Author: Nya Ramirez | Staff Reporter

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Florida’s ‘First Step Act’ Initiative

Speaker Paul Ryan signing First Step Act. Photo Courtesy of Google. The United States Congress passed and President Trump signed into law, the “Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act” or the “FIRST STEP Act” in November of 2018. This law provides several significant changes to the […]

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Bill would require schools to teach CPR

Lexi Sima, Senator Perry E. Thurston and Shawn Sima after discussing Senate Bill 366. Photo Submitted by Marie Rattigan. Imagine getting a phone call that your child is laying lifeless on the floor. You drop everything in a panic and begin to run to her rescue. The paramedics arrive, and you […]

Opinions

The homeless need more resources

The Kearney Center often cannot accommodate all of the homeless hoping to spend the night. Photo Courtesy of thekearneycenter.com. The capital of Florida is facing an undeniable crisis of underserving a community of local citizens that are in need of better resources. With only one homeless shelter that is overcrowded and […]

Lifestyles

HA2 goes back ‘For the Juketure’

Members of House Arrest 2 Championship Dance Team after a performance.  Photo Submitted by Jazmine Logan. Students, family and friends lined up outside of the Lawson Center Friday waiting for the doors to open on what members of House Arrest 2 Championship Dance Team called their biggest show of the […]