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Moving from jail to Judge, Kaysia Earley – Judicial Candidate

  At age 21 Kaysia Earley was about to walk across the stage and graduate from college. She was born to a Jamaican father and an American mother and was set to become the first member of her family to graduate from college. Instead, she found herself facing a jail sentence for a felony. She had been working at a popular shoe store and was charged with giving unauthorized discounts to her friends. She was found guilty of embezzlement and faced a possible three-year sentence. To make matters worse, Kaysia was pregnant with her first child. The judge allowed her to attend her graduation from Howard University in Washington, DC. Once the jail found she was pregnant they offered her solitary confinement to accommodate the pregnancy. In all that shame, embarrassment, and stress one thing stood out for Earley: her Public Defender did not utter a word in her defense. […]

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Habitat Broward and the City of Pompano Beach CRA Partner to Welcome Home Four Families to Collier City

      The four homes are part of an innovative 12 home partnership between Habitat, the CRA and the City to revitalize Collier City, remove blighted vacant lots, reduce crime, and deliver an affordable home ownership opportunity to the community. Nine of the 12 lots were deeded to Habitat by the CRA for the construction of affordable single-family homes. Habitat purchased three other lots privately. […]

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City of Pompano Beach and its CRA Issue Invitation to Negotiate to Master Developers -The Global Redevelopment of a New Downtown on 75-plus Acres – Presents Historic Opportunity

The City of Pompano Beach (City) and the Pompano Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) have issued an Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) for a Master Developer to help the City and CRA create a new Downtown and realize the vision of an exciting destination for businesses, residents, tourists, and other investment stakeholders. In preparation for this ITN, the CRA hired globally acclaimed real estate firm CBRE as the exclusive agent to broadly market the opportunity and analyze responses for a Master Real Estate Developer for the +/-75.38-acres of publicly-owned land assemblages along the I-95 corridor. The City and CRA hope to secure a development partner by September 2022 and begin implementation of the new Downtown in 2023 […]

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What’s Wrong with Black and Brown Voters of Today?

It’s interesting to see political candidates at every level of government acknowledge that the votes of Black and Brown citizens alike are often the deciding factor in which candidates win in the majority of elections today. From kissing cute mocha-colored babies and young children on their foreheads to hugging and swooning up against beautiful chocolate-complexioned senior citizens for a quick campaign photo opportunity, nonminority candidates seemingly know how to disillusion and sway the interest of such voters, even if that candidate has done nothing whatsoever for the minority community and has no intention of doing so. […]