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Friday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› AutoNation's CEO Jackson on target with bullish U.S. auto market forecast -- again
AutoNation's Mike Jackson has done it again — nailed the annual forecast for the U.S. auto market. Jackson, the chief executive at the country's largest auto retailer, predicted last year that total U.S. sales of new cars and light trucks would reach about 16.5 million for 2014.
› Detente spawns Cuban worry on US migration rights
Across an island where migrating north is an obsession, the widespread jubilation over last week's historic U.S-Cuba detente is soured by fear that warming relations will eventually end Cubans' unique fast track to legal American residency.
› Florida clerks won't give gays marriage licenses
Most of Florida's 67 clerks of court don't plan to issue marriage licenses to gay couples on Jan. 6 because they are paralyzed by confusion over whether a same-sex marriage ban is being lifted across the whole state that day, according to an Associated Press survey.
› Keys tourism bureau has slogans ready for post-embargo Cuba
How prepared is Key West for the end of the tourism embargo on Cuba? The Conch Republic already has a slogan ready: “Two Nations. One Vacation.”
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