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Wednesday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Challenge to amendment that restructures Florida primaries is tossed out
A state appeals court has cleared the way for a cost estimate to be placed on the November ballot about a controversial constitutional amendment that would revamp Florida’s primary-election system. A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal on Friday tossed out a Leon County circuit judge’s ruling that ordered a state panel to revise an estimate of the cost of carrying out the amendment.
› Gator's Dockside Baymeadows, family-friendly Jacksonville sports bar, closes after 25 years
A quarter-century of serving up savory grilled chicken wings, hand-battered fried gator tail and signature pickle chips came to an end when Gator's Dockside Baymeadows abruptly closed this week. The family-friendly sports bar and grill at 8650 Baymeadows Road in Jacksonville closed permanently on Tuesday.
› Royal Caribbean’s next entry for world’s largest cruise ship gets first taste of water
Royal Caribbean’s Wonder of the Seas moved from drydock to the water over the weekend as construction progresses on the next sister ship of the largest cruise ships in the world. While COVID-19 has delayed the fifth Oasis-class vessel until 2022, the ship that will be incrementally larger in terms of gross tons than its four previous sister ships was floated out and moved to a new dock at the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France on Saturday.
› Veterans seek to open Charlie Foxtrot Brewing as first brewery in North Port
Nicolas York and Timothy Price first met in 2012 while deployed to Afghanistan. York, an infantryman, and Price, a medic, developed a friendship that lasted beyond that to become the foundation of Charlie Foxtrot Brewing – a fledgling business that may just become the first brewery to open in North Port.
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