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Lawmakers say they want to fix Florida’s elections — but they’re not sure how
What went wrong in Florida’s 2018 midterm election? How can it be fixed? Those questions loom over Florida’s lawmakers as they deal with the aftermath of the most contentious, and litigious, election since 2000. There appears to be bipartisan consensus to do something over the next four months. But what, exactly, is unclear. More from the Miami Herald and the Tampa Bay Times.
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Duncan McClellan is a ‘Florida Icon'
Glass artist Duncan McClellan tells us: "Business was ingrained in me at an early age. When I was a kid, I’d save my money and when we’d go on a family trip to New York, I’d buy fireworks, take them home to Florida — where you couldn’t get fireworks then — and sell them for triple the price." Read the full Florida Icon piece here.
The FAA wants to merge Florida’s flight paths. Will your neighborhood hear it coming?
A proposed change to the flight paths above South Florida could turn the local airspace into a sky-high Interstate 95, according to critics of the Federal Aviation Administration’s plan to consolidate current flight paths into narrower and more concentrated bands of traffic. [Source: Miami Herald]
Florida Supreme Court: Police can use "stand your ground" defense
Siding with a Broward County sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot a man, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled that law-enforcement officers can use the state’s “stand your ground” self-defense law to be shielded from prosecution. See the ruling from the Florida Supreme Court and read more from CBS Miami and the AP.
Record-setting 5.9 million Floridians to travel for holidays
A record-setting 5.9 million Floridians will travel 50 miles or more for the final holidays of the year - the most since AAA began tracking holiday travel in 2001. The upward trend is the same, on a national scale. Nearly 112.5 million Americans will take at least one holiday trip. More from WJXT and the Orlando Sentinel.
Turning surgical waste into green profits
Healthcare supply rebel WestCMR has transformed the surplus surgical supply marketplace. In turn, the company is empowering hospitals and surgery centers on both sides of the equation to improve their procurement practices. [Read the full sponsored report here]
ALSO AROUND FLORIDA:
› Tallahassee abuzz after Maddox, Carter-Smith indictments
Less than 24 hours after an indictment dropped naming City Commissioner Scott Maddox and political consultant Paige Carter-Smith, Tallahassee city leaders met for their regularly scheduled Community Redevelopment Agency meeting.
› Sears distribution center in Jacksonville closing
Sears is closing a Northside Jacksonville distribution center that employed a generation of warehouse and distribution workers. A spokesman said that the number of workers affected “is not available,” but a listing of large employers from a branch of the JAX Chamber counted 450 jobs at that address.
› UF partners with Telemundo to develop bilingual reporters
With a pilot program generating success, Telemundo Station group decided last week to launch its university training program with both UF and the University of Texas-San Antonio, two schools that feature a diverse pool of talented, multimedia bilingual journalists.
› Virgin Galactic touches space — and a UCF experiment was onboard for the ride
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic completed a monumental test flight Thursday — and the University of Central Florida got a slice of the glory. Its experiment was one of four NASA-supported technologies part of the flight to space.
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