepoint of impact Miami Dade was his essentially

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unimpacted by Ian, with those threecounties being the point of landfall of v
in. Numerous Florida cities rank amongthe best four air quality in the country
according to the latest State of theAir report from the American Lung Association,
including the Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Naples, and Palm Bay, Melbourne
Titusville metros tied for first in thecountry in particle pollution and or ozone air

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pollution. Don't typically hear these typesof things, and I'm kind of surprised
there hasn't been more attention to thissince Florida has the best air in the
country. And get this, whatcounty do you think is number one?
On balance? Give you the topmetros in particular, as we talked about
cities, but what about counties.Top county in what is a top state

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for air quality in the country.Palm Beach County. Palm Beach County is
the lowest particle pollution of any countyin the state. No Florida locations ranked
below average in air quality either.So good news all the way around.
Another nice day to day highs inthe low eighties, which is typical for
this date. Similar weather did throughthe weekend with the wind that'll be picking
up after dropping four strike days tostart the week. Gas prices rose on

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Thursday by four cents per gallon,but not in South Florida. I remember
yesterday I had mentioned that you wouldsee lower prices by the end of the
day, even with prices rising statewide. In Paul Beach County, Martin and
Indian River County, prices are lowertoday than they were this time yesterday.
While the price is rose to threefifty two per gallon statewide, and Paul

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Beach County, the average price droppeda couple cents per gallon to three seventy
one, Martin dropped a few centsto three fifty four, and likewise down
a few cents in Indian River Countyto three forty eight per gallon. All
right, we'll get to look atsome national headlines. Supreme Court considering whether
former President Trump is immune from criminalprosecution for actially took an office. Case
before them yesterday centate around Trump's federalelection interference charges. As attorney arguing prosecuting

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a president for official acts is incompatiblewith the Constitution, Special Councilery arguing the
Constitution does not grant a president absoluteimmunity. The tales of David Pecker's involvement
in Donald Trump's alleged hush money trialcame to light in court yesterday. Pecker
took the stand for his third dayof testimony revealing conversations between himself, the
former president, and associate Michael Cohen. Pecker says he arranged to buy the

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story surrounding Trump's alleged affair with playboymodel Karen McDougall for one hundred and fifty
grand, but backed out after consultingwith election lawyers, believing the payment may
break the law. More testimony inthe case today. Columbia University dropped its
midnight deadline for hundreds of anti Israelstudent protesters to remove their tent camps from
the school grounds. University's president issuinga statement late yesterday saying talks with the

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students have shown progress and are continuinghis planned Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein having
his conviction for sex crimes in NewYork overturned. New York Court of Appeals
ruled yesterday Weinstein did not receive afair trial, a court finding the judge
in his trial made an error allowingwomen to testify about alleged sexual assaults committed
by winste that were not part ofthe charges against him. He is still

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in jail, though on other charges. First night of the NFL drafted offensive
players off the board, Flying offthe board, a record twenty three of
them taken in the first round lastnight, including six quarterbacks in the first
twelve picks. The Bears kicked offthe night by selecting USC quarterback Caleb Williams
first overall. Dolphins selected Penn Statelinebacker Chop Robinson with the twenty first overall

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pick, which tells you that it'seither going to be the greatest quarterback class
of all time, or most likely, you're going to have a lot of
really bad draft picks in hindsight.Here
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