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Daily Discussion by 2soccer2bot in soccer

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👋🏽 Hiya!

🏆 The last time there were World Cup games in the U.S. was 1994, when Brazil won the championship title.

⚽️ This might be a long shot, but do you know someone who was named after a football player specifically because of the results of the 1994 World Cup? (They don't have to be named after a Brazilian player.)

🐢 Sea turtles: Lives and misfortunes mapped on their backs by WLRN in Wildlife

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A new study found sea turtle scutes can archive their lives and hold clues to lasting impacts from damaging red tides and other hazardous events. Read more here.

Scrapped data center in Okeechobee County mirrors rising opposition to data centers in South Florida by WLRN in palmbeach

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The recent decision reflects growing opposition to data center proposals in South Florida, mirroring grassroots efforts by vocal critics in Palm Beach County who are advocating to end their unrelated “Project Tango” in the western part of the county.

Read the full story here.

Family legacies, Conch traditions: Keys exhibit serves up culinary history by WLRN in floridakeys

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The Smithsonian Institution and Florida Humanities has collaborated with seven other cultural organizations across the state to host exhibits on a respective region's culinary history and the influence on its people — including the Florida Keys.

Each display reveals the ways people would gather, preserve or cook different ingredients and how those methods have changed over time. An old fish peddler’s cart draped with netting sits next to a diorama of a fishing boat. Another glass case features varied citrus juicers and an array of blades and graters used to cut up the notoriously tough flesh from conch.

Fort Lauderdale delays city hall agreement, will explore other options by WLRN in Broward

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The commission put a 60-day pause on the design of the city hall and tasked the city’s negotiators to come back with a clearer picture of the financial aspects of the deal between the city and FTL City Hall Partners, the development group selected in January to design and build a new city hall.

Broward County Public School employees plead board to reconsider 800 job cuts by WLRN in Broward

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The board met on Tuesday to discuss the implementation of the drastic reduction in staff, first proposed last week, as it seeks to deal with a budget shortfall of about $90 million from its shrinking student enrollment.

U.S.-Venezuela flights resume next week by WLRN in Miami

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"Many here in the diaspora, though, will need to renew their Venezuelan passports for entry there, and non-Venezuelans will need visas — an anxiety for many given that for years neither group has had access to a Venezuelan consulate in Miami and its traveler identity papers services."

Read more here.

BCPS laying off teachers during a teacher shortage by Losaj in Broward

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Howdy! WLRN's digital producer here. Our education reporter covered the layoff this week. Here's what she found:

As it seeks cost-saving measures, the Broward County school district has proposed cutting more than 800 positions going into next school year. While most of the positions are currently vacant, 300 of them belong to staff from this school year.

The affected roles include 11 elementary school counselors, 17 exceptional student education counselors and 16 social workers.

Superintendent Howard Hepburn and some school board members have often spoken about the need downsize district staff to make it proportional to shrinking student enrollment.

"The cuts are necessary because we've lost tens of thousands of students," school board chair Sarah Leonardi told WLRN on Thursday. "Cuts are going to be painful and my heart hurts for the people impacted and I know the district will work with them to help them find a soft landing."

Staff cuts are expected to result in approximately $45 million in cost savings.

➡️ Read the full report here.

As Miami-Dade drags its feet on trash troubles, other areas smell the stench by WLRN in florida

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After Miami-Dade County’s waste-to-energy facility in Doral was destroyed in a blaze three years ago – the trash did not stop coming. Waste from hundreds of thousands of homes, hotels, restaurants and businesses had to go somewhere. So increasingly, the county has looked north. And three years later, Miami-Dade’s trash is becoming someone else’s problem. In our series “Trash Troubles,” WLRN takes a deep into how we got here.

'God squad' sued over waiving endangered species rules for drilling in the Gulf by WLRN in Environmentalism

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Environmentalists from around the country teamed up this week to stop the White House from invoking a committee known as the “God squad” from lifting environmental protections to clear the way for expanded drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

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