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Thursday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› SeaWorld adds five new pools to help save more of Florida's starving, cold manatees
As cold, starving manatees languish in the Indian River Lagoon, SeaWorld has been the only critical care facility that can take them in. But the Orlando theme park is running out of pool space for the threatened species. So this week, they're building five new 40-by-20-foot rehab aluminum-sided pools, which will allow them to take in another 20 sea cows beyond the current capacity of 30 manatees.
› Progressive stops renewing some home policies in Florida as lawmakers target roof claims
Progressive Insurance is shedding roughly 56,000 policies on Florida homes with roofs older than 15 years, putting the squeeze on homeowners who are already finding it difficult or expensive to insure their houses. It’s the latest sign of trouble in Florida’s turbulent property insurance market.
› $12.2 million in Jacksonville Transportation Authority facility, ferry improvements nearly complete
The Jacksonville Transportation Authority has four major infrastructure and improvement projects in various stages of completion budgeted at a combined total of approximately $12.2 million. The projects range from renovations, repairs and upgrades to JTA's Myrtle Avenue Operations Campus in downtown Jacksonville to the St. Johns River Ferry facilities at the Mayport and Fort George slips. Although not glamorous, the work is deemed essential to meet the city's current and future mass transit needs.
› Massive machine begins trip from Port Manatee to Texas
The Air Products facility in Port Manatee hosted a moving party of sorts Feb. 4. That’s when a Liquefied Natural Gas Heat Exchanger assembled in its facility officially hit the road, heading to Sabine Pass in Port Arthur, Texas. It’s one of three identical exchangers Air Products is providing, with the next one scheduled to leave Port Manatee in March.
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