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Tuesday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Chickens are getting sick in Key West. The problem isn’t new, the city says
Key West, please stop feeding the chickens. No, really. Now. When you feed the feral chickens, you’re only hurting the birds, according to the city and local wildlife rescue workers. And lately, Key West’s famous chickens, which roam wherever they want across the island, are having a tough time, the city said Monday.
› Hurricane forecasters: An 'area worth monitoring’ may form, move into Gulf of Mexico
An area of low pressure is expected to form in the western Caribbean this week and could move into the Gulf of Mexico by the weekend. Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center say the system has a 30 percent chance of forming into a tropical cyclone over the next five days. “It’s an area worth monitoring,” the National Weather Service in Tampa tweeted Monday morning.
› Democrats ask full court to hear ballot order fight
Pointing to the “exceptional importance” of issues in the case, Democratic Party organizations want a full federal appeals court to take up a challenge to a Florida law that determines how candidates are listed on election ballots. The organizations are seeking a rehearing after a panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this month rejected the challenge, finding, in part, that the case involves “political questions” that cannot be resolved by judges.
› National platform takes off in Coral Gables creating pipeline of resources, offers, deals
The Coral Gables-based Resorcity (resorcity.com) has announced the national unveiling of its online platform designed to forge stronger connections between government, businesses and residents in cities across the U.S. The free-membership platform encourages and incentivizes local community engagement. The onset of COVID-19 provided the develop team an opportunity to showcase Resorcity’s business stream of deals and offers, linking its members to local restaurants, retailers and services.
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