Let's do this.
The city of St. Pete has decided to step boldly into the, er, not-so-recent past by doing away with the outmoded bus route design that has downtown's Williams Park as its hub. For more information on why a city laid out largely as a grid would've adopted a hub-and-spoke public transit protocol in the first place, please refer to the fact that we're apes with tools.
Florida wildlife officials called last month's black bear hunt, which was aborted after more than 300 bears were killed in less than two days, a smashing success. Not sure if that refers to the fact that they killed more bears faster than they ever thought they could, or the belief that they got that one bear that was digging through that guy's garbage.
New app-driven service Drizly, which delivers beer, wine and spirits from ABC Liquor stores to homes in various Tampa neighborhoods, launched. The rollout must have gone pretty well, because no one remembers how the rollout went.
Arizona campaign staffers for presidential candidate Marco Rubio were busted for trying to keep costs down by hogging the password-protected wifi of the pizza joint next door to their headquarters. Initiative! Bootstrapping! Doing more with less! etc. Somebody at Rubio's Arizona campaign headquarters obviously has their eye on a future in politics.
And finally, a baby rhinoceros at Busch Gardens has been named Nyota via a contest among the theme park's Facebook followers. Nyota, it should be noted, was part of Lt. Uhura's full name in the original Star Trek series, and is Swahili for "increased aggregate cross-platform social engagement return." (Nah. Actually, it means "star.")
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