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• Florida representatives Stephanie Murphy, Michael Waltz, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, and Matt Gaetz called on the FBI to declassify information about which counties were affected.
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• Demings said the money collected from a sales tax referendum would help pay for more buses, trains, and pedestrian walkways. He also called on county employees to make a minimum wage of $15 dollars an hour by 2021.
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• The St. Johns River Water Management District collaborated with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to remove more than 600,000 cubic yards of muck from the Indian River Lagoon. Muck is a result of untreated storm-water runoff, that flows into the canals and tributaries of the lagoon. It kills sea-grasses and organisms that are vital to the lagoon’s ecosystem. The state is currently working on a broader restoration plan with long-term funding sources for the entire Indian River Lagoon and its tributaries.
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• Steve Schneider’s play “Black Wood” premieres next weekend at the Orlando Fringe Festival.
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• With just three games left to play, the Orlando Magic are in the midst of a playoff hunt, and could have a guaranteed spot as soon as Sunday.
But that would require the Magic to win their next two games, starting with a home matchup against the Atlanta Hawks tonight.
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• Orlando’s affordable housing crisis has just imploded, in case you were wondering. Last year a 2018 report ranked the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford area second in the country for having the most severe affordable housing shortage, offering only 17 available and affordable units for every 100 extremely low-income renters. It is now worse. The Orlando metro area currently has only 13 affordable and available units for every 100 extremely low-income households, making it the most severe affordable housing shortage in the country, according to a report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition. The report also found that Florida ranks first among states where low-income renter households are severely cost-burdened, with 80 percent of households spending half their income on rent or mortgage rather than food …
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• Political and religious leaders, members of the Muslim community, and allies joined together in Orlando Saturday for a vigil for the victims of the Christchurch shooting.
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• State Representative Anna Eskamani, along with her sister, Ida recorded the story of their sisterhood on the 15th anniversary of their mother’s death from cancer.
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• A fifteen-year-old Boone High School student was shot and killed on Waldo Street and East Kaley Avenue.
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• Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer will give his annual State of Downtown address at the Amway Center tomorrow. The address will focus on Parramore.
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