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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump brought a groundswell of interest from the small business world this week when he announced a proposed policy that, if he were elected, would provide six weeks of paid maternity leave for women who give birth while employed, a proposal similar to that of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
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Of all the good news the latest census data can give, let’s start with the best of it: Jacksonville is still the nation’s 12th most populous city, thanks to San Francisco’s slowing growth. But give it a year or two and San Francisco still may overtake us.
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Of all the good news the latest census data can give, let’s start with the best of it: Jacksonville is still the nation’s 12th most populous city, thanks to San Francisco’s slowing growth. But give it a year or two and San Francisco still may overtake us.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump brought a groundswell of interest from the small business world this week when he announced a proposed policy that, if he were elected, would provide six weeks of paid maternity leave for women who give birth while employed, a proposal similar to that of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
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TALLAHASSEE | A new study highlights that Duval is one of three Florida counties accounting for almost a quarter of the state’s youth misdemeanor arrests, opting for arrest over a proven alternative.
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Sharon Ellis gets goose bumps when she looks out over the unfinished pathways that surround Lake Wonderwood on Mayport Naval Station.
The progress she sees on each visit to the lake gives her chills.
When she first laid eyes on the property, the vegetation was overgrown and children had to walk through the woods to get to school. It wasn’t a place anyone would want to take their family, Ellis said.
She’s trying to change that.

Andrea Kalin first got to know Stetson Kennedy while working on her 2007 documentary “Soul of the People,” which was about the Depression era Works Progress Administration (WPA).
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All northbound lanes of Interstate 295 at Interstate 10 are closed due to a three-vehicle accident, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Emergency vehicles are on I-295 West near the Normandy Boulevard and Wilson Boulevard exits as they join the Highway Patrol handling the accident that saw one person ejected, according to fire officials.
The Wilson Boulevard/Exit 17 on-ramp is closed due to those rescue vehicles, according to the Florida Department of Transportation.

Bethany Fonseca had a stroke in October 2014.
She was just 27.
“I was completely shocked, but it made me look back on the warning signs I had before, the warning signs I just shoved off as if nothing was wrong,” she said.
Only later did Fonseca find out that she had multiple risk factors for stroke: birth control pills, history of migraine headaches and a then-undiscovered hole in her heart.
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In her work as an advanced registered nurse practitioner, Lolita Massengill saw far too many people who could not afford health care.
So in 2006 she founded Legacy of Care, a nonprofit that runs an all-volunteer, by-appointment free clinic in the Panama Park area of Jacksonville, just south of the Trout River. The second Saturday morning of every month, 30 or so doctors, nurses, other health-care practitioners and other volunteers converge to provide primary care for uninsured patients from 9 a.m. until all patients are seen, usually 1 or 2 p.m.