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Florida To Get A New $500 Million Hospital & "600 Or More High Paying Jobs With Benefits"
If you live in Florida, you know that the state's population is increasing. Florida reportedly gained 1,096,680 residents between the 2020 Census and April of 2023. More people means a greater need for services such as health care. And Floridians in Sunrise will be getting a new $500 million dollar hospital that will bring high-paying jobs with it.
Florida enacts tough law to get homeless off the streets, leaving cities and counties scrambling
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — As the sun rose Tuesday, Robert Robinson pulled himself from the sidewalk outside Fort Lauderdale’s bus depot. It’s where he’d slept — and become a violator of Florida’s newest law. Under a statute that took effect Tuesday, it is now illegal in Florida to sleep on sidewalks, in parks, on beaches or in other public spaces — one of the strictest anti-homelessness measures in the nation. “Where are they going to put all these people?” Robinson asked, pointing to several other homeless persons nearby. The 61-year-old former fence installer gathered his few clothes, toothpaste and a case of cat food he hoped to sell for $2 and loaded them onto the wheelchair he uses as a walker and wagon. “There aren’t enough bed spaces at the shelter.” Fort Lauderdale and Florida’s other cities and counties only have three months to figure it out. Starting Jan. 1, residents, business owners and the state can sue municipalities they don’t think are doing enough. Under the law, local governments must enact ordinances to create, bolster and enforce programs to help get the homeless off the streets.
Ballots in the mail for presidential election. Floridians can begin voting immediately.
Voters who are among the 96% of Floridians that the polls show have made up their minds between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump can start voting. It’s already begun for more than 400,000 people in Broward and Palm Beach counties who’ve requested vote-by-mail ballots. On Tuesday — exactly five weeks before Election Day, Nov. 5 — Broward County sent out 241,000 ...
Why are Big Lots stores closing in 2024? More Florida stores to shutter
Over the summer, Big Lots announced that it would be closing up to 40 of its stores across the country. That number jumped up into the hundreds only a little while later, when the retailer added even more stores to the list in August. “In 2024, the U.S. economy has continued to face macroeconomic challenges, including elevated inflation, which has adversely impacted the buying power of our customers,” the financial disclosure from Big Lots said. ...
Former Miami police officer pays it forward with his McDonald's restaurants
MIAMI - Emilio Cabrera owns 18 McDonald's franchises in South Florida. From Hollywood to Sunny Isles, his Mickey D's have been serving up Big Macs and Happy Meals for the past 43 years. Cabrera has a soft spot for law enforcement. He retired from the Miami police department as a lieutenant. Late in his career, an assignment to solve robberies at local McDonald's restaurants changed his life. Cabrera said a gang of robbers was targeting local McDonald's. Since he was in the robbery unit, he was assigned to a robbery detail at one of the restaurants. "We didn't know where...
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