May 19, 2024

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What you need to know about Florida today

| 5/26/2016

› Why did cutting edge businesses like Shipt, Drizly and Carvana choose Tampa Bay?
In choosing Tampa Bay and other mid-sized metros in the Southeast, the companies largely eschewed more high-profile areas known for a tech-driven youth culture with money to burn.

› Sin tax in the Keys could raise $10 million for poor and disabled
A local sales tax on alcohol and tobacco products could save nonprofit agencies that provide services to the working poor and medically disabled in the Florida Keys. A so-called sin tax could generate $10 million annually for a proposed Keys Human Services Trust, advocates said this week.

› State education not perfect but not crisis, judge says
A circuit judge ruled in favor of the Florida State Board of Education in a lawsuit challenging the state’s commitment to public education.

› Will tech-drive ag make it easier to protect state water?
Jobs today. Jobs tomorrow. Jobs 10 years from now. That's what the Palm Beach International Agricultural Summit, which filled the Palm Beach County Convention Center early this month, was all about.

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