Crist promotes school voucher program
FORT LAUDERDALE – When Antonio Trigo came close to failing in public school, his grandmother applied for a tax-credit scholarship so he could attend private …
Second edition of Who’s Who in Black South Florida released
HALLANDALE BEACH – Over the past several years, a new crop of movers and shakers has quietly descended on South Florida, taking their place alongside …
Camp counselor faces arrest for allegedly slapping child
FORT LAUDERDALE – Investigators are looking for a summer camp counselor who is accused of hitting a 7-year-old boy, giving him a large knot on …
Lecture explores African roots of salsa
When Barbara Craddock takes to the dance floor, the music transports her back half a century to the Palladium Ballroom in New York, where incredible …
CNN’s Latino special avoids Dobbs
NEW YORK (AP) — CNN aired a four-hour special on Latinos in America this week that ignored its own commentator Lou Dobbs, whose persistent advocacy …
Bailed out firms ordered to cut executives’ pay
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department on Thursday ordered seven companies that received billions of dollars in government bailouts to cut in half total compensation …
Revised formula puts 1 in 6 Americans in poverty
WASHINGTON (AP) — The level of poverty in America is even worse than first believed. A revised formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations …
Praise in the Storm
The pressures of the financial tsunami have hit millions of people in South Florida, the nation, and abroad. For many, regular paychecks, rainy-day savings accounts …
Loving As If
In Genesis’ (29:20) account of Jacob and Rachel’s love, we learn that “Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a …
THE POLITICS OF BLACKNESS: Bush lied, people died; Obama lied, people cried
The pitiful hypocrisy of liberals is so transparent, it’s pathetic. It’s also immoral, unethical and just downright dumb. Every day for eight years, liberals called …