April 29, 2024

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| 5/7/2020

› South Florida cities will lose money due to COVID-19. They can only guess how much
Miami-Dade County may be inching toward reopening its economy, but no one knows when it will return to any semblance of normalcy. For the local officials overseeing municipal budgets, that’s a tricky place to be: There will surely be revenue shortfalls, many say, but it’s almost impossible to predict just how much will be lost.

› Inter Miami CF players return to training facility for individual workouts
Inter Miami CF players didn’t waste time in getting back to the practice fields. After Major League Soccer announced last week that players may start to use clubs’ outdoor training fields for voluntary individual workouts, multiple Inter Miami players arrived at the club’s new Fort Lauderdale training facility for a workout Wednesday morning for the first time in nearly two months.

› Photos: Jacksonville residents line up to get $1000 debit cards from city
Hundreds of Jacksonville residents lined up in waves Monday morning, May 4, 2020, outside the downtown main library according to their hour appointment block to pick up their $1,000 debit card from the City of Jacksonville. On the first day, 1,544 stimulus payments were given out.

› Federal court bans Bradenton ‘church’ from selling bleach as miracle COVID-19 cure
A Bradenton organization that peddles drinking industrial-grade bleach as a cure for 95 percent of the world’s known illnesses, including HIV/AIDS, autism, Alzheimer’s, leukemia, and most recently, COVID-19, was openly defiant after a federal court issued a temporary restraining order on the sale of its products.

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