Author: Carma Henry

       The district has equipped nearly 1,300 school buses with AI-powered stop-arm cameras designed to detect motorists who fail to stop when a bus is loading or unloading students. Officials say the initiative, launched in partnership with BusPatrol, is intended to improve student safety by discouraging dangerous driving around school buses.

       Sweeping changes to U.S. student and temporary visa policies announced by the Trump administration could significantly alter the educational landscape for colleges, universities, and immigrant communities across the nation, including South Florida.

Broward County residents looking to achieve homeownership may now have access to significant financial assistance through the County’s Home Purchase Assistance Program.

More than 8,000 Florida students will gain valuable hands-on career training through a $14.6 million investment from the Florida Department of Education’s Pathways to Career Opportunities Grant (PCOG), an initiative designed to expand apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs across the state.

Affordable diet and simple lifestyle changes can replace the need for medication, surgeries and expensive healthcare that you do not have.  This is part 2 of an info series on using a plant-based diet to prevent, reverse and avoid many diseases and conditions like heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, etc.   This is Preventative Medicine you can practice on your own.

     If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Carroll would add another historic achievement to a career marked by breaking barriers, becoming one of the highest-ranking Black women from Northeast Florida to represent the United States on the world stage.

     Sickle cell disease is more than a diagnosis. It is a lifelong battle. It does not recognize birthdays, holidays, careers, or family plans. A normal day can become a medical emergency within hours. Yet one of the hardest parts of this journey has not always been the disease itself. It has been watching my children fight to have their pain believed and treated with the urgency, dignity, and compassion they deserve.

     An ancient proverb warns that a double-edged sword wounds not only its intended target but also the one who wields it. Critics and constitutional scholars increasingly invoke that metaphor to describe what they view as the evolving relationship between the Supreme Court and the Republican-controlled Congress. They argue that, by gradually conceding portions of their constitutional authority to the executive branch, both institutions have helped create what some describe as an “Imperial Presidency”—one possessing powers that now threaten not only America’s constitutional democracy but also the very institutions that helped create it.

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