Saturday, April 27, 2024
For the fourth consecutive year, the Coolbreeze festival has served as a platform to highlight the beauty of art and music in Tallahassee as part of Jazz Appreciation Month. The festival caters to all age groups and strives to “bring together talented artists and musicians from the North Florida area.” […]
The Biden Administration issued a statement in January outlining how Americans could receive free at-home, rapid COVID-19 test kits at their doorstep. The Biden Administration partnered with the United States Postal Service to ensure that the half-billion tests they purchased would be available via the postal services’ website starting Jan. […]
The eviction moratorium was a temporary halt to evictions that began during the pandemic. It ensured that those who couldn’t afford rent at the time weren’t forced to leave their homes as a result of unemployment. In August of last year, the United States Supreme Court ended the Centers for […]
In October of last year, the parents of a student at Deer Lake Middle School filed a lawsuit claiming the district’s LGBTQ policies illegally exclude parents from gender identity discussions, according to WCTV’s Julie Montanaro. The lawsuit alleged that school officials met with their daughter, who previously expressed confusion about […]
Educators may be able to save a buck or two in the near future. Senate Bill 1376, filed by Florida state Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez (R-Doral), would provide an assistance program that would allow Florida teachers to be reimbursed for money spent on classroom supplies. Taylor Brown, a teacher at […]
Red lights aren’t the only traffic signals that indicate for drivers to stop. School bus stop signal arms are included in that as well — and yet people ignore them and drive right by them anyway. According to the Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida, […]
Legislation filed by Florida state Sen. Lauren Book, D-Miami, Senate Bill 248, is also called the “Learning with Dignity Act.” It focuses on school districts making tampons and pads accessible to its students, free of charge, in each school nurse’s office or other physical school facilities. Book last year told […]
As April represents Earth Day month, the Earth Day Virtual Challenge is hosting its third annual free event to see how many times all of its participants as a collective can run, walk or bike the distance of the equator — 24,901 miles — for the entire month. Founder of […]
Florrida A&M University’s newly constructed Center for Access and Student Success (CASS) complex was officially christened at 11 a.m. today with a ribbon cutting ceremony. Tallahassee Mayor John Dailey, who called this ribbon cutting “a momentous occasion,” sat among members of the FAMU Board of Trustees, the vice president of […]
A non-profit farm on Lake Talquin that specializes in goat education, Goat House Farm, offers everything from farm stays to tours and has recently added a new interactive activity to its services: goat yoga. To bring in the first day of spring, Crystal Crowell, the yoga instructor at Goat House […]