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Visit Florida gets one year lease on life
Florida’s tourism industry and the 140 employees at Visit Florida, the state’s tourism marketing agency, can breathe easier — at least for a few months. House and Senate budget negotiators agreed Monday evening to put $50 million toward Visit Florida next year, extending it until June 30, 2020. The public-private agency had been set to expire Oct. 1, and House Speaker Jose Oliva, no fan of corporate subsidies, appeared happy to let it fade away. More from the Orlando Sentinel and WPEC.
New Yorkers fleeing for Florida more than any other state
Florida last year had the most people in the U.S. move in from other states. It has New York to thank. New York contributed the most to Florida’s inflow of people, with 63,722 people moving from the Empire State to the Sunshine State between July 2017 and July 2018, the U.S. Census Bureau said Monday. [Source: Democrat and Chronicle]
Gov. Ron DeSantis signs vaping ban, police dog protection bills
Floridians will have to keep their e-cigarettes on the shelf while in most enclosed workplaces starting this summer, under one of 10 new laws signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The workplace ban on vapor-generating electronic devices (SB 7012), better known as “vaping,” implements part of a constitutional amendment that also asked voters to ban oil and gas drilling off Florida’s shorelines. [Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel]
Orlando Magic co-founder Pat Williams is retiring after more than 50 years in NBA
The legendary Pat Williams announced his official retirement from the Orlando Magic on Monday, but can you really ever retire from being the father and founder of a franchise? Yes, Williams announced his retirement as the Magic’s senior vice president on Monday, but he’ll always be the co-founder of the Magic and one of the most influential figures in Orlando sports history. [Source: Orlando Sentinel]
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Florida researchers find success breeding colorful aquarium fish
Researchers in Florida, helped by donations from SeaWorld and Busch Gardens, are behind a successful and growing effort to breed aquarium fish in captivity. Once almost impossible, captive breeding colorful reef fish is quickly growing in scope and variety at a University of Florida research station near Tampa and in a few other research facilities around the world. [Source: UPI]
ALSO AROUND FLORIDA:
› Commissioners want new leadership for Collier County's business accelerators
Economic Incubators Inc., the nonprofit tasked with operating the Naples and Immokalee accelerators, will lose control of the county accelerator program following longstanding questions about how the organization has spent its money, managed the program and delivered results.
› Miami is a finalist for an artificial intelligence hub, tech giant announces
Speaking at the keynote address kicking off the 2019 eMerge Americas technology conference at the Miami Beach convention center, Paulo Passoni, managing investment partner for Tokyo-based SoftBank, said Miami was among the finalist cities for a planned artificial intelligence hub it is seeking to locate in the Caribbean-Latin America region.
› Charting when the bottom fell out of Tampa Bay's housing market
The rise and fall and rise of the bay area housing market is dramatically reflected in figures released this month by ATTOM Data Solutions, a California-based firm that tracks sales and prices of more than 155 million U.S. properties. The data show just how frothy Tampa Bay's market was in the mid-2000s, how swiftly it tanked and how long it took to recover from one of the worst housing crashes ever.
› Angel investing just got a whole lot easier, thanks to one Florida startup
It’s no secret that there are many wealthy South Florida residents — including 30 billionaires at last count. So it shouldn’t be surprising that the region has given birth to a company that says it plans to update large-scale private investing (think companies, not stocks) for the 21st century.
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