Miami Beach mayor: ‘Entertainment district must go’ after another chaotic weekend
Nearly 150 arrests reported Friday and Saturday, with guns, drugs and cash confiscated
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber delivered his 2021 state of the city address Monday morning, during which he spoke about changing the culture of the city’s nightlife sector after incidents this past weekend led to almost 150 arrests.
“We don’t need what we have right now,” Gelber added. “I urge my colleagues to be bold and resist the urge to make only incremental changes.”
Gelber also said he is committing to a “substantial” increase in police officers, and that he has asked Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava to add additional county officers to areas of high tourism.
Mar. 12 Shortly after President Joe Biden directed states to make the COVID-19 vaccine available for all by May, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine-Cava drafted a plan to begin slowly moving toward the president's goal. On Thursday, Levine-Cava tweeted she had sent a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis calling on him to create a schedule to expand eligibility to all adults. In her letter, Cava .
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The daily rundown Between Wednesday and Thursday, the number of Florida coronavirus cases increased by 5,065 (nearly 0.3 percent), to 1,962,651; active hospitalizations went down by 53 (nearly 1.7 percent), to 3,158; deaths rose by 92 (nearly 0.3 percent), to 32,040; 3,895,656 Floridians have had at least one dose of a vaccine.
Well, let’s see how this goes now President Joe Biden gave his first prime-time presidential address Thursday night where he said all American adults will be eligible for coronavirus vaccination by May.
Counting down Biden’s new timeline came just hours after Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested that Florida may open up vaccine eligibility sooner. The governor already announced that Florida would lower its age restriction to 60 years old on Monday, and plans to drop the threshold to 55 sometime later this month. “We could be in a position, sometime in April, where it’s just available, and p