Who said that? | 1/27/2021 Donna Kalil
For most people, encountering an 18-foot-long python can be a terrifying experience. For Donna Kalil, who left her lucrative job as a real estate agent to become a hunter of the powerful snakes, it’s “a very exciting thing.”
Kalil decided to start capturing Burmese pythons in the Everglades after reading a story in the Miami Herald about one of the snakes blowing up when it swallowed a 6-foot alligator after a confrontation in 2005.
She realized there was a problem with these snakes, although she did not know how big it was and she turned her life upside down to help remove pythons in the fragile Everglades ecosystem, where they are an invasive species.
Wednesday s Daily Pulse | 1/27/2021
Florida gets boost in tax revenues in December
Florida in December recorded its best monthly general-revenue collections since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The Legislature’s Office of Economic & Demographic Research estimated revenue for December at $336.7 million over a forecast revised in August. What’s more, the $2.999.4 billion in overall revenue was $154.4 million higher than what had been forecast before the pandemic hit. [Source: News Service of Florida] Pandemic getaways present marketing challenge for Visit Florida
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Florida gets boost in tax revenues in December
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida in December recorded its best monthly general-revenue collections since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Legislature’s Office of Economic & Demographic Research estimated revenue for December at $336.7 million over a forecast revised in August.
What’s more, the $2.999.4 billion in overall revenue was $154.4 million higher than what had been forecast before the pandemic hit.
“The December results were above the pre-pandemic estimates for the month by the largest margin seen since the pandemic began,” the revenue report released Tuesday said.
Sales tax numbers were up $178.3 million over the revised August forecast.
A top Florida economist told lawmakers Thursday that financial problems could linger for a couple of years because of the resurging coronavirus pandemic, as first-time unemployment claims tripled in the first full week of 2021.