Jim Turner - News Service of Florida
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The state next week will start a tax "holiday" that will allow back-to-school shoppers to avoid paying sales taxes on items such as clothes, school supplies and laptops.
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The program offers inspections and grants up to $10,000 to help residents upgrade homes and qualify for property-insurance discounts for residences valued up to $700,000.
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They added two named storms and a major hurricane to their outlook, primarily because of near-record warm Atlantic and Caribbean waters and a lack of strong vertical wind shear.
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They filed the federal lawsuit after around 215 million gallons of wastewater was discharged into Tampa Bay in 2021. It said the discharges caused harmful algae blooms and fish kills.
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With one leader saying it is on the "brink of disaster," Florida's citrus industry is nearing the end of the 2023-2024 growing season showing relatively little growth from the previous hurricane-marred season.
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Florida is moving forward with plans to buy and retrofit a massive warehouse in Auburndale as a staging area to respond to hurricanes and other emergencies.
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The 16 pages of cuts ranged from as little as $10,500 for a county public works generator to $80 million for group insurance for the state college system.
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Candidates have until Friday to file paperwork at the state Division of Elections to qualify for the 2024 legislative elections.
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John Morgan has already cut a series of commercials to support Amendment 3. But don’t expect him to pump millions of his own dollars into the campaign as he did for the medical marijuana amendment.
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They come after NOAA issued an updated forecast that calls for up to 25 named storms, largely due to warmer ocean waters.