Spokespersons for YouFit, Crunch, Planet Fitness, and LA Fitness tell
New Times that as of this week, they have lifted their mask mandates in Florida but will continue to follow other COVID safety guidelines, including encouraging social distancing and frequently sanitizing equipment.
A spokesperson for Crunch Fitness, a fitness chain with locations in Miami Beach and Cutler Bay, expressed gratitude to DeSantis for lifting restrictions that some gym owners felt were interfering with their livelihood. We want to thank Governor DeSantis for bringing a plan forward to continue lifting the restrictions for gyms and health clubs in Florida, the spokesperson told
After 800,000 salmon died at a Homestead fish farm, animal activists are asking that government officials investigate the farm for animal cruelty and file criminal charges against the company s CEO.
Atlantic Sapphire is a Norwegian industrial fish-farming company with operations in Denmark and Homestead that bills itself as the largest global onshore aquaculture company in the world. At its 160-acre facility in Homestead, the company raises about 10,000 tons of salmon per year, with plans to expand over the next ten years to 220,000 tons a figure that represents more than 40 percent of current U.S. salmon consumption.
As U.S. demand rises for salmon, a so-called superfood that s rich in protein, aquaculture is emerging as the seafood industry s answer to overfishing. Land-based salmon farms like the one in Homestead say they can meet that demand while draining fewer environmental resources than other methods of salmon production, such as the net pen method, in which salmon
When Florida reporters stood outside of the Hilton at Palm Beach International Airport this morning, ready to cover Gov. Ron DeSantis signing of a controversial voting-rights bill, they were told that media outlets would not be permitted inside. As it turned out, DeSantis had given exclusive access to a TV network that has been friendly to his party and to the bill: Fox News.
Confirmed: @CBS12 News is not allowed into the event where @GovRonDeSantis will sign a controversial elections bill into law, per @MadelineTV who is outside.
We were a pool camera, assigned to feed this event to affiliates nationwide.
Little Haiti has its own superhero, and he s trying to help the community with an unlikely superpower: cryptocurrency.
Nandy Martin, who prefers to be known by his alter ego, Captain Haiti, has been a resident of Miami s Little Haiti neighborhood for the past five years. Easily recognizable when he walks or bikes down the street, Martin wears a cape, a red jumpsuit, and a circular shield adorned with the red and blue of the Haitian flag, in tribute to the Marvel Comics character Captain America. Everybody calls me Captain Haiti now, especially kids. But even my friends don t realize who s calling them unless I say, It s Captain Haiti, Martin says.