April 27, 2024

Wednesday's Daily Pulse

What you need to know about Florida today

| 12/10/2014

› Taxpayers out $307,000 so far in fight over welfare drug tests
Taxpayers are on the hook for at least $307,000, and perhaps much more, to cover legal expenses in Gov. Rick Scott's failed efforts to convince courts that a campaign pledge to drug test welfare recipients is constitutional.

› Small company thrives with Women’s Business Center help
Headquartered in Melbourne, Kegman Inc. is an Economically Disadvantaged, Women-Owned and Veteran-Owned Small Business that began with a part-time Security Division in 1999 providing commercial and residential security services.

› In Wynwood, a fine line between art and vandalism
In Miami’s Wynwood, where art and vision have turned a once-blighted collection of warehouses into a thriving community, spray cans and concrete go together like peanut butter and jelly. But art is in the eye of the beholder.

› Q&A: What happens if the Tampa Bay Rays leave Tropicana Field?
St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman and the Tampa Bay Rays have reached a "memorandum of understanding" to let the team explore new stadium sites in Tampa. If the team finds a location outside St. Petersburg, they would then ask to terminate their current contract on Tropicana Field and the provisions of the memorandum would kick in.

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