Author: Carma Henry

Coronavirus Report: October 12, 2020

     Michelle Greene Rhodes, Founder and CEO of Michelle Rhodes Media LLC in Tampa, Florida, has created a place for nurses to personally develop and meet their big goals outside of the traditional roles. The RNterprise™ Academy is an online brand that helps nurses go “onward and upward” in business. The program, developed in 2016, was created to help nurses meet their maximum potential and avoid burnout, a common problem in healthcare. For those nurses who enjoy business but feel stuck, this could be an excellent option to support healthcare. This can also help alleviate the swinging door in this field where statistics show up to 33% of nurses leave the field withing the first two years of beginning the profession.

     Once revered as “America’s Dad,” Cosby was accused of plying his love interest, Andrea Constand, with one and a half Benadryl tablets and then digitally penetrating her at his home in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. Testimony and a controversial civil deposition, a document that the high court cited in granted the appeal, revealed a months-long love affair between Cosby and Constand.

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     But beginning Monday, Harris will likely find herself walking a tightrope of sorts during her questioning of Amy Coney Barrett at the judge’s U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Eric Hale, a first-grade teacher at Burnet Elementary School in Dallas, has made history as the first African American man to ever win Texas Teacher of the Year!

     Once upon a time, no-excuse Vote-By-Mail (VBM) did not exist and neither did Early Voting.  We only voted on Election Day, meaning there was only one place where you could vote (your precinct), and there was someone there to guide you through the process.  VBM has made it easier in some ways, but harder in other ways.

Florida is famous for its razor thin statewide election margins.  And for the last twenty years, the nail-biting phenomenon has been the only certainty voters and candidates are assured of when all the ballots are counted. In Election 2020 the Florida chapters of the nation’s oldest African American Greek sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha has launched an effort to increase Black voter participation in rural counties with significant Black voter population.

     We have Miramar High, where the principal reported Monday that an employee tested positive for COVID-19.  Central Park Elementary reported that a male student was sent home Friday by the isolation nurse with flu like symptoms. “The father took student to doctor to be tested and will notify school immediately of results.” It’s unclear if those results have come back.