April 25, 2024

Tuesday's Daily Pulse

What you need to know about Florida today

| 11/7/2017

› Florida gas prices could rise this week
Gas prices never fell back to pre-hurricane levels despite declining for 47 straight days after Irma and Harvey, and now they’re headed up again. But the reversal might be short-lived, AAA said in its weekly gas-price update.

› Sarasota vocational training center celebrates grand opening
Vincent Academy, a new Sarasota vocational training center for adults with mental health challenges, which has been running on a limited schedule since a “soft opening” in June, will celebrate its official grand opening Thursday as it moves into full-scale operation.

› Intertwined therapy disciplines come together at Spring Hill business
Rehability, a one-stop shop at which patients can avail themselves of each of the intertwined disciplines, launched in May, fulmination of a long-range plan of Art and Desiree Gagne, husband and wife, orthotist-prostheticist and physical-occupational therapist, respectively.

› Why is parking in Miami so expensive — and such a hassle?
It might be a hassle. But parking is also a mammoth business that generates $29 billion in revenue in the U.S. And as South Florida’s population swells and its urban landscape gets denser, parking is playing an increasingly important role in the region’s fabric.

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