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Orange County has received a $20 million federal grant to expand its autonomous shuttle system at Lake Nona, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao said Tuesday, part of a combined $62 million in transportation awards to three Florida cities. Chao was at Lake Nona, a southeast Orlando neighborhood, along with Gov. Ron DeSantis and state transportation secretary Kevin Thibault to reveal a combined $883 million in Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) grants nationwide. Orange County was among just a handful out of more than 600 applications across the U.S. to get funding. The grant to the Orange’s Local...

That's Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata's take on how efforts to craft a bond for infrastructure needs will highlight whether Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is serious about working with legislators... and not campaigning against them. Perata briefed Capitol reporters this afternoon on what he considers the road map for Senate Democrats. And he was emphatic at stressing both the need for long-term thinking, and how Democrats will be watching to see whether the governor lives up to his promises of cooperation in the aftermath of the special election. "This will be the test," said the Oakland Democrat, in discussing plans...