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For decades the answer to inexpensive, safe housing for older retired Floridians was found in mobile home communities. Yet with Florida’s growth and an increasing and longer-living senior population, for many, that once sure answer is wrong.

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The Florida Board of Education approved measures that will block undocumented students from attending state colleges and taking the General Educational Development test.
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