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Amanda Hernández And Jennifer Shutt | Stateline.org (TNS) Groups that assist crime victims across the United States are bracing for significant financial pain after the amount available from a major federal victim services fund plunged $700 million this year. Congress recently lowered spending to $1.2 billion from the fund, which provides grants to nonprofit and local programs across the country. This latest round of cuts has sparked widespread concern among district attorney’s offices, rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters, child advocacy centers and law enforcement agencies that offer victim support services.

By Barbara Marquand | NerdWallet After starting a career in engineering in Boynton Beach, Florida, Moisey Abdurakhmanov was renting a home with friends when he decided he wanted his own place. “I realized I was basically paying somebody else’s mortgage every month,” he recalls. So when the lease was up, he moved back home with his parents, saved every dime he could and bought a house five months later in January 2021 — “easily one of the best decisions I’ve made.” Many millennials are taking a similar path to homeownership.

This is “Small Bites,” a South Florida Sun Sentinel feature with tiny tidbits on the food and beverage scene — because we know that sometimes you just don’t have room for a long article. You want a little news brief instead, an amuse bouche of information, if you will. Enjoy! WHAT: Caribbean cuisine will get a seaside showcase at the Second Annual Caribbean American Heritage Month Celebration on Fort Lauderdale beach. Staged at the Las Olas Oceanside Park (LOOP), the slate of events throughout the month of June will include A Taste of the Caribbean, with live cooking demonstrations and samplings every Saturday from 10:30 a.m.

In Fort Lauderdale, City Manager Greg Chavarria abruptly resigned before the Sun Sentinel reported that he was the target of an inspector general’s report that he violated the city charter by not living in the city as required. The case is likely headed to the Broward state attorney’s office. Chavarria should not be able to evade accountability by resigning and leaving town. In Pembroke Pines, Mayor Angelo Castillo ordered a police officer to remove Commissioner Jay Schwartz from a meeting because of his boorish and disruptive behavior, and City Attorney Sam Goren said the mayor had full authority to do so under the Pines charter. “You gonna toss me out?”  Schwartz taunted the mayor. In Delray Beach, Fire Chief Keith Tomey was fired for allowing on-duty firefighters to play a benefit softball game while collecting overtime, an arrogant thumb in the eye of city taxpayers. Strike three for the chief was too late in coming.

FORT LAUDERDALE — The famous black olive trees that line Las Olas look just fine to the untrained eye. But are they? The notion of doing away with the tree-lined median to make way for a multimillion-dollar makeover of the city’s most popular boulevard has sparked intense debate. The trees, planted more than five decades ago, should be left alone, traditionalists say.