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Thursday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Naples business networking group names 2019 officers
Naples Area Professional League of Executive Services — has elected its 2019 board of directors. The organization is a business-to-business networking group based in Southwest Florida with many of its members internationally recognized business leaders and experts within their fields.
› Alachua County buys forest between Gainesville, prairie
Serenola Forest, a 111-acre buffer between Williston Road and Paynes Prairie, has been purchased by Alachua County for $3.2 million largely from the Wild Places and Public Spaces sales tax approved by voters in 2016. The county and the Alachua Conservation Trust have been negotiating the deal for the land between the Oak Hammock retirement community and Idlywild Elementary School for more than a decade.
› Red tide: Bradenton legislator wants to bring back septic tank inspections
Following a series of devastating algae blooms that have fouled water bodies across Florida, a Bradenton lawmaker is reviving a proposal to inspect septic tanks to determine if they are failing and leaching algae-feeding pollution. Republican state Rep. Will Robinson filed HB 85 this week.
› 3 New F-35 Squadrons Proposed For Florida's Tyndall Air Force Base
Florida politicians are quickly giving support to a U.S. Air Force recommendation to use supplemental funds to eventually locate three squadrons of F-35 fighters at hurricane-ravaged Tyndall Air Force Base.
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