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Weekly roundup: Dick Vitale's cancer + COVID stats + school district tax election + I-75 construction + manatee deaths + Vern Buchanan's money advantage

Weekly roundup: Dick Vitale's cancer + COVID stats + school district tax election + I-75 construction + manatee deaths + Vern Buchanan's money advantage

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Oct 22, 2021
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Weekly roundup: Dick Vitale's cancer + COVID stats + school district tax election + I-75 construction + manatee deaths + Vern Buchanan's money advantage
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Few people in our area are as beautiful as Dick Vitale.

You can take or leave his work as TV commentator on college basketball, but there is no denying the impact the Lakewood Ranch resident, who this week announced that he again has been diagnosed with cancer, has had in making our world a better, richer place.

Vitale, who has raised tens of millions of …

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