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Breast cancer awareness is a global initiative aimed at educating individuals about the risks, prevention, early detection, and treatment of breast cancer.

Florida has one of the largest medical marijuana markets – contributing more than $1 Billion to the economy, but Black entrepreneurs and patients are getting left behind. For decades the cannabis industry has had capable Black entrepreneurs who have operated legacy businesses, but too few Black Florida entrepreneurs have opportunities to break into the legal cannabis market. 

With the state paying for the flights, a Tampa-based non-profit organization brought a group of Americans home from Israel on Sunday as part of carrying out an executive order issued last week by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

     This Veterans Day, remind your audiences of the countless soldiers who were on “the forgotten front” by sharing the riveting true story of Lieutenant Philip Larimore, whose astonishing experiences in Southern Europe during World War II are revealed for the first time by his son Walt Larimore in the new book, At First Light: A True World War II Story of a Hero, His Bravery, and an Amazing Horse.

    Ol Pete watched with glee as Alfreda Coward of Coward and Coward Law spoke truth to power in the most eloquent way possible at the Board meeting on Tuesday.  If you recall, Ol Pete called it months ago when reporting that Broward schools uses the process of “rejecting all bids” when a vendor who they don’t like wins a contract.  Coward and her sister, Kimberly responded to a request for proposal to provide legal services to the district.  Only two vendors applied, and Coward and Coward were awarded the bid. District staff notified them that they had won and began the process of negotiating contract terms.