While COVID-19 remains a lingering menace to society, there appears to be no end in sight for the corporate relocation and expansion boom it fostered in Florida.

The tropics may be quiet, but forecasters at the National Hurricane Center are listening. The NHC began its daily tropical outlooks on Sunday, two weeks ahead of the official start of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season.

The state averaged over 5,600 cases a day during the seven-day period from May 7-13. That’s up 20 percent from the week before, and it’s the eighth straight week that infections have climbed.

Pointing to “urgency” as the 2022 elections near, attorneys for voting-rights groups requested Friday that a battle over a new congressional redistricting plan be put on a fast track to the Florida Supreme Court.

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced May 13 the appointment of Cord Byrd as Florida secretary of state. Byrd, founder of the Law Office of Cord Byrd in Atlantic Beach, was elected to the state House of Representatives in 2016.