Jane Musgrave | Stet News

In less than a month, only one of three federal judges who preside over cases at the Paul G. Rogers Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in West Palm Beach will be left.

A Palm Beach County agency that provides grants to nonprofits to help struggling teens and their families is in the crosshairs of the state’s DOGE team and county commissioners. At a meeting Aug. 26, leaders of the county’s Youth Services Department will be asked to justify why they want to give tax money to 33 agencies. It marks the commission’s first critical inquiry into spending since it created the department 10 years ago.

After flirting with it last year, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw next year will spend $1 billion — and then some. The 10-figure milestone, which came a year after he delayed expensive purchases while running for reelection to a sixth term, represents a $116 million hike over his current budget. Despite the eye-popping increase, Bradshaw wanted more.

In two weeks, a team from the government efficiency office created by Gov. Ron DeSantis will arrive in county offices to begin combing through financial records, regulations and policies to ferret out waste, according to a letter County Mayor Maria Marino received Thursday.

While Palm Beach County and its 39 cities have complied with the state DOGE team’s request for detailed financial information, some municipal leaders said they can’t understand why they were forced to waste resources on what some described as a time-consuming and tedious task.

Related Ross disowns new proposal, sent by mistake; breakdown doesn’t stop Palm Beach County from planning for convention center expansion.

Palm Beach County Clerk and Comptroller Joe Abruzzo will earn $425,000 annually when he takes the reins of county government as its top administrator on Aug. 19.

According to legislation Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed on June 13, all municipalities along the highway must sign off on the honorary designation. Since Trump’s name would be added to the stretch from Kirk Road east to State Road A1A at Mar-a-Lago, that means the county, West Palm Beach and Palm Beach must give it the OK.

President Donald Trump’s war on diversity, equity and inclusion continued its march into Palm Beach County last week when county commissioners, mostly reluctantly, suspended programs designed to help women, minorities and other disadvantaged groups succeed.

In a decision Riviera Beach officials celebrated in a press release, the nation’s high court last week declined to wade into a multimillion-dollar dispute over whether the city illegally seized Fane Lozman’s mostly submerged land along Singer Island by refusing to let him develop it.

Drama at G-Star School of the Arts has moved from the classroom to the courtroom with the founder expelled and slapped with a court order barring him from the campus he established 20 years ago.

Jupiter Medical Center is the lone local A grade in annual rankings by The Leapfrog Group.