May 3, 2024

Wednesday's Daily Pulse

What you need to know about Florida today

| 12/20/2017

› Taking a look at Japanese trains might help south Florida transportation
Brightline, America’s first privately owned passenger train line in three decades, is expected to work together with Tri-Rail trains, local buses, light rail, taxis, ride-share apps and whatever else is next. How could all that come together? Luckily, there’s an answer, and it begins on a Japanese bullet train.

› Florida's Attorney General alleges Broward County charity exploited families of firefighters, others
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has filed a civil complaint against a Pompano Beach charity for allegedly soliciting donations for firefighters and breast cancer research that instead went to other uses.

› Palm Beach County is first county in Florida to ban conversion therapy
Palm Beach County commissioners voted 5-2 Tuesday to ban conversion therapy for minors, becoming the first county in the state to approve such a ban.

› Lennar taps into active-adult lifestyle with homes near Tampa Bay’s second Crystal Lagoon
Americans are living longer and staying a lot more active than they used to. The nation’s home-building industry is eager to capitalize on that trend. Now Lennar, the nation’s largest homebuilder, is planning its first Tampa Bay active-adult homes in a new development in southern Hillsborough County.

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