April 24, 2024

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What you need to know about Florida today

| 3/19/2018

› Roofing businesses skyrocket after Irma: Avoiding the bad players
Hurricane Irma last October wasn't kind to many roofs throughout the Space Coast and that's still keeping many area roofers busy these days. Extremely busy.

› Voters want taller buildings for Key West affordable housing. Here’s what happens next
Key West voters did what Mayor Craig Cates wanted them to do in last week’s referendum: Approve a measure to raise the allowable building height on a Stock Island property up to 40 feet. So now what?

› Six months after Maria, transplanted Puerto Ricans struggle to put down roots in Central Florida
With the region already suffering an affordable housing crisis well before the storm, the transition has been a rocky one, even for the many people who have found jobs.

› Pasco officials say CareerSource Tampa Bay blocked county from federal funds with ‘unethical’ grant application
Edward Peachey, president and CEO of CareerSource Tampa Bay, helped his agency win a $3.8 million federal grant in 2016. The agency's application said the grant would serve five other area counties. Officials in those counties did not know the application listed the other areas.

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