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Monday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› The Wine Room tasting place with 2,500 rare wines coming to Delray Beach
The restaurant, which replaces the former Caffe Martier, will become the second location of the 13-year-old Wine Room in Winter Park. It will boast more than 200 wines dispensed from Enomatic machines, along with 80-plus cheeses and 2,500 bottles of rare wines.
› The new USF president is here — and he brought ideas
He’s met with student government leaders, hung artwork on the walls inside his on-campus home and twice dined at Ybor City’s Columbia Restaurant. A week into the job, Steve Currall is settling in as president of the University of South Florida.
› Train horns to be silenced across South Florida
Effective 12:01 a.m. Monday, engineers will no longer be required to blast their horns at every one of the 18 railroad crossings between Northeast 79th Street and County Line Road in north Miami-Dade. That completes the long-promised and oft-delayed installation of supplemental safety measures at many of the larger railroad crossings along the Florida East Coast rail line that mostly runs parallel to Dixie and Federal highways through three counties.
› Public Records Began To Reveal How Much Florida Cabinet's Israel Trip Cost Taxpayers
When Florida Cabinet members jetted off to Israel in late May, some state employees who traveled at taxpayer expense stayed in a more than $400-a-night luxury hotel in Jerusalem, where a Cabinet meeting was held. More than a month after the trade mission ended, the full cost of the trip, proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, is not clear.
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