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An additional tranche of $3.3 million in federal money is heading to Jacksonville to assist COVID-impacted households with rent and utilities.
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JTA began offering the free bus rides in 2020 as a way to thank health care employees who had to go to work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Health experts are encouraging people to get the booster to help prevent another holiday surge, but many people have not answered the call.
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Jacksonville is starting to compete with cities like Nashville, Tennessee; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Austin, Texas, to draw in new businesses and headquarters for larger companies.
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The Florida Department of Health found that influenza cases from August to September were higher than expected, which could be an indication of an above-average season. Meantime, COVID continues to linger.
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Students' test scores fell for both math and reading, but local scores fell less than at most large urban school districts.
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A new report from the American Hotel and Lodging Association as well as Kalibri Labs shows Jacksonville outperforming the national average when it comes to generating revenue above 2019 numbers.
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Dr. Jack Resneck Jr. disagreed with the advice of Florida's surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who discouraged mRNA vaccines for men 18 to 39 years old.
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Many school districts on the First Coast have dropped most of the COVID-19 mitigation restrictions used earlier in the pandemic. Some are no longer notifying parents when COVID cases arise.
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A state appeals court this month will wade into a dispute about whether the University of Florida should refund fees to students who were forced to switch to remote learning in 2020 during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.