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Friday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Profits growing at two South Florida banks
Two of the largest banks based in South Florida — Sabadell United and Mercantil Commercebank — increased earnings, loans and deposits in a year.
› SunRail marks 1st year of service
SunRail, the first fixed-rail mass transit system in Central Florida history, has yet to transform the way most people get around the region as it marks its one-year anniversary Friday.
› What's Southwest Florida's vision for sustainability?
With its beaches, estuaries, swamps, rivers, uplands and spectacular wildlife, Southwest Florida is, for many people, a subtropical paradise. But it's a paradise threatened by development, non-native plants and animals, excess nutrients and much more.
› Port Canaveral pushes cargo barge plan
As Port Canaveral looks at its options for rail connections to its burgeoning cargo operations, it is pushing a new proposal: Shipping cargo by barge along the Indian River Lagoon from the port to existing rail lines in Mims.
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