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Friday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› After slow start, St. Petersburg Job Corps seeing rise in graduation rate
Almost four years after the Pinellas Job Corps Center graduated its first class of 55 students, the facility, which got off to a slow start, is finally at full capacity. And its graduation rate has jumped from 54 percent to 76 percent.
› In Orlando, Uber hits 1 million trips
Transportation networking company Uber threw a party in downtown Orlando Thursday to mark over one million trips and one year of operation in the tourism capital of the U.S.
› Miami No. 2 in startup activity, Kauffman report says
The Miami-Fort Lauderdale metropolitan area again landed near the top of the Kauffman Foundation’s index of startup activity, ranking No. 2 of the 40 largest metro areas studied.
› Debate over peacocks ruffles feathers on Longboat Key
For decades, peacocks and their plain-Jane female counterparts, peahens, have stirred fascination and frustration in the Longbeach Village neighborhood on the north end of Longboat Key, crossing roads and lawns and roosting in trees and on rooftops
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