Florida News That Impacts You – March 13th, 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):
This is Florida's news that impacts you on the Brian
Mud Show. Yeah, Brian Mudd and Joel Malkolm with you
so as I was talking about it. My takeaways Lucky
us Bordians paid six hundred and sixty million dollars to
cover the cost of healthcare of illegal immigrants last year,
according to a new report from the Florida Agency for
Healthcare Administration. The report site sixty seven thousand, seven hundred

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illegal immigrants who made emergency room visits with costs covered
completely by taxpayers over the past year. The cost amounts
to an extra seventy seven dollars and nineteen cents per
Florida household. A recent law passed by the state of
Florida mandates data collection of the patient's immigration status. That
is what led to these findings. Previously, we just didn't know.

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We didn't have this information. The Martin County Commission voted
unanimously to reject the implementation of Brightline quiet zones, desired
by residents and close proximity to the rail road tracks.
Officials said the vote was to prioritize safety over quality
of life considerations. Bob Beach County School Board has approved
new zoning maps that will bring an estimated six hundred

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students to the newly completed saddle View Elementary School in Wellington.
The school, which will open in August with the new
school year, will gain the highest number of students from
Bing's Forest Elementary. Cool start Sunday skies yet again. Today
Hines will be near eighty, which is a bit warmer
than usual for this date. Similar weather expected for Friday.
Tempts gradually rising over the weekend, and good news on

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the gas prights front. Gas price has dropped another two
cents per gallon on Wednesday. We are at a fresh
low for the year. Now average prize for regular unleaded
in Florida now three dollars per gallon even and in
the Pond beaches at three thirteen per gallon. In Martin
and Indian River County this morning down to two ninety

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five per gallon.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
International headline, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumers's Democrats have the
needed votes to block a Republican spending bill. This is
tomorrow's deadline to avoid a partial government shut down. Looms
bill narrowly passed in the House. US officials making their
way to Russia today to talk about a possible ceasefire
with Ukraine. This after Ukraine agreed to a thirty day
ceasefire in its fight against the Russian invasion launched more

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than three years ago. Lead of NATO will be at
the White House today to meet with President Trump and
discussed the situation. Meanwhile, the President claims there have been
far more debts in the Russian Ukraine war than have
been reported. Speaking from the White House yesterday with the
Irish Prime Minister, Trump once again said the war never
would have started if he were the president the last
four years. A federal judges found the President fired the

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head of a federal employee labor labor board unlawfully. The
ruling found Trump fired Susan Grudman, the Democrat appointed chair
of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, unlawfully and violated federal
laws on the power of Congress to establish the independent
body and in total lunar eclipse will be visible early
to mormorrow morning. Experts say a full moon called a

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blood moon, will make the moon appear red during a
total lunar eclipse that will peak two fifty five am tomorrow.
The entire eclipse will start just before midnight tonight, lasting
roughly six total hours. Those are your headlines.