Author: Carma Henry

Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861

 Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis, demanded an executive order, which stated that if schools do not make masks optional and uplift the mask mandate in school, he will cut funding to schools.

       *The Florida Department of Health has suspended daily case and vaccine reports. The department will instead post weekly updates. The numbers reported here reflect the number of new cases and deaths for the previous week, August 13 – August 19.

     Jackson believes that PTSD is a serious mental health illness that afflicted vets should be able to counterattack with medical marijuana provided through the Veterans Affairs’ healthcare system, an option that’s prohibited because marijuana, regardless of its use, is illegal under federal law.  

     We may be living in the denouement of American democracy.  Especially as it touches free and just and fair elections.  Degree by degree those driven by the Big Lie are determined to forego the democratic voting process for a virulent, extreme political allegiance.

  In the strongest possible terms, the NAACP condemns the incendiary comments made by Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick in an interview with Fox News this past week. Plain and simple, unvaccinated African Americans in Texas are not the cause of the surging cases of COVID-19 plaguing the state, nor is this the case across the country. These are the facts.