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What you need to know about Florida today

| 5/10/2017

› Cade Museum awarded $50,000
The Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention, the University of South Florida (USF), Florida Inventors Hall of Fame, and Florida High Tech Corridor Council (The Corridor) are partnering to promote Florida’s most creative inventors and researchers.

› Viewpoint: A revived wrinkle in the war against citrus greening
The Lake Wales-based Florida Natural Growers, a cooperative of 14 major Florida citrus producers, is offering $13.5 million in seed money to incentivize growers to seed new groves.

Florida's Movers & Influencers
See some of Florida's top executive moves, board appointments, civic accomplishments, and more at Florida Trend's Movers & Influencers. Each profile appears in three places: in a weekly eNewsletter, online at FloridaTrend.com and in a monthly print issue of Florida Trend. Read more here.

› Miami set to take Caribbean cuisine to global heights
Celebrated Trinidadian chef Richardson Skinner asserts firmly that the Caribbean can do much more to promote its cuisine to attract interest and travel to the region.

› Florida Forest Rangers working tirelessly during this busy wildfire season
From May to July of 1998, almost 500-thousand acres were burned, along with more than 150 structures. According to Wildfire Mitigation Specialist Patrick Mahoney, fire conditions are approaching the same level as two decades ago.

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