Florida's building ports, airports. But will it be enough?

Florida's four large-hub airports and five major seaports are undergoing billions of dollars in renovations and construction, but some experts says Florida will have to adapt to even further increases in demand to remain competitive. Tourism is the state's biggest industry. [Source: AP]

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Florida Law: Fighting words

Does the First Amendment protect anonymous online speech if it's not true? Tampa attorney Deborah L. Thomson aims to find out. She herself has been the target of what she claims is an untrue anonymous posting. [Source: Florida Trend]

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Cash crunch hurts Florida’s law enforcement

Florida's law enforcement agencies are struggling under the weight of more demands on their time and not enough money to keep pace. The burden, which has gotten worse the past few years, is having a widespread impact on solving crimes as well as protecting law enforcement officers and the public. [Source: Times/Herald]

Embattled citrus growers have hope for 3 bacteria killers

For the first time in years, Florida citrus growers are juiced at the prospect of getting a new defense against citrus greening, the bacterial disease slowly killing their trees, perhaps as early as spring. [Source: AP]

Commercial drone operators fear amateurs could provoke harsher regulations

Those multi-propeller drones buzzing through the airways these days are irritating airline pilots, who know how dangerous they can be to aircraft. Now commercial drone operators are irritated, too. [Source: Florida Times-Union]

ALSO AROUND FLORIDA:

› Trial will be held on new Florida congressional districts [AP]
A judge is set to hold a trial later this month to sort out the jumbled mess in Florida's political landscape over the mapping of state congressional districts.

› Uber fight growing fast and furious in Florida [Palm Beach Post]
Taxi companies from Broward County and Tallahassee twice sued the state over its handling of Uber and Lyft last week, while Gov. Rick Scott went on record Wednesday as agreeing with several South Florida legislators that uniform statewide rules are needed.

› Bezos visit to give Cape a Blue streak [Florida Today]
On Tuesday,Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos will visit Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to make his highest-profile announcement yet about how he hopes to redefine human spaceflight, radically reducing its cost so many more people can experience the cosmos.

› Orlando attractions becoming hot spots for elaborate proposals [Orlando Sentinel]
There's nothing wrong with proposing at a fancy restaurant over a bottle of nice champagne, but that special moment is a little bigger when Ed Sheeran stops a sold-out concert at the Amway Center to get involved.

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› Hialeah poker tournament under investigation [South Florida Sun-Sentinel]
The state is investigating Hialeah Park after the racetrack casino hosted its biggest poker tournament ever. The event was a $250 buy-in tournament Aug. 25-30 with $200,000 in guaranteed prize money.

› Miami is an arts mecca today, but it all started in the 1980s [Miami Herald]
Only one generation ago, Miami was widely derided as a cultural wasteland. The dynamic creative scene that has become such an integral part of Miami’s character was created in an extraordinary —and extraordinarily unlikely — burst of cultural energy in the 1980s.

› Rise in student loan defaults driven by for-profit colleges, study says [Orlando Sentinel]
The recent rise in student loan defaults has been driven mostly by the increase in those attending at for-profit colleges who left school in a tough economy with debt that outstripped their earnings potential, a new study has found.

› Florida sued once again over handling of public records [AP]
Two telecommunications companies contend in a new lawsuit that the administration of Gov. Rick Scott is flouting the state's public records law.