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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a polar opposite to Donald Trump in almost every way, joined the new U.S. president at the White House Monday keen to build a relationship that doesn’t threaten trade. The neighboring leaders are expected to talk about free trade in their first face-to-face meeting.
Most Florida public schoolchildren don’t get outdoor playtime every school day — and getting it even several days a week isn’t a guarantee in many school districts. It’s that inconsistency that’s leading passionate "recess moms" to once again lobby lawmakers this spring to pass a statewide, mandatory requirement that elementary schoolchildren get 20 minutes of recess each day.
At a time when the number of homes for sale remains unusually low, the ranks of real estate agents vying for listings continues to swell. There were 32,954 first-time applicants who took the state exam in 2016, the most in 10 years.
And including repeat test-takers, the number of people who passed — 27,926 — brought Florida’s total of currently licensed agents to almost 250,000.
Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone. That’s how the David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts is rolling out its 2017-18 Broadway season. The venue starting in the fall will mix up straightforward romance with musicals that tell stories of Latino and African-American experience, with some Riverdance thrown in and recent hits coming back for an encore. The prime examples are the season opener, On Your Feet! (Oct. 24-29), the story of Cuban-born singer-and-producer couple Gloria and Emilio Estefan, and The Color Purple (March 6-11, 2018), which confronts racial inequality in 1930s Georgia.
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