Florida Business News

• Florida lawmakers face huge COVID-19 fallout as session convenes

  When Florida lawmakers ended their last session, the COVID-19 pandemic was just getting started. Nearly a year later, lawmakers will return Tuesday for a 60-day session to deal with the fallout.

• Florida Trend Business Beat - Week of 2/26

  Check out the top news-to-know with Florida Trend's brand new, headline-focused video news brief, hosted by digital content specialist Aimée Alexander.

• UK variant of COVID is overtaking Florida. Can vaccines stymie it or is surge coming?

  The more-infectious “U.K. variant” continues to out-compete other strains of the COVID virus in Florida, causing about 15% to 20% of infections.

• JTA ready to 'flip the switch' on adding New Town for free rides to grocery stores

  The Door To Store program that delivers free rides from some Northwest Jacksonville neighborhoods to grocery stores is ready for expansion into the New Town neighborhood, the Jacksonville Transportation Authority said.

• Levine Cava enlists SoftBank’s Claure, former Miami Beach mayor for new economic program

  Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced a new economic development initiative Thursday to boost the county’s economy as it begins to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.

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