Joel Engelhardt | Stet News
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The taxable value of property in Palm Beach County is growing grew by 10% last year — the third straight year of double-digit gains. Here are the latest trends, portending tax rates set by cities and countywide agencies.
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After years of work, a little-known advisory committee has submitted its recommendation to county commissioners on how to spend $148 million over 20 years from opioid lawsuit settlements.
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The proposal to restore the Harriet Himmel Theater in CityPlace, in West Palm Beach, calls for wiping out one of the most prominent characteristics of the 1926 church: the entry stairway on the building’s north end.
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About 50 people descended on Palm Beach Gardens City Hall to express outrage over the decision to lease the city’s oldest park to a private group to build an ice-rink complex.
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Public comment period underway for study that would pave the way to extend the diagonal runway to 6,000 feet at the North Palm Beach County Airport outside Palm Beach Gardens.
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A vote is scheduled for Thursday on a 40-year lease to allow an ice-rink complex at Plant Drive Park but a proposal for a gymnasium at the Gardens North County District Park appears dead.
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All five annexation efforts launched by Palm Beach Gardens failed to generate even 10% favorable vote. And the three annexations launched by North Palm Beach to counter Palm Beach Gardens did even worse.
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Palm Beach State College trustees want more details about prefab metal building that would replace air-inflated dome.
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An extension of the 1-cent sales tax to pay to move Tri-Rail to the coast is one of several big-dollar discussions on the agenda today for the Palm Beach County Commission.
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The first full public accounting of the 2022 death of Romen Phelps, a 33-year-old electrician who crashed into Dreyfoos High School of the Arts while in the throes of a drug-induced mania, shows that a 2-minute clash with a cop - who refused to grant police an interview but was later honored - ended his life.
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Martina Tate-Walker backed out of her campaign for West Palm commission in November after a job offer from a mysterious organization that she said required she give up her political ambitions. Then, she wasn't paid.
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At least 24 council members in 11 of Palm Beach County’s 39 towns have resigned. Call them victims of Ethics Form 6, the detailed income disclosure requirement that an estimated 2,500 Florida city council members in office on Jan. 1 must file for the first time.