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A.H. Monroe, a nonprofit that provides health and housing resources for Florida Keys residents, is teaming up with Queer Keys, a new nonprofit that opened the Keys' only LGBTQ+ resource center in October. One of their goals is to better serve senior citizens.
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The new 118-page package would fund the government at current levels through March and adds $100 billion in disaster aid and $10 billion in agricultural assistance to farmers. All 9 South Florida lawmakers voted in favor of bill.
FLORIDA NEWS
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The federal Environmental Protection Agency Friday approved a test project using a toxic byproduct of phosphate mining for road beds.
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At an elementary school in Miami Gardens where a large part of the student population is ESE, the annual winter celebration is an activity to foster socialization and bridge exceptional and general education.
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The state's growth rate of 2% was the second highest in the country, behind the District of Columbia. The increase in population was due to international migration and population increases in the South.
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