May 3, 2024

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What you need to know about Florida today

| 10/16/2015

› Orlando City Brevard will call EFSC home
It's official. After months of talks Orlando City Soccer Club is going to start a United Soccer League team and Eastern Florida State College will be its home.

› Nonprofit execs move on after decade in Jacksonville: 'It's a pause'
After a decade running prominent Jacksonville nonprofits — and for Bruce Ganger, running into controversy and a lawsuit along the way — the couple is moving to the western North Carolina mountains.

› MacDill's economic impact on Tampa Bay leaps to $4.74 billion
The war in Iraq is over and the United States is drawing down operations in Afghanistan. But the economic impact of MacDill Air Force Base has increased by $1.3 billion the past two years, say figures released by base officials.

› South Floridians hit harder by freeze on Social Security payments
By law, officials said, they cannot raise the monthly benefits because consumer costs nationally are down, largely because of falling gas prices. However, costs in South Florida have risen more than the national rate — even with plummeting prices at the pump.

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