May 6, 2024

Thursday's Daily Pulse

What you need to know about Florida today

| 2/5/2015

› Corinthian students to get 40% cut in private loan debt
For years, government investigators have zeroed in on Corinthian Colleges Inc., a Santa Ana for-profit college operator accused of roping students into unmanageable debt by promising bright careers after graduation.

› Miami floats plan; waterways to sink gridlock
Miami city commissioners, fed up with ever-growing traffic congestion, are ready to consider the area’s vast waterways for new modes of transportation.

› Church Street grows rapidly as Orlando tech hub
Empty for more than a decade, the historic Church Street Exchange recently managed an unusual feat for downtown Orlando: Offices went from empty to full in a year.

› U.S. budget plan has money to study dredging Port Manatee
Port Manatee could eventually be deepened to handle additional ship traffic after President Barrack Obama included $700,000 in funding for a dredging feasibility study in his 2016 federal budget.

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