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What you need to know about Florida today
› Hear from Marlins, Fisher Island and EEOC leaders about post-COVID labor issues
Executives from the Miami Marlins, Fisher Island Club, and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission all feature in a new 2.5-hour video produced by Miami law firm Stearns Weaver Miller exploring post-pandemic employment issues. In lieu of its usual annual conference, the firm has produced a video in which its executives interview top human resources experts about employee management concerns as the COVID-19 pandemic fades and workers return to the office.
› Pair of builders chosen for $60 million downtown Naples theater project
A pair of construction firms, one based in the region, one national, has been chosen to build the Gulfshore Playhouse Theatre — a large part of a $60 million project. The partners building the project are Bonita Springs-based Gates Construction and Providence, Rhode Island-based Gilbane. H3-Arquitectonica is providing design services.
› 'Forgotten' Brevard civil rights heroes endure in new film by Mario Van Peebles
The "forgotten heroes" of the civil rights movement may not remain forgotten for much longer. Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore were among the first Black civil rights activists, laboring for equality in segregated Florida decades before Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King, Jr. Harry Moore, a school principal, established branches of the NAACP across the state and helped register more than 100,000 new Black voters, forming one of the largest "colored" voting blocs in the south.
› 250 gators removed from Disney properties since 2-year-old’s 2016 death
About 250 alligators have been removed from Disney properties since an alligator killed 2-year-old Lane Thomas Graves from the shores of Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa five years ago. Disney management and staff have worked directly with trappers contracted through the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to remove them.
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