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Wednesday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Florida, like Trump, considered saving money by cutting food stamps
Months before Trump submitted a federal budget that would ax $193 billion from the benefits program, Florida lawmakers earlier this year tried – and failed – to cut money from the state’s share of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
› Former judge joins race for Florida attorney general
A former Florida judge is joining the race to replace Attorney General Pam Bondi. Ashley Moody, a Republican, announced her candidacy on Monday. She opened her campaign account last week.
› South Florida's No. 1 private company names chairman, president
Colin Brown
Two veteran leaders of JM Family Enterprises Inc. have taken on new roles at the company. Colin Brown, who has served as president and chief executive officer since 2003, has added the role of chairman to his title.
From Florida Trend archives:
» Colin Brown is "Floridian of the Year" (Read his full profile, from January 2016)
› St. Johns County ends evacuation re-entry tag program
After lessons learned from evacuations during Hurricane Matthew, St. Johns County has elected to end its evacuation re-entry tag program for hurricanes. In the past, green re-entry tags were issued to residents east of the Intracoastal Waterway and business owners were given two orange tags per business.
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