April 28, 2024

Wednesday's Daily Pulse

What you need to know about Florida today

| 6/21/2017

› Trump's Cuba policy has some support, but is less popular than Obama's
President Donald Trump's Cuba policy is less popular than the opening created by President Barack Obama, a new Florida poll shows. The latest FAU poll also includes Trump's approval rating in Florida, which currently stands at 35% approve, 44% disapprove. Also read more from the Times/Herald.

› Genpact announces 200-job Jacksonville center
Genpact announced Tuesday that it will open a new center in Jacksonville and hire up to 200 people in its first year of operation.

› Amidst controversy, Florida Blueberry Festival won't return to Brooksville
The Florida Blueberry Festival will not return to Brooksville, and the controversial lease that the festival had forged with the City Council will not be signed.

› After Public Outcry, Florida City Moves Confederate Statue
City workers on Tuesday started moving a Confederate statue called "Johnny Reb" from a park in the heart of downtown Orlando, Florida, to a nearby cemetery, following renewed public outcry that it's a symbol of racism and white supremacy.

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