Today's Top Stories - October 2nd, 2026

Protecting the Palm Beaches & Today's Talkbacks - October 2nd, 2026

Your daily recap of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you throughout the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast.

Interview: Trump to the Campaign Trail & Iran Developments w/Jon Decker

The democrats that continue to fight the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies are effectively fighting not only for lawlessness, higher crime rates, and higher costs for government assistance programs too – but for higher rent rates and overall housing inflation too. There are two sides to stories and one side to facts. These are the facts.

Today's Top Stories, October 1st - 2026

Your daily recap of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you throughout the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast.

This year we've had only eight named storms and most notably, we've not yet had a hurricane develop in the Atlantic Basin. This year marks the first year since the onset of the in the satellite era in the 1960's, that we've entered October without a hurricane having developed. The combination of an El Nino which has become stronger throughout the season with high levels of Saharah dust, have set the stage for what could be at least one of the three most benign hurricane seasons since the onset of official record keeping began in 1851.

First of all, most people are mostly positive people...believe it or not. Medical research has shown that, without prompting, the average person will spend 52% of the time on positive thoughts, with 34% of the time spent on negative thoughts and 14% that are neutral/ambivalent. That's not necessarily great; naturally spending over a third of one's time focusing on negativity isn't the healthiest or best thing to be doing...but still, the average person is mostly positive if left to their own thoughts. But why then is there so much negativity in society? The reason is that the typical person is far more responsive to negativity than they are to positivity. Research has also shown that negativity carries 1.5 to 2 times the psychological impact of positivity typically.