DOT repaints Pulse crosswalk for a second time. FHP and OPD watching site

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 25, 2025. Posted in Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News.

A Florida Department of Transportation crew early Sunday painted the Pulse crosswalk back to black and white for a second time as supporters continued to try to restore the rainbow-colored crossing. Now, police agencies are monitoring the site. Spectrum News 13, the Orlando Sentinel’s news partner, reported that the DOT repainted the crosswalk on Esther Street at South Orange Avenue after colored paint was used on the crossing on Saturday. Previously, supporters had been using chalk to draw back the rainbow colors, but rain washed that away. A squad of Florida Highway Patrol and Orlando...

Florida must stop expanding ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration center, shut down in 60 days, judge rules

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 22, 2025. Posted in Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Local News, Politics.

By DAVID FISCHER, MIKE SCHNEIDER and FREIDA FRISAROMIAMI (AP) — A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday halting further expansion and ordering the winding down of an <a href=”https://apnews.com/article/alligator-alcatraz-immigration-detainees-florida-cc2fb9e34e760a50e97f13fe59cbf075″>immigration detention center</a> built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” that advocates said violated environmental laws.U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams’ injunction...

Judge orders Alligator Alcatraz shut down in 60 days, says no more new detainees

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 22, 2025. Posted in Environment, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Politics, Social.

A federal judge on Thursday barred the DeSantis and Trump administrations from bringing new detainees to Alligator Alcatraz and demanded the state begin closing out operations at the immigration detention facility within 60 days. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, in her 82-page ruling, prohibited the state and federal governments from bringing additional detainees to the detention center, which has drawn mass protests. She also stopped any expansion of the detention facility, including adding industrial lighting or erecting any new buildings, such as tents or dormitories. Though her...

FPL proposes deal to increase rates — but not by as much as originally sought

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 21, 2025. Posted in Business, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Social.

TALLAHASSEE — Florida Power & Light and numerous groups and businesses have hammered out a proposed settlement that would increase base electric rates over the next four years — but not by as much as the utility originally sought. The proposed settlement, filed Wednesday at the Florida Public Service Commission, would lead to increases of $945 million in 2026 and $766 million in 2027, according to the utility. FPL also would collect additional amounts in 2028 and 2029 for solar-energy and battery-storage projects. FPL filed a proposal in February that sought increases of $1.545 billion...

Environmental groups add to legal complaints about Alligator Alcatraz

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 12, 2025. Posted in Environment, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

TALLAHASSEE — Environmental groups Friday gave formal notice that they could sue federal and state agencies over alleged violations of the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act at an immigrant-detention center in the Everglades dubbed Alligator Alcatraz. The notice was in addition to a lawsuit filed June 27 that alleges violations of the National Environmental Policy Act, a federal law that requires evaluating potential environmental impacts before such a project can move forward. The notice warned that if the alleged violations are not resolved within 60 days, Friends of the...

Environmental groups say feds ‘cannot shirk’ law by distancing from Alligator Alcatraz

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 8, 2025. Posted in Environment, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

TALLAHASSEE — As they urge a U.S. district judge to halt an immigrant-detention center in the Everglades, environmental groups are pushing back against Trump administration arguments seeking to distance the federal government from responsibility for the project. The state last week began operating what has been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” at a remote site surrounded by the Everglades and the Big Cypress National Preserve, as Gov. Ron DeSantis and other officials try to help President Donald Trump’s mass deportation of undocumented immigrants. Friends of the Everglades and the Center for...

Don’t despair, Andy Beshear and Cory Booker tell Florida Democrats

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on June 23, 2025. Posted in Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Local News, National News, National Politics, News, Politics.

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker appealed to their hearts. Gov. Andy Beshear spoke to their minds. The senator from New Jersey and the governor of Kentucky both urged Democrats from around Florida to restore their party’s image, offered prescriptions for a resurgence, and inspired inspiration for party activists anguished about what’s happening under President Donald Trump. Simultaneously, they sought to burnish their political brands through unspoken — but very much present — signals about the 2028 presidential race. Above all, though in vastly different styles and tones, Booker and Beshear urged...

Retired Florida firefighter with Parkinson’s loses disabilities fight at US Supreme Court

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on June 21, 2025. Posted in Business, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Health, Latest Headlines, News.

TALLAHASSEE — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled against a firefighter who retired early because of Parkinson’s disease and alleged the city of Sanford violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by limiting a health-insurance subsidy. Justices upheld a decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the lawsuit filed by Karyn Stanley, a fire-department lieutenant who retired in 2018 at age 47 because of the effects of the disease. The dispute stemmed from Stanley losing a health-insurance subsidy two years after she retired and involved questions about whether the city violated...

DeSantis signs death warrant for Florida’s eighth execution in 2025

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on June 14, 2025. Posted in Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for a man convicted of murdering two people in 1993 in Duval County, setting the stage for a potentially record-tying eighth execution this year. DeSantis signed the death warrant for Michael Bernard Bell, 54, with the execution scheduled July 15 at Florida State Prison, according to information posted on the state Supreme Court website. If the state puts Bell to death by lethal injection and carries out a scheduled June 24 execution of Thomas Gudinas, it would match the most executions in a year since the death penalty was...

Appeals court upholds injunction blocking Florida law targeting undocumented immigrants

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on June 7, 2025. Posted in Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

TALLAHASSEE — A federal appeals court Friday kept on hold a new Florida law targeting undocumented immigrants who enter the state, rejecting arguments by Attorney General James Uthmeier that enforcement should at least temporarily be allowed. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams in April issued a preliminary injunction to block the law, which she said was likely preempted by federal immigration authority. Uthmeier appealed the injunction to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and asked for a stay of Williams’ ruling. Such a stay could have allowed the law to be enforced while the legal...

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