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TAXIATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION CONCERNS FROM THE 2025 LEGISLATIVE SESSION

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE OF REPRESENTATION OF THE ISSUES TALLAHASSEE — Though they will have to return to Tallahassee to hammer out a budget, Florida lawmakers Friday night finished most of the business of the 2025 legislative session. Here’s a look at 10 big issues from the session — some that passed, some Read More…

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Urban League of Greater Miami: Where are they now?

T. Willard Fair, the Urban League of Greater Miami’s president and CEO, has worked with the organization for more than 60 years. He had a prominent voice in the community, both experiencing and contributing to integration and other forms of progress within the city, and sharing his bold points of view with The Miami Times. Read More…

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Attorney Zulu Ali Continues to Make History, Named 2024 Criminal Defense Litigator

Nationwide — Attorney Zulu Ali, founder and principal of the Law Offices of Zulu Ali & Associates, LLP, the largest Black-owned law firm in California’s Inland Empire, has been selected “Criminal Defense Litigator of the Year” for 2024 by the American Institute of Trial Lawyers (AIOTL). Membership in AIOTL is by invitation-only. The professional organization is comprised Read More…

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Another major disaster for Georgia faces a week after Hurricane Helene

Seventeen thousand people were evacuated from the area, and around 90,000 more were ordered to shelter in place as an ominous smoke column loomed over the county and spewed chlorine gas throughout the week. This took place after scores of Georgia residents already reeling from Hurricane Helene have been grappling with fallout from another disaster Read More…

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GREAT EXPOSURE: How did the nation’s poorest state spent federal welfare money

When Anna Wolfe won the Pulitzer Prize for her dogged reporting on Mississippi’s welfare fraud scandal, she had no inkling she was soon going to have to contend with the possibility of going to jail. But just over a year after she secured journalism’s top award for exposing how $77 million in federal welfare funds went to Read More…

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Jaffus Hardrick: Florida Memorial President Resigns

Florida Memorial University (FMU) officials are huddling to determine their next course of action following the resignation late Friday of their president Jaffus Hardrick, Ed.D., who departed suddenly with three years left on his contract. “I am grateful to leadership, faculty, staff, students, alumni, and the community for the success of our great university, and Read More…