The City of Miami Beach opened a new Kayak launch today at 73 St and Dickens Avenue.
Outdoorsy types seemed pretty excited about the news.
It’s official, the kayak launch is now open at 73 ST & Dickens Ave! #MBParks pic.twitter.com/XxcGVdaLzt
— City of Miami Beach (@MiamiBeachNews) May 25, 2017
The city manager, Jimmy Morales also spoke about why he thinks the new launch will be good for the city.
A great new addition to the North Beach area with our new kayak launch! Well done to the entire team #MBParks pic.twitter.com/kpDugNkUIJ
— Jimmy Morales (@CityManagerMB) May 25, 2017
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The Human Rights Campaign released its fifth annual Municipal Equality Index, which measures the state of LGBT equality in 506 cities across the country.
The Index also measured eight Alabama cities on a series of 44 criteria that fall into five general categories:
1) Non-discrimination laws
2)Municipal employment policies, including transgender-inclusive insurance coverage and non-discrimination requirements for contractors
3)Inclusiveness of city services
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None of the Alabama cities did well at all in the index- with none of the eight cities scoring above a 12 out of 100 possible points.
The national average was 55 points out of 100.
Here’s how the cities performed:
- Birmingham-12%
- Florence– 12%
- Hoover– 12%
- Montgomery– 9%
- Mobile– 7%
- Tuscaloosa– 6%
- Huntsville– 5%
- Auburn– 0%
The only points that Tuscaloosa received was for having “Enumerated Anti-Bullying School Policies” in place in city schools.
Pretty pitiful.
And if you think it is impossible for a Southern city to get a perfect score on the HRC index, you would really wrong.
Atlanta actually got a 104.
Orlando got a 100.
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