Welcome to Wednesday. Are you really gonna wear those pants? Huh. What? No, no. You look great. GREAT.
During yesterday's nationwide protests calling for raising the minimum wage to $15/hour, St. Pete City Concilmembers joined demonstrating activists and nearly two dozen were arrested for blocking a roadway during an Ybor City action. "Fifteen dollars an hour for flipping burgers is too much, it devalues the professional salary I went to school and got specialized training to earn," said a paramedic who doesn't know the difference between economics and ego.
The former Polk County teacher sentenced to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to 37 sex charges involving 3 of her students lost her attempt to have her sentence shortened. The judge probably didn't make a joke about how oh, now she doesn't want it to last as long, because life isn't a sitcom and also that would've been wildly inappropriate.
Universal Orlando is getting a Nintendo "land." Better make sure it's got a bar where Gen X'ers can drown their sorrows after their kids ask 'em who Mario and Zelda are.
And finally, that bald eagle that was hit by a car in Clearwater back in October was released back into the wild after eight weeks of care and rehabilitation. When Busch Gardens tried to contact the eagle about its medical bills shortly after, they discovered it had given them a fake address, and also stolen a considerable amount of prescription pain medication. This led to the creation of a new subspecies, the "Florida bald eagle."
This article appears in Nov 24 – Dec 1, 2016.