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What you need to know about Florida today
› Is Tesla planning a giga factory in Florida?
Elon Musk has talked about building giga factories in places that people want to be and doing so makes it easy to recruit employees who want to be there and will do a good job - because they already like where they are living. It's more difficult to get people to come to a location that they may not want to live in, in the first place.
› Interstate 4 traffic ranks among worst in U.S. as state seeks remedies
After a difficult and costly rebuild of Interstate 4 from south Orlando to north of Altamonte Springs, the road is plagued with some of the nation’s worst traffic dysfunction along its tourism corridor. Backups are status quo in the western nub of Osceola County where the tolled State Road 429 meets I-4 and at the interchange with U.S. Highway 27 in northeast Polk County. Stop and go has a relentless grip on I-4 where it passes Walt Disney World in south Orange County.
› Georgia-based candy shop known for homemade pralines, ice cream opens Sarasota location
River Street Sweets-Savannah's Candy Kitchen is bringing sugary handmade treats to Sarasota's St. Armands Circle. The 49-year-old company, based in Savannah, Georgia, is the largest manufacturer of pralines in the country and has 24 stores throughout the U.S. Jennifer Strickland and her brother, Tim Strickland, are owners of the popular enterprise.
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