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FDLE head Mark Glass presents emergency rule during Florida Cabinet meeting on September 11, 2026.
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First mailings of vote-by-mail ballots to domestic voters for Nov. 3 general election start to go out
WGCU Staff
Mailing of requested Vote-by-Mail ballots to domestic voters started to go out today, September 24, for the upcoming General Election.
The invasive pasture mealybug has mainly impacted limpograss pastures and sugarcane, but it can affect any other grass species, including forages, agronomic crops, turf, and weeds.
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Environment
DeSantis updates emergency order as invasive pasture mealybug spreads across Florida fields, threatening crops, animal pastures, and lawns
WGCU Staff, Jessica Meszaros/WUSF
The Sanibel Lighthouse survived Hurricane Ian and several others in the decades before that storm, but time will tell how well the plan for the city's future will fare compared to the one written decades before it
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Sanibel seeks residents' input in updating growth plan written in 1970s
Tom Bayles
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