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What you need to know about Florida today

| 7/15/2015

U.S. businesses may be big losers of the Iran nuclear deal

Within hours of the announcement of an Iran nuclear deal early on Tuesday, lawyers around Washington were fielding calls from U.S. corporate clients eager to know what the 159-page deal would mean for their business prospects. In the near term, the answer for most of them is: not very much. Read the full story, here.

Public comment window closing on Everglades bike path

The window for public comment on the latest Everglades tourism project is closing soon. The controversial River of Grass Greenway (ROGG) would be a 75-mile bike path running along U.S. 41 from Naples to Miami. More at WUSF.

Darden real-estate spinoff could change bottom line, not brand

Darden Restaurants plans to split in two by the end of this year, but the spinoff of the Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse restaurants' real estate won't help the company's "brand renaissance" efforts, analysts and industry experts say. More at the Orlando Sentinel.

CSX warns it will be hard to hit profit goals for year

CSX says faltering demand for coal and crude oil will slow profit growth this year and the railroad plans to lay off roughly 1 percent of its workers to adjust. More at the AP.

Goodwill turns to solar to help planet, people

Goodwill Industries of Central Florida, which already has vowed to use only American-made materials in its construction projects, is now going green. During the next 25 years, Goodwill CEO Bill Oakley said, that conversion to solar will save the charity nearly $5.4 million on its power bills. More at the Orlando Sentinel.

Around the State
Sand Storm

Cemex is lashing back against officials in Orange and Lake counties after votes against the cement company’s plans for a sand-mining operation near the border of the two counties. The company is arguing in a lawsuit that votes by the both counties are illegal.

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Military Business
Boot Camp for Cyberwarriors

Inside the U.S. Navy’s Corry Station base in Pensacola, there’s a school that wouldn’t look out of place on any well-manicured college campus—except for a handful of buildings wreathed in barbed wire, with the windows bricked up. The buildings make up the Center for Information Dominance (CID), the Pentagon’s primary boot camp for personnel training in the art of cyberwar.