Florida News That Impacts You – May 14th, 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 (00:00):
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news that impacts you on the Brian Mudsill. Yeah, Brian
mud and Joel Malkinn with you, and good news for you, Joel,

(00:21):
You're going to be able to take your youngest to
a drag show still.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
A three judge panel of the Atlanta based Eleventh Circuit
Court of Appeal said the Florida laws, likely on constitutionality,
is what is keeping the decision barring its enforcement in place.
Republican Governor Ron de Santis signed the law two years
ago this month, aimed at punishing venues for letting children
in to see adult live performances. The ruling of the

(00:50):
judges panel was not unanimous. A lawyer for one drag
themed establishment in Florida said the decision means First Amendment
rights are still protected. The case now goes back to
the Middle District of Florida, which can now schedule a
federal trial.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Box is Granald Scott there, Do you have any particular favorites?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Will I will tell you one thing about my youngest
who is twelve years old. Thank god, she has zero
interest in going to a drag show. Okay, she likes
she does enjoy Hamilton.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, all right, and so culture, Yeah, Taylor's.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Swift and those people. But that being said, she's not
interested in drag shows.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Very good, so very good. All right, that's encouraging. Florida's
House select Committee, this is not encouraging. By the way,
Florida's House Selects Committee on Property Taxes send a letter
to Governor d Santis on Tuesday asking for his participation
in an upcoming hearing that will consider whether to advance
a proposal studying the effects of eliminating property taxes within

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the state, a plan that is supported by the governor.
Among Tuesday's committee findings, property taxes are the largest revenue
stream in fifty one of florida sixty seven counties, with
one hundred and eighty one of Florida's four hundred and
eleven municipalities also mostly reliant on property taxes for revenue.

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By the way, nothing really seems to be getting done
in this extended overtime session at this point, like every day,
and that was the extent of anything that seemed to
matter as they sent a letter to DeSantis. Yesterday, the
National Weather Service confirmed an EF zero tornado with winds
of seventy to seventy five miles an hour making its
way through lots of hatche near lying country Safari to

(02:32):
the acreage on Monday, as that severe weather rolled through
topp of trees. Minor damage reported in the area. A
prescribed burn taking place at Jonathan Dickinson State Park today
and tomorrow, weather permitting. Two burns are aimed at four
hundred and forty acres of pine flatwoods along Park Drive
and an area near Eagles View. Today, sunny and warm

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hides in the mid eighties, typical for the state. Sunny
skies still hotter conditions the rest of the week. Gas
prizes when they were a second straight day yesterday, adding
seven cents per gallon, so the average price for regular
unleaded is currently three twelve per gallon. The font vetches
three twenty five this morning, Martin three nineteen and an
Indian River County three poin fifteen per gallon.