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• Tomato truce: U.S. and Mexico strike a deal on imports

  Mexico supplies more than half the fresh tomatoes sold in the U.S., and imports have more than doubled since 2002. Florida growers have long complained that Mexico unfairly subsidizes its tomato crop.

• Chances of a Florida recession are on the rise, chamber economist says

  The probability that Florida’s $1 trillion economy will lapse into recession has risen substantially since the spring, the chief economist for the Florida Chamber Foundation said Wednesday.

Tourism to Cuba plunges after tightening of travel ban

The sustained decline reverses a boom in arrivals and therefore the broader tourism industry in recent years following the U.S.-Cuban detente.

A Miami entrepreneur’s hospital empire collapsed - and left towns in the wreckage

Miami-based management company EmpowerHMS helped oversee a rural empire encompassing 18 hospitals across eight states. Now, 12 of the hospitals have entered bankruptcy and eight have closed their doors.

Florida agritourism introduces visitors to homegrown attractions

Agritourism combines Florida’s two biggest industries and casts a wide net of activities that include things like u-pick berry farms, bucolic wedding venues, family-owned wineries and corn mazes.

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