A bad deal, narrowly averted in Palm Beach

A bad deal, narrowly averted in Palm Beach

Palm Beach County commissioners have made the right call to launch a national search for a new county administrator — prior to that, things were not looking good. A bare majority of four commissioners initially preferred a truncated job application window to run one of the largest local governments in Florida. (Verdenia Baker, who has been county administrator for a decade, will retire May 31.) Joe Abruzzo, the elected county clerk of courts and…