Randy Schultz

1 week ago | bocamag.com | Randy Schultz

Florida Atlantic University’s campus police department will cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under a program known as 287(g).

2 weeks ago | bocamag.com | Randy Schultz

More than halfway through the legislative session that ends May 2, Tallahassee continues to come after Florida’s cities. Most notably, legislators want to make it harder for local governments to oppose multi-family residential projects under the 2023 Live Local Act. The Legislature passed it in response to the state’s affordable housing crisis, which is especially acute in South Florida.

3 weeks ago | bocamag.com | Randy Schultz

Florida’s House speaker wants to end the secrecy in how the state picks university presidents. Rep. Daniel Perez, R-Miami, took his case last week to the belly of the political beast—the Board of Governors (BOG), which oversees Florida’s 12 public universities. At the BOG’s meeting in Tallahassee, Perez called the current process “a spoils system for a select few.”Those “select few” include former State Rep. Adam Hasner, who became Florida Atlantic University’s president last month.

3 weeks ago | bocamag.com | Randy Schultz

Palm Beach County may be about to choose an administrator the way Florida Atlantic University chose a president—prioritizing politics over competence. Until last week, the fix seemed to be in for Clerk and Comptroller Joseph Abruzzo to succeed Verdenia Baker as the CEO of county government. Indeed, the county chapter of the NAACP warned of an ambush last month to fire Baker—the county’s first Black administrator—well before her announced retirement on May 31, and install Abruzzo.

4 weeks ago | bocamag.com | Randy Schultz

The Everglades and South Florida won big Wednesday. That victory came from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A three-judge panel unanimously ruled against Everglades sugar growers who had demanded first dibs on water from a new reservoir in western Palm Beach County. The reservoir, which is scheduled to begin operating in 2029 or 2030, is designed to receive water sent south from Lake Okeechobee. The project is important in two ways.