Cold Front Cuisine

When freezing temperatures stunned invasive green iguanas across South Florida, most residents stayed inside and let nature sort it out. One TikTok creator did not. Gray Davis (@gray.davis) went viral after collecting a cold-stunned iguana and cooking it, complete with a dipping sauce made from the reptile’s eggs. (The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission had just issued an executive order allowing residents to “humanely remove” cold-stunned iguanas without a permit.) Davis called his creation a “Florida Man taco.”  Maybe someone should humanely remove him.

Influencer Nabbed by Sarasota Bank Manager

When social-media-star-turned-grifter Danielle Miller—who once turned clicks into luxury rentals, private jets and a $27,000-a-month waterside Miami villa—tried to scam a local Chase Bank, an alert manager called the Sarasota County’s Sheriff’s Office. Last December, Miller was sentenced to 16 years in prison by a Sarasota circuit court judge. Prosecutors say she scammed more than $1 million in pandemic disaster loans and used stolen identities, communicating with accomplices as far away as Nigeria. Ironically, the evidence all came from her cell phone. Sounds like her next biggest audience will be her fellow inmates.

Hot Stuff

The annual 2026 Australian Firefighters Calendar is available for purchase, and among this year’s featured firefighters is Gavinn Greeman of the North River Fire Department in Palmetto. Greeman appears in the calendar’s “Cat Calendar” edition—presumably for public safety and feline morale. This year’s proceeds benefited the Pasadena Humane Society following the Los Angeles wildfires and the Kerr County Relief Fund after the Texas floods. Meow.

Coach, Take a Knee

Urban Meyer has officially begun his duties as a New College of Florida board trustee, a career pivot few had on their bingo card. The College Football Hall of Fame coach, national champion at Florida and Ohio State, former network analyst and owner of a $7 million waterfront home in Sarasota, now finds himself seated at a long table listening to school president Richard Corcoran review enrollment figures and campus initiatives. Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Meyer to the board, replacing Christopher Rufo. So the man who once diagrammed fourth-quarter drives before 100,000 fans won’t be making the calls this time. Corcoran calls all the plays here with no questions asked.

Now You See It

A piece of publicly owned conservation land along Lemon Bay—donated to Sarasota County in 1998 to stay protected—recently vanished from the county’s official online property map. The change came after meetings between county staff and County Commissioner Ron Cutsinger, who owns property next door. The issue began with a dispute over trimming mangroves. It later turned into discussions about whether the county should give up its public claim to the strip of land entirely, effectively handing it over to adjacent property owners. Somewhere along the way, the conservation parcel simply disappeared from the county’s GIS map. The land is still physically there, of course. It just no longer shows up as land preserved for the public. In Sarasota, even “forever preserved” apparently comes with an asterisk—and a delete key—especially when an elected official holds the keyboard.