May 5, 2024

Friday's Daily Pulse

What you need to know about Florida today

| 5/5/2017

› Melbourne airport ranked among most picturesque
Orlando Melbourne International Airport has been lauded as one of the world's top landing strips. See more, including a video, from Florida Today.

› Trial attorneys and Chamber both pushing to kill workers compensation compromise bill
On Thursday in an unusual display of unity, lobbyists for the Chamber and the Florida Justice Association sent the same message to Florida Senators: kill a compromise bill related to workers compensation.

› Space Florida seeks new fuel, facilities at former shuttle landing strip
Growing commercial activity at Kennedy Space Center is prompting Space Florida to seek contractors to provide more fuel and new air-traffic-control facilities at the runway known as the Shuttle Landing Facility.

› Florida Farming Pioneer Still Making the Honor Roll
Alto Straughn, a farming trailblazer and longtime supporter of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), was recently presented with the school’s Distinguished Alumnus Award.

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