Florida News That Impacts You – March 12th, 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 (00:04):
From West Palm Beach to Tallahassee. This is Florida's News
that impacts you on the Brian Mudshow. Yeah, Brian and
Joel Malcolm with you. Turnout in Tuesday's uniform municipal elections
in Palm Beach County was low, with elections taking place
in thirteen communities representing about twenty three percent of the
county's registered voting population. Turnout only slightly above thirteen percent

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among eligible voters. Mayoral winners from Tuesday's municipal elections across
the Palm Beaches were Rebecca Shelton and Boyden Beach, Jim
Koretzky and Jupiter and Jeff Mara and Royal Palm Beach.
All ballot questions presented to voters pass, including measures in
Highland Beach, Loxahatchie Groves, and all three questions in the

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Village of Golf. Other winners included Boyden Beach Commissioner Thomas Turkin,
Palm Beach Gardens council member Marcy Tinsley and Scott Kemp
and Jupiter, Phyllis Joy and Malise Sunderstrom, and Lake Park
commissioners Michael Hensley and Judith Thomas, along with John Lyndon
and Michael O'Rourke and lake Worth Beach Commissioner Christopher McVoy.

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You're going to have a runoff election take place for
the other commission race between Greg Richter and Anthony Sagrich
In Lantana, Jesse riverro for town council wax Aggie Groves.
Paul Coleman won his race for council and Pohochy James
Scott won a commission race. Rivier Beach, you had Bruce
Giden pulled out a close win, with Shirley Lanier winning

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the city's other district trace in Royal Pump Beach. For
City Council, you have Sylvia Sharps that currently holds a
seventeen vote advantage over Steve Avilla in a race that
may go to a runoff. Cool and Sunday Today highs
in the upper seventies, which is a bit cooler than
usual for this date. Similar warmer weather expected for Thursday,

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Temps gradually rising heading into the weekend, and some good
news continuing on gas prices down another three cents per gallon.
We're back to seeing the lowest prices of the year.
The average price four regular on Leadens Day. Wine three
to zero two this morning, and the bomb beaches your
average price three sixteen and Martin back below the three
dollars market two ninety nine and even lowerned that in

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the Indian River County this morning at two ninety eight
per gallon all Right.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
National headlines. The House passing a six month funding bill
to prevent a partial government shut down. Bill narrowly passing
two seventeen to two thirteen yesterday, all but one Republican
supporting the six month stopgap measure. The proposal now heads
to the Senate deadline Friday night. Ukraine agreed to a
thirty day ceasefire with Russia if Russia accepts. The tentative

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deal comes after a day of negotiations between Ukraine and
the US in Saudi Arabia yesterday. President Trump today will
be hosting Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin at the White House.
Martin News, visiting as part of a tour around Saint
Patrick's Day, said he hopes the two leaders can talk
about how to secure peace, whether in the Middle East
or Ukraine. Department of Education being gutted staff receiving an

(03:10):
email yesterday notifying them they had to vacate the department's
headquarters by six pm. The email said the closure was
for security reasons. Just a few hours later, a senior
department official announced over thirteen hundred staffers received notifications that
they are being fired the Agriculture Department, bringing back more
than five thousand probationary workers who were fired last month.

(03:31):
The department said the employees will be reinstated today with backpay.
This comes almost a week after a federal board order
the USDA to reinstate the terminated workers for at least
forty five days because the firings may have been illegal.
Those are your headlines.