Expect water to be the most dominant item on the Florida Legislature's 2017 agenda. And for that reason, the 7th Annual Florida Water Forum beginning at 1 p.m. today at Loew's Royal Pacific Hotel and Resort in Orlando has already captured the attention of business leaders, lawmakers, scientists and environmentalists -- people looking to solve the critical water issues Florida faces right now.

Technology has put powerful computers in billions of pockets, but an invention much more mundane than the smartphone -- the shipping container: a rectangular steel box -- also has changed the world. Because of it, two of today's preoccupations -- infrastructure and globalization -- are connected by a chain of events that began more than 60 years ago and today runs through Congress and to the wharves of Charleston's booming port.

Emergency repairs to two underground parking decks at the Capitol and planned upgrades to a main entry plaza could reach $75 million.

Department of Management Services Secretary Chad Poppell, whose agency oversees the complex, said officials should have a better grasp on some of the costs in about a month when updated figures are available on the already-closed Senate garage.

"These projects are very complex, about half of the cost is just getting the building ready to work on," Poppell said.

This week, the U.S. House passed U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan’s, R-Fla., bill giving tax incentives to farmers who need to replace trees impacted by citrus greening.