Wednesday's Daily Pulse

› Opinion: Human Rights & Florida: Why just Cuba and Syria? [Huffington Post]
Earlier this week, under the symbolic backdrop of the Freedom Tower in Miami, Governor Rick Scott signed a bill that prohibits the state of Florida and local governments from negotiating $1 million-plus contracts with firms that do business in Cuba or Syria. It's modeled after a prior bill that targeted companies doing business with the "terrorist" states of Iran and North Korea. The measure would have a major impact on our trading partners, particularly Canadian and Brazilian companies looking to expand business in Florida.

› Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show' to tape in Tampa during RNC [Tampa Bay Times]
Comic Jon Stewart's award-winning news satire The Daily Show will tape a week's worth of episodes at the David A. Straz Jr. Center in Tampa during the Republican National Convention in August. The show distributed all tickets for the tapings within an hour of announcing the shows Tuesday. Fans signed up for free admission to the shows, which will air on Comedy Central at 11 p.m. from Tuesday, Aug. 28, to Friday, Aug. 31, through the program's website, thedailyshow.com.

› Florida seeks changes to Medically Needy program [Fort Myers News-Press]
Florida Medicaid officials have asked the federal government to approve major changes in a program that serves tens of thousands of people with costly medical conditions, seeking to install a type of managed care and require monthly premium payments.

› Florida investigating potential non-citizen voters [CBS4]
State officials are investigating the citizenship of thousands of registered voters, 2,000 of those potential non-citizen voters are registered in Miami-Dade County alone. At least one person on the list has had the opportunity to vote for the past 40 years. "These are the people that we have to notify by mail that we have a reason to believe that they’re a non-citizen," said Christina White, Deputy Supervisor of Elections.
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