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The Departments of Treasury, Justice and State provide unwanted distractions for Barack Obama’s second-term agenda. COMPILED FROM WIRE AND STAFF REPORTS Four months into his second term, President Barack Obama finds himself under siege from members of both parties and the news media for a series of crises that have stalled his policy priorities and [...]

May 16, 2013No CommentRead More

CLASS OF 2013

At last, it’s graduation time! A jubilant Jerred Mason was among thousands of graduates receiving degrees Monday from Daytona State College. The Daytona Beach college made national news this week because one of its 4,200 spring graduates included 91-year-old Irene Lewis, who, like Mason, received a bachelor’s degree. (COURTESY OF DAYTONA STATE COLLEGE)

May 16, 2013No CommentRead More

Decisions, decisions

Education bills await governor BY BRANDON LARRABEE THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA The biggest battles on the education front in the 2013 legislative sessions have already been fought and largely decided. Educators will get $480 million in pay raises, though not precisely how Gov. Rick Scott had asked. The Senate killed a bill allowing parents [...]

May 16, 2013No CommentRead More

Miami-Dade early voters opposed stadium funding

THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA The Miami Dolphins were down 14 percentage points at the polls when time ran out on their bid to pick up needed legislative support for the referendum on using hotel bed-tax dollars for upgrades at Sun Life Stadium. Of the 60,678 ballots cast toward the May 14 referendum in Miami-Dade [...]

May 16, 2013No CommentRead More

‘WE’RE DONE’

WELFARE QUEENS? THE CONCLUSION – With those words, the Florida House of Representatives closed up shop for the year, and refused to vote on requests for millions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies to be paid to pro sports entities located around the state. COMPILED FROM WIRE AND STAFF REPORTS A pair of last-ditch measures tied [...]

May 9, 2013No CommentRead More

JAMES BROWN / 80th BIRTHDAY

Happy belated birthday, Godfather! James Brown is pictured in 1969 at Los Angeles International Airport with his Lincoln Continental and his private Learjet. Brown died in 2006. Had he lived, he would have turned 80 on May 3. (FLORIDA COURIER FILE)

May 9, 2013No CommentRead More

$50 billion left on the table

Florida won’t use money for ‘Obamacare’ COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS As the Florida Legislature’s latest session came to a close, Democrats renewed a call for a special session to expand health care coverage to cover more uninsured Floridians. Legislators adjourned last week without passing legislation that had been filed that would have either used federal [...]

May 9, 2013No CommentRead More

Rattlers name new Marching ‘100’ director

SPECIAL TO THE FLORIDA COURIER Florida A&M University (FAMU) has named Sylvester Young its new director of marching and pep bands. Young, a FAMU graduate and former member of the Marching “100,” spent nearly 25 years at Ohio University, most recently as band director. FAMU Interim President Larry Robinson made the announcement Tuesday after an [...]

May 9, 2013No CommentRead More

FOURTH QUARTER

WELFARE QUEENS? PART 4 – Pro sports taxpayer subsidy bills hits turbulence as the Florida Legislature’s current session draws to a close, adding uncertainty to the Miami Dolphins’ urgent stadium renovation timeline. BY JAMES HARPER FLORIDA COURIER With the Florida Legislature set to finish its business on Friday – after the Florida Courier’s press time [...]

May 2, 2013No CommentRead More

Rattlers leading the way

Black women are engineering successes SPECIAL TO THE FLORIDA COURIER TALLAHASSEE – Female students in the Florida A&M University (FAMU) – Florida State University (FSU) College of Engineering are making moves in a field often dominated by their male counterparts. There are currently six women earning their Ph.D.’s through the College’s Title III Program. All [...]

May 2, 2013No CommentRead More