If you thought you heard a jet roaring over Vero Beach yesterday, you weren’t imagining things. One of the Blue Angels was visiting in preparation for the spring air show.
If you have been a reader here for a while, you may have noticed that we don’t touch national politics in this newsletter. There are plenty of places to get that info and we don’t need to reinvent the wheel.
However, sometimes national stuff bleeds into Florida stories of note. In today’s example, Governor DeSantis is advocating for an “AI bill of rights”, while the Trump Administration has directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to create an AI litigation task force to sue states who try to get in the way of federal supremacy when it comes to AI regulations.
In other AI-related news, a child who went missing in 1983 has been identified and located in Florida thanks to a Crime Stopper’s tip. AI was used to create an image of what the child would look like today, which was good enough to identify her. I don’t know about you, but I find that sort of technology equal parts fascinating and terrifying.
Indian River Lagoon was found to have trillions of particles of microplastics. Microplastics are a big problem in virtually all of the bodies of water in the world. They come from garbage that breaks down over time (like plastic bottles) and industrial waste that contains small particles.
One thing we do in our family is buy our salt from places where they dig it out of the ground instead of harvest it from sea water to avoid microplastics. We are big fans of Himalayan pink salt that is mined in the Himalayas (widely available at grocery stores everywhere), and Redmond’s Real Salt that is mined in Utah. There’s no way to completely avoid microplastics these days because they exist pretty much everywhere, but we do what we can.
The Treasure Coast has been experienced arrests of illegal immigrants who represent “the worst of the worst.” Most of the arrests have been gang members and other undesirables who have either overstayed their visitor visas, or arrived in the US illegally in the first place.
A rollover crash on US 1 near Valkaria Road claimed the life of the driver. The driver reportedly struck a raised median.
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