May 2023 – Page 5 – Capital Outlook

Sanders hurdles roadblocks on the way to becoming TFD chief

May 31, 2023

Eugene Sanders is the new chief of Tallahassee Fire Department.Photo by St. Clair Murraine Eugene Sanders is the new chief of Tallahassee Fire Department.Photo by St. Clair Murraine By St. Clair MurraineOutlook Staff Writer When City Manager Reese Goad announced late last month that Eugene Sanders would be the next

Belgian wins Tallahassee Tennis Challenger title

May 5, 2023

Belgian Zizou Bergs defeated defending champion Tung-Lin Wu 7-5, 6-2 Sunday to capture the Tallahassee Challenger championship Sunday at Forestmeadows. “The key was the serve and return and to be the aggressive one,” Bergs said afterward. “I get a little bit of breathing room now as I have (ATP) points

Jumper gets first collegiate win for FSU

May 5, 2023

Curtis Williams Special to the Outlook BATON ROUGE, La. — Florida State’s Curtis Williams recorded a personal best and his first-ever collegiate win in the long jump at the LSU Alumni Invitational in Baton Rouge on Saturday. Williams’ leap of 7.87 meters topped an outstanding field, and teammate Jaiden Rollins

Two former TCC assistants join Cabrera on Northwestern State’s staff

May 5, 2023

Hayden Harkins was lead recruiter for several TCC players who helped lead the team to a share of the Panhandle Conference title this past season.TCC photo by Andrae Ransom Two coaches who served different tenures as assistant coaches at Tallahassee Community College will join former head coach Rick Cabrera’s staff

Women’s relay team paces FAMU top finishers at Tech meet

May 5, 2023

Shaniya Berry carries the baton early for the FAMU women 4×100-meter relay team, which won the event at the Georgia Tech Invitational last weekend.Photo submitted by FAMU athletics Special to the Outlook ATLANTA — Some leaped their farthest, while others ran their fastest. The Florida A&M track and field team

What brings me hope

May 5, 2023

Grandparents can make a tremendousdifference in the lives of their grandchildren Davon Clark (left), who said he was born with crack-cocaine in his system, with his grandmother Minnie Ford and Rosalind Tompkins.Photo submitted As I prepared for a Hope Immersion Workshop for the Grandparents as Parents (GaP) group, I thought

Shield denied for AHCA chief in trans case

May 5, 2023

Jason Weida By Dara KamNews Service of Florida A federal appeals court rejected a request to shield the secretary of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration from testifying in a lawsuit challenging the state’s prohibition on Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care for transgender people. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit want

Celebrating Financial Literacy Month: Lendistry CEO Everett Sands pioneers with scientific brilliance

May 5, 2023

Everett K. Sands has been teaching financial literacy for several years.Photo submitted By Kenneth MillerInglewood Today “Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise”—I Rise (last verse) Maya Angelou Everett K. Sands, the Chief Executive Officer of Lendistry, life

DeSantis is rolling back decades of progress on Black civil rights; it’s time to fight back

May 5, 2023

Adora Obi Nweze Since taking office, Gov. Ron DeSantis has waged a calculated assault on the rights of Black Floridians. If our community doesn’t fight back with the “fierce urgency of now” invoked by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., our children and grandchildren will likely face a bleak future

‘Do something!’

May 5, 2023

We need an Emmett Till moment Dr. Valda Crowder “Do something” was the plea from Dr. Jason Smith whose medical team treated eight injured in the first of two mass shootings in Louisville, Kentucky in one week. The surgeon’s remarks about an April 10 incident which also left five dead