October 2022 – Capital Outlook

Seminoles predicted to finish ninth in ACC basketball

October 28, 2022

Brooke Wyckoff By Stephen StoneSeminoles.com Florida State women’s basketball team has been picked to finish ninth in the Blue Ribbon Panel ACC Predicted Order of Finish. The prediction was announced last Wednesday night on the new show ACC PM on the ACC Network. Freshman guard Ta’Niya Latson was one of

Hamilton, Jones celebrated with ACC’s UNITE Award

October 28, 2022

Leonard HamiltonMorgan M. Jones By Chuck WalshSeminoles.com Florida State head men’s basketball Coach Leonard Hamilton and former women’s basketball standout Morgan M. Jones have been honored by the Atlantic Coast Conference as recipients of the 2022 ACC UNITE Award. The award was created in 2021 to celebrate individuals affiliated with

Arkansas-Pine Bluff’s coaching change presents some unknown for Rattlers

October 28, 2022

Coach Willie Simmons will be looking for his 51st win as a head coach.Photo by St. Clair Murraine By St. Clair MurraineOutlook Staff Writer As if homecoming didn’t come with enough distractions coach Willie Simmons has to get his FAMU football team ready to face the unknown that Arkansas-Pine Bluff

Ayala challenges Moody in ‘long-shot’ bid

October 28, 2022

Aramis Ayala By Jim TurnerNews Service of Florida Former Orlando-area State Attorney Aramis Ayala is making a “long-shot” bid to unseat Republican Attorney General Ashley Moody, saying a key issue is the independence of Florida’s top legal officer. But as with other contests this year for state Cabinet seats, the

State draws challenges over pot license

October 28, 2022

By Dara KamNews Service of Florida Weeks after state health officials selected a Suwannee County man to receive a long-awaited medical marijuana license earmarked for a Black farmer, applicants who lost out on joining Florida’s growing cannabis industry are challenging the decision. The Florida Department of Health on Sept. 21

Dunn, Lawson divided on abortion, loan forgiveness

October 28, 2022

Congressmen Neal Dunn (left) and Al Lawson didn’t see eye to eye on any of the issues they debated.NSF photo by Ryan Dailey By Ryan DaileyNews Service of Florida Facing off on issues such as abortion, the war in Ukraine and student-loan forgiveness, Democratic Congressman Al Lawson and Republican Congressman

Calling out global anti-Blackness

October 28, 2022

Julianne Malveaux In Los Angeles, City Council President Nury Martinez resigned both her Council Presidency and later her seat after someone leaked vile racist sentiments that she shared with members of a Latinx cabal that included other council members, Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo. Also present was the now-resigned

Some politicians confuse freedom with irresponsibility

October 28, 2022

Jesse Jackson Sr. As extreme weather caused floods in Kentucky, collapse of the water system in Jackson Mississippi, and the savage destruction of central Florida – to say nothing of fires and drought and a growing water shortage in the West – we ought to agree on two simple realities:

Separating fact from fiction

October 28, 2022

David W. Marshall Finding a fact-based reason to distrust the government as an institution is not difficult. When referring to conspiracies, the Tuskegee Experiment, which started in 1932 in rural Alabama, was a secret plan by the U.S. government to medically harm its own people. The Tuskegee syphilis study is

TCC Foundation announces celebrity chef for Cleaver and Cork 2023

October 28, 2022

Chef Michael Symon Special to the Outlook Tallahassee Community College Foundation will welcome award-winning chef Michael Symon to Tallahassee for its eighth annual Cleaver and Cork event. Symon is also known for being a television personality, author and philanthropist. Symon cooks with soul. Growing up in a Greek and Sicilian