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| 11/1/2017

› The new Miami Beach Convention Center hotel plan is already causing a ruckus
On Tuesday, Miami Beach commissioners will discuss a new proposal for an 800-room convention center hotel, a project tourism leaders call “critical” and yet, in last year’s incarnation, failed to pass with voters.

› How declining mammal populations in the Florida Everglades are linked to the invasive Burmese python
New research published in Biology Letters looks at how declining mammal populations in the Florida Everglades is linked to the invasive Burmese python.

› Brightline's $600 million of bonds approved by Florida Development Finance Corp.
Brightline has been issued $600 million in tax-free bonds to pay for Phase 1 of its passenger railroad — between Miami and West Palm Beach — according to the Florida Development Finance Corp.

› Someone’s spying on Florida legislators. Surveillance camera found at condo building.
For at least three days in the final week of the 2017 legislative session, a covert surveillance camera recorded the comings and goings of legislators and lobbyists living on the sixth floor of the Tennyson condominium near the Capitol.

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