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What you need to know about Florida today
› Fort Lauderdale may crack down on e-scooter speed
Those cool little electric scooters can zip along at speeds up to 30 miles per hour. That speed would be capped at 15 mph under new safety rules being considered by Fort Lauderdale. Commissioners are expected to discuss speed caps and a slew of other recommendations from staff after a series of scooter-related accidents and one death.
› Demonstrators speak out against ‘dark money’ in Venice elections
Saying they were fed up with the appearance of mailers from a Tallahassee-based political action committee attempting to influence city of Venice elections, more than three dozen people gathered at Venice City Hall Monday afternoon and marched across Harbor Drive, chanting “No dark money,” and paraded around the Venice offices of accountant Eric Robinson to protest the activities of the Sunshine State Freedom Fund.
› Florida Supreme Court to review insurance payment dispute, allows respondent reply extension
A party to a Florida Supreme Court review of a dispute over insurance reimbursement payments must file a reply to the petitioner in less than two weeks. The Supreme Court granted the petitioner, State Farm Mutual Automobile Association, an extension to file an answer to the MRI Associates of Tampa argument that an appeals panel "erroneously concluded" the insurance company was correct in its reimbursement calculations for magnetic resonance imaging of 19 people injured in vehicle accidents.
› Reports: Fastest growing cities are in Florida, Texas and Western states
The fastest growing cities in the country are in the South and West, according to new data released by the Census Bureau. Cities in the South and West held 14 of the 15 cities with the largest population gains in 2018. “The South and West currently seem to be attractive places to move,” Adam McCann, financial writer at WalletHub, writes.
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