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• WUFT Information: 988 hotline, one yr later: psychological well being professionals discuss positives and pitfalls. “Erin Brooker Lozott has labored within the discipline of autism and psychological well being for 29 years. She solutions calls from folks in disaster on daily basis. However she by no means anticipated the decision to return from somebody in her circle of relatives.”
• Mainstreet Day by day Information: ACSO arrests organizer of Lake Butler pop-up social gathering. “Lots of the people on the social gathering had been allegedly intoxicated, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, in possession of unlawful substances, driving beneath the affect, affray, discharging a firearm and battery on others. One of many people allegedly dedicated aggravated battery with severe bodily harm, was arrested and stays within the Union County Jail.”
• WCJB: GRU asks for fee will increase to pay money owed. “On Wednesday, officers will give their fiscal yr 2024 finances presentation. They are saying the speed will increase are a part of the utility’s plan to change into extra financially steady.”
• Mainstreet Day by day Information: GNV’s Chestnut appointed to nationwide committee. “Gainesville Commissioner Cynthia Chestnut will serve for a yr on a Nationwide League of Cities (NLC) committee, offering route for the group’s federal advocacy on matters like housing, land use, financial alternative and entrepreneurship.”
• Ocala Star-Banner ($): State clears deputies in deadly capturing. Man’s household’s lawyer says pressure was extreme. “Chief Assistant State Lawyer Walter Forgie wrote in his report: ‘The usage of lethal pressure by these deputies was affordable, and due to this fact lawful, beneath these circumstances.’”
• Information Service of Florida: Supreme Court docket denies insurer’s attraction in Marion County blood “pollutant” dispute. “The Florida Supreme Court docket on Monday refused to take up a property insurer’s attraction in a dispute about whether or not blood must be thought-about a pollutant beneath a householders’ coverage.”
• Florida Politics: College of Florida AI instruction rolling out to extra public faculties this yr. “The UF-designed AI schooling program was piloted final yr in three faculty districts. UF is increasing this system to 12 districts starting this month.”
• Gainesville Solar ($): Even college students want a spot to decompress. This center faculty’s calm room has that coated. “A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Tuesday morning at Fort Clarke Center Faculty in Alachua County to provoke the opening of a ‘calm room’ within the faculty’s library. Its goal: To present college students an setting to deal with their feelings, irrespective of the trigger.”
• Related Press: DeSantis replaces his marketing campaign supervisor as he resets his faltering 2024 presidential bid. “The adjustments come after DeSantis made two large employees cuts up to now few weeks, shedding a few third of his employees in late July because the marketing campaign confronted monetary bother.”
• WMFE-Orlando: Specialists warn extra AP programs might be banned in Florida. “AP African American Historical past has been banned outright in Florida, and for a couple of days final week, AP Psych was additionally banned within the state over its themes of gender identification and sexuality.”
• WLRN-Miami: Expanded ‘Don’t Say Homosexual’ regulation stays contentious as new faculty yr begins. “As academics and college students return this month to high school, the expanded regulation critics name “Don’t Say Homosexual” and the brand new Florida Board of Training guidelines — from limits on dialogue of gender and sexual orientation and use of most popular pronouns — proceed elevating considerations about its potential hurt to the general public schooling system whereas profitable reward amongst its proponents, together with Gov. Ron DeSantis.”
• Related Press: Decide denies a request to dam a Florida regulation making it against the law to drive folks within the US illegally. “The choose stated Gov. Ron DeSantis and different defendants who embody prosecutors from throughout Florida hadn’t been correctly given discover in regards to the movement. The choose stated the civil rights teams might file the request once more.”
• WUSF-Tampa: Our Altering State: imagining a future for Florida’s transportation wants. “You may see the indicators of our rising inhabitants simply by taking a drive wherever in Florida. Whether or not it’s a commute that takes twice so long as it did a couple of years in the past, the irritating seek for parking, or the chaos round street expansions, the straightforward reality is extra folks means extra automobiles on the street.”
• WMFE-Orlando: Orange County considers giving Common a district of its personal for its Epic Universe. “Amid controversy over Disney World’s particular district, Common Studios is asking the Orange County Fee for a district of its personal.”
• WGCU-Fort Myers: Lee district unveils program to trace college students through faculty buses. “A card-scanning program known as Pupil Ridership begins with the brand new faculty yr this week. It can enable dad and mom and faculty officers to see when and the place a pupil will get on or off a bus.”
• WMFE-Orlando: Central Florida Seen and Heard: Immigration Divides The Financial system. “Many companies in Florida are navigating murky waters as they struggle to determine the state’s new immigration legal guidelines. WMFE’s Talia Blake continues our sequence Central Florida Seen and Heard: Immigration Divide with a have a look at the price to companies and undocumented employees.”
• Nationwide: Uvalde shooter’s cousin arrested in San Antonio for threatening to shoot a faculty
• World: U.S. continues to push for a diplomatic decision in Niger
• Well being: A brand new clue to the rationale some folks come down with lengthy COVID
• Nationwide: He was a high church official who criticized Trump. He says Christianity is in disaster
• Nationwide: Being in-between jobs is regular. Right here’s methods to discuss it
• World: The saga of Hong Kong’s protest anthem, which authorities are attempting to ban
• Media: ‘Barbie’ is the one billion-dollar blockbuster solely directed by a lady
• Tradition: The Visible Results employees behind Marvel’s film magic vote to unionize
