Jaylen Waddle was/is a big fan of Miley Cyrus.
Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty It s been a week since the Miami Dolphins added a fresh batch of players to their roster via the NFL draft. From the selection of highly acclaimed Alabama wide receiver Jaylen Waddle with the sixth-overall pick to the signing of his college teammate, fullback Carl Tucker, there are some new faces on their way to the Dolphins Davie facility. But who are these guys, really? What do you need to know about them? Both great questions. Neither something we can answer. What we
can tell you are some extremely unimportant facts you don t need to know about the newest Miami Dolphins. Why? Because anyone can read Wikipedia or pull up statistics.
Few strings are attached. New employees must be hired before Ch i opens and they must work at least 90 days to earn the bonus. Emi Guerra, cofounder of Breakwater Hospitality Group and a partner in Ch i, says the shortage of hospitality-industry workers isn t limited to Miami. It s really a national problem. Everyone in the hospitality industry speaks to each other, and this is a universal problem. Guerra says that when the pandemic hit, employees at restaurants, bars, clubs, and hotels were the hardest hit. Some filed for unemployment and are still collecting, while others have moved on to other cities or other jobs. People had to make career changes. That s something to do with the lack of talented candidates.
During Florida s contentious legislative session, two Republican lawmakers filed legislation to prohibit transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools. State Sen. Kelli Stargel and Rep. Kaylee Tuck argued it was necessary to preserve the integrity of competitive, segregated sports and claimed that transgender athletes have an unfair advantage over cisgender females.
Stargel temporarily postponed the Florida Senate bill on April 20, and the measure was considered dead. Instead, part of the bill was hastily tacked on as an amendment to a bill about charter schools. Ignoring impassioned pleas from trans-rights groups and Democratic lawmakers, the Republican-dominated legislature passed the bill on April 28, including the transgender-athlete amendment.
Photo by Jessica Lipscomb Adorning the cover of the first-ever print edition of the new
Islandia Journalquarterly magazine is the image of an Everglades Griffin. Part lion, part alligator (because Florida), and part bird, this mythical creature is both fantastical and practical all at once.
Islandia pronounced with or without a Spanish accent is all about the fantastic. As the tiny print on the third page puts it, “
Islandia Journal is a (sub)tropical periodical of prose, poetry, and visual art.” To put it another way,
Islandia is a collection of pictures and stories about Florida and the Caribbean told through myth, folklore, history, the paranormal, and the environment.
The incident report, which Kennedy and Stern obtained in response to a public-records request, states that FDLE Special Agent Alejandro Oliva met with an MDPD sergeant on April 7 in reference to the governor s press conference the next day. Oliva told the sergeant about Kennedy, saying that he was a known agitator with a history of disrupting DeSantis events. (Kennedy, who s 30, has garnered a reputation in recent years for crashing DeSantis press conferences, publicly telling off the governor, and posting videos of his actions to social media.) The FDLE gave the MDPD a physical description of Kennedy and his vehicle, which allowed officers to spot him when he drove into the PortMiami parking lot on the day of the press conference. The report says Kennedy was asked about his business at the port and told the conference was a private event and that he was not included on the list. He was then issued a trespass warning because he was not authorized or invited to be there.