May 2019 – Capital Outlook

Bedell leaves TCC for Missouri State assistant position

May 7, 2019

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer Since leading the Tallahassee Community College women’s basketball team to a juco national championship last fall, Franqua Bedell’s phone hadn’t stopped ringing with offered to go elsewhere. He hedged for awhile until he got a call from a longtime acquaintance Amaka Agugua-Hamilton,

City moves ahead to finalize Northwood Centre purchase

May 7, 2019

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer While the City of Tallahassee works on narrowing a list of recommended sites for a new Tallahassee Police Department headquarters, it also is expected to finalize its purchase of the Northwood Centre before the end of May. Closing on the 34.51-acre

Award winners recall Stephens’ activism

May 7, 2019

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer Each of the recipients at the Edwina Stephens Community Leaders Award Banquet praised the community advocate Saturday evening for her work that has changed or affected their lives in some way. Stephen, who died in 2011 after doing much

Gillum finds ‘vindication’ in ethics settlement

May 7, 2019

News Service of Florida Andrew Gillum is making hay out of a settlement in the ethics probe that contributed to his narrow loss to Gov. Ron DeSantis in November. Insiders hoping for salacious tidbits about the former Tallahassee mayor’s trips with undercover FBI agents and lobbyists were sorely disappointed last

Rules favor them – not us!

May 7, 2019

By E. Faye Williams, esq. Trice Edney News Wire The much anticipated and long-awaited Mueller Report has been handled in an unbelievable way. We first received four pages of a 22-month study that told us nothing truthfully. Attorney General William Barr led us to believe everybody had been “picking on

The sound of silence: Judges stay mum on politics

May 7, 2019

By Layne Smith Special to the Outlook Q. Judge Smith, why don’t judges comment on political issues and how do judges manage heavy caseloads? Thank you, Alvin. A. Alvin, you’ve asked two excellent questions. Our state constitution deliberately divides the powers of government among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.

Reconnecting with families among issues facing ex-felons

May 7, 2019

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer For 15 years while he was incarcerated, Eugene Mack refused to have his three children visit him in prison. He’s been out for three months now and finds himself in a struggle to re-establish a relationship with his children. The smile on his

Hate crime surge continues with racially motivated burning of Black churches

May 7, 2019

By Marc H. Morial Trice Edney News Wire “A lot of people want to make it a hate thing. Well, we don’t represent hate. We represent love. Togetherness. Peace. Long suffering. Hope. That’s what we’re here today to say, not just to our community, but to our country. Be

Me Too founder: FAMU stop wasn’t ‘a bashing between men and women’

May 7, 2019

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer At one point in Tarana Burke’s fireside chat on sexual violence, the microphone went out in the FAMU Grand Ballroom. By then, Burke had established why she was there for the two hour conversation. “It isn’t a bashing between men and women,” said