On this Tuesday, March 8, version of Sundial:
Palm Beach County Elections
It is election day for some South Floridians: 4 municipalities in Broward County have elections Tuesday. And 19 municipalities in Palm Beach County are internet hosting elections to fill open positions from mayor to metropolis commissioner, and ask metropolis constitution questions.
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Voters will even be filling two particular seats: in Broward, voters are selecting a state senator for District 33 which covers elements of the northeastern portion of the county. In Palm Beach County, voters are selecting a state Consultant for District 88 – that district covers Riviera Beach and a part of West Palm Beach.
WLRN’s Wilkine Brutus joined this system to discuss a number of key races in Boynton Beach, Riviera Beach, West Palm Beach, Pahokee, and extra. Yow will discover extra of WLRN’s election protection, right here.
And you could find extra reporting by Brutus on the races at stake in Palm Beach County, right here.
Palm Beach County Elections
From Tijuana to South Florida
Luis Alberto Urrea is most acknowledged as a border author.
He was born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an American mom. Urrea additionally spent a lot of his childhood in San Diego, crossing the border backwards and forwards.
“I believed all people was American and Mexican, I imply, I believed all people spoke Spanish and had an abuelita,” mentioned Urrea. “Once I was a child, it was not the border we all know now. You’ll drive into Tijuana, there have been no fences or partitions… and coming again was sort of the identical manner.”
It wasn’t actually till his father’s loss of life that he began to see one other facet to the border.
“He had a really shady, mysterious loss of life. It wasn’t good. It was a foul factor. And I feel that is when all of it modified,” he mentioned.
He had been killed on the Mexico facet of the border on his manner again to the U.S., bringing the youthful Urrea a gift for his school commencement. After his loss of life, Urrea labored as a translator for a priest who was doing work within the slums of Tijuana and years later revealed a e-book about his time there titled “Throughout the Wire: Life and Laborious Instances on the Mexican Border.”
“I noticed at one level, as a result of most of the folks we labored with on the border lived within the Tijuana rubbish dump, fairly actually. They might construct shacks out of rubbish and choose rubbish to keep alive. And it hit me that everyone, all people on the planet, eventually, goes to get up someday within the Tijuana rubbish dump, even when it is for a second. And what I imply by that’s that you are going to endure,” mentioned Urrea. “Hopefully that opens some compassion for others, too.”
He’s presenting on the Competition of the Arts Boca this Thursday at 7 p.m. on the Mizner Park Amphitheater. Discover extra details about the occasion right here.
From Tijuana to South Florida
Tallahassee Takeover
WLRN’s Tallahassee Takeover podcast takes a deep dive into how the state helps small companies problem native governments.
“Two proposed state legal guidelines would enable companies to sue and block native guidelines that harm their earnings. Native authorities officers say that is interfering with what folks need in their very own neighborhoods — and placing native taxpayers on the hook for damages,” writes WLRN reporter and podcast host Daniel Rivero.
Extra about that episode right here.
