January 2021 – Page 6 – Capital Outlook

Herston named to Team USA coaching staff for 2021 World University Games

January 8, 2021

Keith Herston (left) is in his third year as an assistant coach at FSU.Photo courtesy FSU athletics Florida State track and field assistant coach Keith Herston was named Team USA horizontal jumps assistant coach for the 2021 World University Games in Chengdu, China. “I’m thrilled to be selected as an

MLB ‘Unfiltered Series’ features conversations on diversity, equity and inclusion

January 8, 2021

Katy Feeney, one the first and most respected females in baseball, chats with Monte Irvin, a trailblazer for Black players in baseball, in 2016.Photo special to the Outlook By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Major League Baseball’s Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion held its annual

FAMU’S SWAC football schedule puts Rattlers in revival matchups

January 8, 2021

FAMU football will kick off the 2021 season on Sept. 5 in the Orange Blossom Classic.Photo by St. Clair Murraine By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer FAMU’s first football season in the Southwestern Athletic Conference will revive a couple of longstanding rivalries that date back decades. The schedule actually

Ask Judge Smith

January 8, 2021

Zapruder film captures gunshots in Dealey Plaza J. Layne Smith Judge J. Layne Smith revisits the case in John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Here is Part 4 of his series: Dealey Plaza is a 3.1-acre city park on the west edge of downtown Dallas, Texas, where Elm Street, Main Street, and

Inadequate COVID-19 relief passed by Congress akin to “sending firefighters in to clear up embers”

January 8, 2021

Marc H. Morial “I wish they would put themselves — the White House and Congress and everybody else making these decisions — in the shoes of us, the normal working people, who need help due to no fault of our own. I’m asking to be able to keep my apartment.

We are so fortunate

January 8, 2021

Larry Robinson As we prepare to celebrate the coming of a new year, let us first give thanks that we made it through 2020 and give prayers for those not so fortunate. The fact that we are privileged to witness yet another day illuminated by Florida A&M University’s Eternal Flame

Against the Grain II

January 8, 2021

We never realized our parents were rich Vaughn Wilson Growing up, while we didn’t live in mansions and drive fancy cars and take lavish vacations, we were indeed rich. Watching shows like “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” and “MTV’s Cribs” we often dreamed of how nice it would be

Experts become focus in battle over gun law

January 8, 2021

Pradeep Bhide, a Florida State University College of Medicine professor who has spent nearly four decades as a developmental neuroscientist, is one of the state’s experts in a gun law squabble.Photo special to the Outlook By Dara Kam News Service of Florida A legal battle over a Florida law that

Fried wants National Guard to help with vaccine

January 8, 2021

Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried News Service of Florida Staff Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried called on Gov. Ron DeSantis to mobilize the National Guard to help distribute COVID-19 vaccines. In a letter to DeSantis last Wednesday, Fried said distribution has been characterized in media reports as “very chaotic” and that

Hurricane toll suspension fuels battle

January 8, 2021

Damage caused by Sally damaged has forced the shutdown of the Pensacola Bay Bridge.Photo special to the Outlook By Jim Saunders News Service of Florida Bondholders last week asked a circuit judge to quickly order the Florida Department of Transportation to reinstate toll collections on a controversial Panhandle bridge where