The efforts to eliminate property taxes in Florida have been met with some legitimate questions. A big one is, “How are we going to replace that money?” Governor DeSantis has some more insight into the bigger picture in a recent interview.
The big winter storm up north has resulted in a lot of complaining and a few hundred thousand people without power due to power lines being down. We certainly won’t get anything that bad, but it will dip into the 30s a few days this week if the forecasts are correct.
In today’s edition of “jobs I didn’t know existed,” McKee Botanical Gardens has appointed a new orchid curator. We wish Luis Manuel Ortiz-Jordan the best of luck in his new role.
Many of you made it to the cello performance on Saturday night. Great job, team! It’s a rare occasion that we get a touring artist of this caliber to make a stop for an intimate show in Vero Beach. If you missed it and you are curious about the artist, you can check him out for free on YouTube. It’s nice music to have going in the background if you are doing work or enjoying a meal.
Regular readers of the newsletter know how much we love vanity lists over here. Anytime we find one of our Indian River County cities on a “best of” anything list, we share it. Here’s one about the most comfortable towns on the Atlantic Coast for seniors. Very specific!
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More businesses in Vero Beach and Sebastian accepting bitcoin for payments every day. What was once dismissed as “funny internet money” is now becoming mainstream, with payments becoming available at our local businesses. Now that Fortune 500 companies are holding bitcoin in their corporate treasuries, perhaps it’s time for us to pay a little more attention to what is being heralded by some as the future of money.
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