Boynton Beach and Delray Beach have gained two colorful rainbow-flag intersections to coincide with PRIDE Month. The cities say they want to show themselves as progressive places for people to settle in and set up businesses.
Palm Tran rolls-out Ride with Pride, hiring range of positions
The public transit bus system is hiring bus operators, paint and body specialists, utility workers and senior staff.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. â More companies in the area are attracting employees by promoting corporate social responsibility from health and safety to human rights and the environment. This month LGBTQ rights and advocacy receives more visible attention.
Andrew Tilley has driven for Palm Tran for five years and he s committed to a public system thatâs committed to him being out and proud. I am an out and proud gay man who is married eight years now and enjoying being in may community and recognizing my community, said Tilley. We need more of that in today s society, so it s very important to have your company behind you.
Among the vetoes was $3 million toward a $4.5 million stormwater runoff project that Berman requested along with Rep. David Silvers, a Lake Clarke Shores Democrat, on the House side. She hopes that the federal government can make up for what the state couldn’t provide.
But not everyone felt that way.
“I had $25 million of appropriations in play and I walked away with $23.5 million, so I’m a happy guy,” said state Rep. Mike Caruso, a Boca Raton Republican. Among the wins was dollars toward a Lake Worth Lagoon monitoring project, a project that was vetoed last year.
Yet a loss is a loss, no matter how you slice it, he added.
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