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Tuesday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› 200 more Outback and Carrabba’s locations will soon deliver
Bloomin’ Brands plans to add delivery at 200 more Carrabba’s Italian Grill and Outback Steakhouse locations, CEO Liz Smith said during her company’s second-quarter earnings call on Monday.
› Miami-Dade is almost ready to buy its first electric buses. Enter the lobbyists
Miami-Dade County wants to create a new fleet of modern electric buses, but the act of purchasing the quiet and smog-free vehicles seems to be skidding into an old-fashioned procurement fight.
› Sore knuckles much? Florida GOP knocks on 1 million doors
While Democrats continue to hope for a “blue wave” come November, the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) is hoping its ground game can hold off the rising tide. The party announced it has knocked on its 1 millionth door of the 2018 midterm cycle.
› Striving to save Florida’s struggling citrus industry with GMOs
Scientists are making progress toward breeding new citrus trees that better tolerate infection by the fatal bacterial disease citrus greening. The most promising avenue toward infection resistance, if not immunity, lies with transgenics, the science of manipulating a tree’s genes at the molecular level.
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» Video below shows Dr. Ed Stover, a plant breeder at the USDA Horticultural Research Laboratory in Fort Pierce, disccussing the latest advancements in breeding new citrus varieties that are tolerant or resistant to the bacterial disease citrus greening.
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