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Everglades Foundation takes its NowOrNeverglades tour to Florida roads

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With algae blooms, the future health of the Everglades, $1.2 billion in state doc stamp tax money, an enormous reservoir project, entrenched sugar interests, a heretofore dormant Florida constitutional amendment, the united opinion of more than 200 scientists, and a recalcitrant — but changing — political environment, a lot is riding on the NowOrNeverglades bus touring Florida this month. The bus, a project of the Everglades Foundation, visited Orlando Thursday on the second day of its 12-day, 20-city tour of…

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Tickets on sale for 75th Annual Miss Florida Pageant

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Tickets are now on sale for the 75th Annual Miss Florida Pageant to be held July 7 to 10 at St. Petersburg’s beautiful Progress Energy Center for the Arts’ MahaffeyĀ  Theater. Preliminary pageants are July 7, 8 and 9 at 7:30 p.m., with the Miss Florida Pageant on Saturday, July 10, at 10 p.m. Tickets are available at www.mahaffeytheater.com. The Miss Florida Pageant, with the winner going on to the Miss America Competition, will also be telecast LIVE on CBS…

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