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What you need to know about Florida today
› Amendment 4 could influence 2020, but not in the way you think.
For only the second time in decades, Florida added more voters in a non-election year, growing the active voter roll by 2 percent, up about 265,000 in 2019. With less than a year until the 2020 presidential elections, neither Republicans nor Democrats appear to have gained an advantage among new voters, but in down-ballot races, those voters could prove crucial in efforts to flip legislative and local elections.
› He donated Olympia Theater to Miami decades ago. Now his family wants it back.
On New Year’s Eve, the heirs of late philanthropist Maurice Gusman will face off in court against the city of Miami. At stake: the future of the historic Olympia Theater on Flagler Street. Gusman donated the theater to the city in 1975, when it became the Olympia Center at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts.
› Virgin Trains gets 90 more days for talks over Orlando-Tampa rail service
Virgin Trains was granted another extension for negotiations over locating railroad track along public roads between Orlando and Tampa but the state “cannot indefinitely offer a lease opportunity in the Interstate 4 corridor,” transportation officials said.
› Tampa chef Rosana Rivera figured out how to ‘Beat Bobby Flay’
Score one for Tampa, and Puerto Ricans everywhere, chef Rosana Rivera said while reflecting on her victory. Rivera, who co-founded Xilo at the Hall on Franklin with partner Ricardo Castro, kept a secret for months after traveling to the Food Network’s New York television studios. She could finally celebrate her appearance on the competition series Beat Bobby Flay.
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