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Meleah Lyden

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Sep 14, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Meleah Lyden

    Professor wonders how ban on undocumented students will affect investment on the next generation (opens the original)

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    A University of Central Florida professor wonders: When Florida pours into students from K-12, what happens to the investment when undocumented students can no longer get a higher education? This comes as the Florida Board of Governors recently voted to require the state's dozen public universities to verify that all their students are legally in the United States. A similar rule was approved two months ago for state colleges and General Educational Development (GED) programs. The ban on admitti

  2. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Meleah Lyden

    NASA scientist on searching for exoplanets and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (opens the original)

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    A new space telescope on the hunt for exoplanets is set to launch from the Kennedy Space Center at the end of the month. It's called the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and it's searching for evidence of galactic glue — the elusive dark matter that holds our universe together — as well as planets that exist outside our solar system. NASA and SpaceX are targeting the launch for Aug. 30 at 7:26 a.m. The telescope will be on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, according to a release. Scientists like N

  3. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · Meleah Lyden

    Florida will be actively testing 'flying cars' by the end of the year, DeSantis says (opens the original)

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    After decades of viewing flying cars as a figment in movies like "Back to the Future," Gov. Ron DeSantis said the reality of it might not be too far out. This is because SunTrax AirGround in Polk County will be actively testing electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL) by the end of the year, DeSantis announced Monday at the Auburndale facility. "I can't promise we will ever be able to take you to the future or to the past, but I think we're going to be able to get you up in the air

  4. Article · Aug 6, 2026 · Meleah Lyden

    Retired turtle farmer fears retaliation after Florida wildlife agency accesses personal information (opens the original)

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    A retired turtle farmer from Jupiter says he's afraid of what law enforcement could do next after he learned a state agency searched his personal data 34 times. This comes as recent reporting by the Miami Herald and Orlando Sentinel uncovered that Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation officers used driver's license records of environmental activists who criticized the agency or spoke at public meetings. The reporting found the FWC used the state's DAVID system — known as the Driver and Vehicle

  5. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Meleah Lyden

    Lt. Gov. Jay Collins talks affordability, property taxes ahead of GOP gubernatorial primary (opens the original)

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    Early voting is underway for Florida's Aug. 18 primary election, and a key race on the ballot is for the Republican nomination for governor. Lt. Gov. Jay Collins of Tampa is one of the candidates. He's a decorated U.S. Army Special Forces combat veteran and served as a Green Beret. He was elected to the Florida Senate in 2022 and represented part of Hillsborough County before being appointed lieutenant governor last year. Other prominent contenders in the race are congressman Byron Donalds (who

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