It's Friday. Why are you reading the internet on a Friday? Go outside and do outside stuff, fly a football kite that feeds the ducks or whatever.
Amazon knocked the Tampa Bay area (and Orlando) off its list of potential locations for its secondary headquarters. The only Florida region on the shortlist is Miami, which makes perfect sense if your global fulfillment company doesn't need to be centrally located near anything other than, you know, Miami.
Several activists and citizens spoke at yesterday's St. Pete City Council meeting about how the police presence during Monday's MLK Day festivities seemed a little overbearing in some predominantly African-American neighborhoods. In the PR business, they'd say the optics on that were, uh, not good.
An Ybor City business owner reportedly found a zip-lock baggie containing the legs of a kitten outside her business yesterday morning, in an area where a homeless person was captured on video setting up camp for the night. For the first time ever, I got nothin'.
And finally, OJ Simpson's lawyer says the acquitted possible murderer won't be moving to Florida, contradicting reports from back in October prior to his release from prison. Who's disappointed? Nobody, with the possible exception of George Zimmerman.
This article appears in Jan 18-25, 2018.