More than $66 million in state funding dedicated to projects and programs in South Florida died Tuesday with the stroke of a pen.
Gov. Rick Scott signed the Florida Legislature's $78.7 billion budget Tuesday, using his line-item veto to cut $461 million from the budget. Included in the cuts were money for quiet zones around railroad tracks, health programs at Nova Southeastern University and an entrepreneurship program at Florida Atlantic University.
Also losing out: Scripps Research Institute at FAU's Jupiter campus, the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center in Hollywood and the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach.