Changes could help homeowners, but leave $1.4B hole in municipal budgets The most comprehensive analysis to date of the impact of proposals to overhaul Florida property taxes shows the dramatic and far-reaching impacts the plans would have in Broward County. Individual Broward homeowners could see thousands of dollars in savings a year. But the cumulative effect of those tax reductions on homes and condos could add up to the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars, or more

Broward County has a waste crisis. We generate about 20,000 pounds of waste every minute, which is about 10.6 billion pounds every year. Our county landfill is nearing capacity and the waste-to-energy facility is at capacity. Our garbage must go somewhere. This crisis will cost us a lot more to manage if we do not change our behavior. Right now, our recycling rate in Broward County is approximately 39%, which is embarrassing. The state goal is 75%. At this pace, future dispo

An thony Man | aman@sunsentinel.com | South Florida Sun Sentinel PUBLISHED: November 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM EST Momentum for drastically reducing property taxes in Florida is seemingly unstoppable. So city, town, village and county officials have stepped up warnings about the jeopardy such cuts present to the local government services people rely on for their safety and quality of life. Even if every last dollar of what critics deem wasteful or frivolous is squeezed out of loca

A new Florida law allowing select charter school operators to set up their programs within the walls of traditional public schools, rent free, is a lesson in power, politics, money — and how the three combine late at night in the state Capitol. The result got a failing grade from state Rep. Robin Bartleman, a Weston Democrat, former teacher, former assistant principal, and mother of a teacher. “I was crushed,” she said in an interview. “I am crushed.” It wasn’t just the polic