May 6, 2024

Tuesday's Daily Pulse

What you need to know about Florida today

| 6/20/2017

› Meal delivery: Broward and Palm Beach-based companies vie for national market
South Florida’s meal-delivery companies are hungry to expand to the national marketplace. But they’re cooking up different strategies to get there.

› An FPL power plant once stood there. Homes may be next. But there is a problem.
One of the last prime waterfront properties in Miami-Dade is at the center of a tug-of-war between as a luxury homebuilder wants to build 600 homes and a private marina on the 69-acre site of the former Florida Power & Light Cutler Power Plant.

› Florida institutes mandatory minimums for fentanyl possession
New legislation establishes mandatory minimum sentences for possession of certain amounts of fentanyl -- a powerful synthetic opioid -- and its many derivatives. See the new law, HB 477 Controlled Substances, here.

› Florida Skateboarders Plan Skate Ramp in Havana
A group of Florida skateboarders has gone to Cuba to build what they said would be the island nation's first concrete skate ramp. Skateboarders from Tampa were joining a project led by a Miami skateboarding charity that has been distributing skateboards in Cuba since 2009.

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