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Monday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Medical marijuana ballot issue may draw new voters
Getting young people engaged in politics is never easy, but voter-registration volunteers say the medical-marijuana amendment on November's ballot is attracting new voters who otherwise might not bother with a midterm election.
› Tallahassee no longer fits as Florida's capital
For nearly 100 years it's been hard to argue that Tallahassee — at least a four-hour drive from Tampa and about eight from Miami — remains a logical spot for Florida's seat of government. Geographically, the center of Florida is Brooksville, while the Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research pegs southern Polk County as the population center of Florida based on 2010 census data.
› In multilingual South Florida, nonprofit services offered in Portuguese
Fleeing domestic violence, a sufferer surely doesn't want to be forced to speak a foreign language. That's why nonprofit Women in Distress of Broward County now offers its services in four languages in South Florida, where one in three residents was born outside the United States.
› Development past, present and future on the ballot in Miami
Miami voters will consider a 1,000-foot tower on Biscayne Bay, a new process for leasing submerged land and a new rule to prevent development projects from stalling on city property.
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