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What you need to know about Florida today
› Miami gives early go-ahead for Formula One grand prix
Miami’s city commissioners have voted unanimously to enter formal negotiations with Formula One to host a race as early as next year. The vote Thursday allows Miami officials to work out a contract with F1 that could be voted on later this summer.
› Sugar policy reform: Will Florida lawmakers fight Modernization Act, Zero-to-Zero?
Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio led the charge to stop sugar policy reform in 2014. Once again, there's mounting pressure to change the sugar policy, and once again, the senators are expected to fight it as Congress renegotiates the Farm Bill soon.
› The Wave is dead: $33.7 million later, no streetcars for Fort Lauderdale
The last flicker of hope for proponents of Fort Lauderdale’s Wave streetcar system went out Thursday when the two bids to build the 2.8-mile downtown rail line were rejected because the price was too high.
› Background check gap could allow Florida mentally ill to buy guns
In Florida, a state with some of the nation’s worst mass shootings in recent years, nearly 20 percent of mental health records are entered late into a background check database, a long-running problem state law enforcement officials now acknowledge could lead to someone with a known mental illness buying a gun.
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