WLRN WEEKEND: A collection of this week’s feature stories for your weekend reading
After a university shut down its diversity center, students stepped up
Public colleges and universities across Florida are closing down diversity, equity and inclusion programs, in response to changes in state law. At Florida Atlantic University, that led to the closure of the Center for IDEAs. But now students are bringing new life to the space.
A local art tradition marks anniversary of a president who was at home in Key West
To commemorate the 79th anniversary of former President Harry S. Truman taking office, staff at the Truman Little White House in Key West put on an outdoor painting event. The event tied art and history — with roof shingles originally from 1911 as the canvas.
Opaque portfolio, lackluster returns: What can we learn about UF investments targeted by protests
The University of Florida has the largest endowment of any university in the state and like elsewhere in the county, protesters are demanding divesture from companies doing business with Israel. While learning its investments is impossible, seeing its underwhelming investment returns isn’t.
Plan to spend $2.7 billion to protect Miami-Dade from storm surge soon headed to Congress
A final Back Bay plan worked out between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Miami-Dade County is scheduled for June, with the hope of getting it authorized in the 2024 national water resources legislation now being hammered out by Congress.
Biden's rocky effort to ease student loan debt has borrowers filled with anxiety
Federal student loan borrowers number about 2.7 million in Florida and they owe more than $103 billion. Nationwide, more than 43 million borrowers owe a collective $1.7 trillion, according to the latest data, with the average amount per borrower topping $37,000.
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Joel Engelhardt/StetThe 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. -
Phil Sears/FR170567 APThe sheriff's office in Leon County, Florida, said a falling tree killed a woman inside her family's home in the Tallahassee area. Some of the strongest storms early Friday rolled through Tallahassee, toppling trees across the state's capital city.
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The audit says the airport is paying more for law enforcement services than multiple other airports because it cannot contract services from other law enforcement agencies. -
A civil rights attorney says deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman. Fortson died after the shooting at his off-base residence in Fort Walton Beach. -
Barron Trump, who turned 18 in March, has largely been kept out of the spotlight — until now. His mother's office said he had "prior commitments."
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