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Wal-Mart awards $580K to 14 Florida nonprofits

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Wal-Mart announced Thursday that 14 Florida nonprofits will get a combined $580,000 in grants from the retailer. The grants ranged from $25,000 to $90,000 for each organization for projects ranging from an all-access playground i wall n Brevard County to a STEM education program in Naples. The list also included bay-area nonprofit Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay, which will get a $25,000 grant for a nutrition program for its low- to moderate-income participants. Wal-Mart’s North Florida regional general manager Jeff…

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Rick Scott touts 1,000 new jobs from manufacturing expansion in Brevard

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Gov. Rick Scott announced a battery manufacturing company will expand its Brevard County operations by adding 1,000 jobs and making $270 million in capital investments. “Oakridge Global Energy Solutions could have moved their headquarters anywhere in the world and I am proud to announce that they chose to remain in Florida and create 1,000 new jobs,” Scott said in the announcement. The company, which currently employs 36 Floridians, moved its headquarters from a 12,000-square-foot facility to a 68,718-square-foot facility in…

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Amid legislative turnover, new House candidates reach for safe GOP seats

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As ever in the term limits era, the makeup of the Republican House majority is set to shift in terms of personnel, if not necessarily in degree of dominance. As the very House-inflected state Rep. Matt Gaetz seeks to take over his father state Sen. Don Gaetz‘s spot in the Legislature’s upper chamber, a Walton County commissioner has filed to replace him in his deeply conservative District 4 seat. Commissioner Wayne Harris filed paperwork to run on June 10, according to the Florida Division of Elections.…

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Bill doesn’t lift prohibition on plastic bag bans but does allow pilot programs

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A pilot program is a small step — but it is a step forward nonetheless, critics of disposable plastic shopping bags said Wednesday. A Senate committee on Wednesday approved a bill that allows coastal communities to create a 2-1/2-year pilot program to regulate or ban plastic bags. Critics say plastic bags become litter that choke waterways and often are eaten by sea turtles and other marine life because they look like jellyfish. California enacted a statewide ban in 2014. But…

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Gov. Scott announces 10 state board appointments

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On Friday, Gov. Rick Scott announced 10 appointments – including four reappointments – to a variety of state regulatory boards. Board of Professional Geologists Scott announced the appointments of Norman Meeks and Stanley Warden to the Board of Professional Geologists, responsible for licensing and regulating the practice of professional geology. Both are for terms ending October 31, 2017. Meeks, 46, of Valrico, is a geologist with CRA Inc. He succeeds Mervin Dale. Warden, 53, of Tallahassee, is a contract manager…

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