The families of Negro League baseball players are calling for a national day of recognition and attention for the Negro Leagues, the Black ball-players who were excluded because of race from Major League Baseball teams. The descendants have come together to form the Negro Leagues Family Alliance (NLFA), established in February.
Month: June 2023
State Rep. Fred Hawkins, R-St. Cloud, was selected Wednesday by South Florida State College trustees to succeed retiring school President Thomas Leitzel.
A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a request by the Biden administration for a stay of two rulings by Pensacola-based U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell, who said the policies violated federal law.
As the annual hurricane season started last week, the state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. added about 8,000 policies.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed a wide-ranging bill designed to boost online privacy, including giving people more control over data collected by technology companies.
Gov. Ron DeSantis has extended an executive order to continue using members of the Florida National Guard to help with staffing shortages at state prisons.
A bill that would exempt minor-league baseball players from the state’s voter-approved minimum wage was delivered Monday to Gov. Ron DeSantis. The proposal (SB 892) would incorporate into the state minimum-wage law a carve-out for minor-league baseball players that is in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
Florida A&M University Vice President and Director of Athletics Tiffani-Dawn Sykes recommended name changes to the football field, softball field, and football locker room earlier this year and was unanimously approved Thursday, June 8, at the FAMU Board of Trustees meeting.
The risk of nuclear energy is an easy dividing line. To opponents, names like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima are all the evidence we need that a catastrophic event is unavoidable and unacceptable. For supporters, those events are a sign that disasters are few. Both are right – they happen infrequently, and when they do occur, they are cataclysmic.
Did you know that, according to the Hearing Loss Association of Florida, an estimated 3 million Floridians live with some form of hearing impairment? Even more surprising, only 1 in 5 people who would benefit from a hearing aid actually uses one.