February 2020 – Page 5 – Capital Outlook

Getting diabetes as we get older – there is good news!

February 11, 2020

Glenn Ellis More and more, I am finding many people who as they enter their 6th decade, are finding new aches and pains that never existed before. Increasingly, many are finding something else that never existed before: diabetes. For most of these people, after a lifetime of enjoying reasonably healthy

Aggies next to challenge FAMU’s home win streak

February 11, 2020

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer Apart from the decades-old rivalry, coach Robert McCullum knew his FAMU men’s basketball team was in for a tough test from Bethune-Cookman University. As it turned out, the Rattlers needed every point they got from Nasir Core at the free-throw line in the

Rattlers driven by pride this baseball season

February 11, 2020

By Oldens Lafortune Outlook writer As cliché as it might seems, FAMU baseball coach Jamey Shouppe is using a simple motto to inspire his team this season. In fact, all he wants the Rattlers to do this season is focus on one word – pride. Never mind how passé as

Sprint, long jump duos cap productive meet

February 11, 2020

By Bob Thomas Seminoles.com LUBBOCK, Texas – Florida State’s indoor track & field teams capped a productive weekend at the Texas Tech Invitational last Saturday. The 12th-ranked women likely secured two more NCAA Indoor Championship qualifying marks, while the top-ranked men fortified two qualifying positions in the long jump. Junior

Changing the dial

February 4, 2020

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer Darius “Doc” Baker stood in front of a crowd that included government officials who came to help celebrate the launching of Tallahassee’s newest radio station. Baker’s comments were uncharacteristically short for a man who has big goals for making Hallelujah 95.3 FM Tallahassee’s

Activists recall students’ lunch counter sit-in

February 4, 2020

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer Sixty years later, Rev. Henry Steele still believes that when he and other young people followed the lead of two sisters and staged a sit-in at the Woolworth’s lunch counter it was the right thing to do. In fact, Steele, the son of

Key senate panel backs sentencing changes

February 4, 2020

By Ana Ceballos News Service of Florida The Florida Senate is on the brink of approving a bipartisan bill that would loosen sentencing laws for certain drug-trafficking offenses, a move that has the potential of significantly reducing the state’s prison population. The measure, which would allow for shorter sentences and

First Black geophysicist changing test outcomes at FAMU

February 4, 2020

By Cilicia Anderson Outlook writer When the entire fifth grade class at Parkdale Elementary School in Waco, Texas, failed the state science exam in 2005, the school administration was desperate to get some help. It turned out that a college student had the solution. Edith Davis, who was then a

Inhumane conditions, violence and death represent everyday life at Mississippi’s Parchman prison

February 4, 2020

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The conditions at Mississippi’s Parchman prison make it one of the worst detention facilities in the world, according to reform advocates and human rights organizations. Death and violence are rampant, many inmates are without beds, and electricity, plumbing, and fundamental human

States sue to stop changes to food stamps program

February 4, 2020

Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from NorthStarNewsToday.com Fourteen states and the District of Columbia have filed a federal lawsuit to prevent the Trump Administration from cutting off nearly 700,000 Americans from participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program under new, more restrictive guidelines they have proposed that will