May 15, 2024

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What you need to know about Florida today

| 3/17/2023

› Tampa, Florida is one of Time Magazine’s World’s Greatest Places
Florida’s city du jour is eager to earn permanent status on travelers’ lists of sunny, accessible escapes worthy of a weekend stay, as a cutting-edge, multi-billion-dollar landmark development project redefines its downtown.

› Miami-Dade plans to plant more trees to help planet, low-income communities
Residents of all faiths, races, and income recently packed the pews at St. James Catholic Church in northwest Miami-Dade County, but not for a prayer service. They were all members of PACT: People Acting for Community Together, demanding county leaders move swiftly to protect Miami-Dade’s most vulnerable neighborhoods from the impending killer heat fueled by our ever-warming planet.

› Florida Agritourism Association plants the seeds for industry’s growth
What started as a mission to host her son’s wedding reception at her family’s farm in Plant City has become so much more for a Hillsborough County woman who today is chairwoman of the Florida Agritourism Association.

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