Mentoring group celebrates young ladies’ strengths
It was an afternoon of singing, dancing, drawing and reciting when PreCision, a nonprofit mentoring program for young women, held its graduation ceremony on Sunday …
Students capture multiple AP honors
Palm Beach County high schools and their students received multiple honors in Advanced Placement courses and their showing on the culminating AP exams. According to …
Anti-gang initiative takes services and information to residents
(Florida International University) – Volunteers and workers from social service agencies and anti-gang and juvenile violence programs hit the streets on July 25 in the …
Biscayne Corridor retail center gets national retail stores
Stiles Realty has signed three national tenants to fill retail space at the Publix at 18Biscayne project, a new Publix-anchored urban retail shopping center in …
Rating firms lobby while they threaten to downgrade U.S.
WASHINGTON — The three major credit rating companies that were poised to decide whether to downgrade the nation's top-ranked debt standing are at the same …
What we think: A good cause
The city of Opa-locka has had a very colorful existence, to put it mildly. Chartered on May 14, 1926, as part of the vision of …
So-called drug war merely keeps more young minorities out of schools
As the state of Florida, and the rest of America, continue to grapple with budget cuts, all aspects of corrections and prison costs continue to …
Washington must be made to feel the wrath of the people
Nearly eight months after starting this journey as a writer of opinion, I realize that I actually have a following, that you are reading – …
Politicians don’t keep their promises; don’t deserve our trust
One day, Jesus told his disciples to board a boat and cross over to another shore and that He would join them later. The weather …
Noted commentator and political activist ‘Ricky’ Thomas dies
Armed with a bachelor’s degree in political science that he earned from Florida A&M University in 1956, Richard “Ricky” Thomas set out to change the …