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Thursday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Look at all the new stores opening in Largo, including Sprouts market
As thousands of new residents flock to Florida daily, new businesses continue to sprout up. In Largo, a new pickleball training facility, a Chipotle fast-casual eatery, a drive-thru Wawa and a Korean boba tea/donut shop have opened recently or are in the process of opening, while the new Horizon West Bay project and its surrounding commercial, retail, and residential elements is quickly taking shape.
› Seasonal lifeguard coverage in Cocoa Beach threatened in city-county funding dispute
The Spring Break holiday season is in full swing, and Cocoa Beach is awash with the sunburned faces of visitors. But there might be fewer lifeguards than had been expected looking out for those tourists, many of whom have little experience with the ocean and its power.
› Subsidies push stalls for long-awaited American Dream Mall
A legislative bid to potentially offer Miami-Dade County subsidies to get a long-stalled, multi-billion mega-project, the American Dream Mall, under way in Northwest Miami-Dade was swiftly sidetracked by a county committee last week. The legislation aims to remove the county’s self-imposed prohibition on subsidies for design or construction of the project, whose movement has been invisible to the public for several years.
› The feds were interested in a Tampa City Council computer. Why?
When FBI agents arrived early one morning last May to the pink, single-story home of Tampa City Council member Lynn Hurtak, they searched for phones, laptops and more. The agents sought devices used by her husband, Tim Burke, a nationally recognized media consultant subsequently indicted last month on charges related to alleged computer hacks of Fox News videos.
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