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Friday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Manatee Millennials discuss affordable housing and development
The Manatee Millennials Movement, also called M3, held its monthly meeting Wednesday covering progress on projects the group has taken on, including promoting affordable housing in Manatee County. M3 works under Manatee County Neighborhood Services, bringing together young county workers to develop leaders across departments to participate in improving the community.
› Democrats fear Trump, Republicans are making inroads with Hispanic voters in Florida
When Donald Trump’s campaign manager said in Miami recently that he planned to launch a national Hispanic outreach effort in Florida, Democrats took notice. The state’s 2.2 million Hispanic voters make up an outsized portion of Florida’s electorate, and nearly two-thirds voted in 2016 for Hillary Clinton.
› Magic Leap sues former employee who launched own wearable computer glasses
The Plantation business, which has raised more than $2 billion from investors, has sued former employee Chi Xu, who founded a Chinese company known as Nreal. Magic Leap alleges in the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California, that Chi Xu is exploiting Magic Leap’s “confidential and proprietary” information in development of its own wearable computer glasses.
› Miami kicked Ultra out of Bayfront Park. Now the city may bring the festival back.
In the telenovela of Miami politics, the relationship between City Hall and Ultra Music Festival might be one of its greatest on-again, off-again romances. Just when it looked like that union might be permanently broken, Miami’s politicians and administrators might try to patch things up: Commissioners on June 27 will consider bringing the three-day electronic dance music event back to its longtime home at Bayfront Park.
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