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Wednesday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Tattoo artists in Florida ready to go back to work
Tattoo business owners reportedly generate nearly $2.6 million dollars and licenses and fees per year. Now, they are losing money every day and don’t understand why they aren’t open like other businesses that deal with the body, such as nail and hair salons that were allowed to reopen Monday in much of Florida.
› Lakeland photographer captures colors of Florida
Among the many picture books already published featuring natural Florida, Randy Johnson’s “The Colors of Florida: An Unusual Field Guide” takes a different approach. Johnson turned his lenses to focus on the delicate hues of life in the wild. Johnson arranged the pictures in the book by colors that unfurl on a spectrum as each page is turned. At the top of each page is a strip of color with a range of hues and Johnson said the collective colors of each picture, “the focal point,” fall within those hues. It’s an organizational set he said he hasn’t personally seen in other nature photo anthologies.
› Pensacola motor coach company heading to D.C. to rally for federal assistance
Good Time Tours is heading to Washington to D.C. but not for leisure. The Pensacola charter bus company is joining other buses for Motorcoaches Rolling for Awareness Wednesday morning. Good Time Tours general manager Jerri Smith said without federal assistance companies like theirs won't survive the COVID shutdowns.
› Hair Cuttery and sister companies ordered to pay $1.1 million to workers they stiffed
Being shut down by a pandemic forced Creative Hairdressers into bankruptcy, but a U.S. Bankruptcy Court let the company know that didn’t mean it didn’t owe employees pay for work already done. That’s approximately $1,149,965 to over 7,500 employees, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday night, or about $153.33 per employee.
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