For one Wesley Chapel teenage entrepreneur, every Friday is Black Friday. In conjunction with her online store selling T-shirts that promote positive messages for black teenagers, Janiah Hinds also posts a video every week of someone who is important in black history. She begins each video with “Welcome to Black Friday…” The 15-year-old, who lives in Country Walk and will … [Read more...]
New Tampa Road Projects Still On The Way!
A new roundabout for Highwoods Preserve Pkwy., a new coat of paving for New Tampa Blvd. and a number of new enhancements for Tampa Palms Blvd. remain in the New Tampa/District 7 pipeline for Fiscal Year 2021, according to Tampa City Council member Luis Viera. Issues like lawsuits and Covid-19 have slowed some of the projects down. “They’re coming, though,” Viera says. … [Read more...]
Outside The Box, Inside The Pod?
Although Hillsborough County is giving parents three choices for the upcoming fall semester, it really comes down to two choices — learn in a traditional classroom with other students, restoring the social interaction and face-to-face contact that are the stalwarts of education; or learn in a more isolated and individual-based online format at home that makes it easier to avoid … [Read more...]
Masks, Bars & The Response To My Call For Help
After I wrote about the aftermath of the George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks killings in our June 9 and July 7 Wesley Chapel issues and our June 23 New Tampa issue, I was very pleased at the number of emails/letters I received from both black and white reader — of, apparently, a number of different races, religions and political viewpoints — who appreciated my take on the current … [Read more...]
Parents Have Tough School Choices To Make
Schools are not just re-opening this fall, they have to re-open. The President tweets it; the Governor repeats it. With the rising and record number of positive Covid-19 cases and deaths in Florida seemingly finding no ceiling, that leaves parents with one of the toughest decisions — whether to send their children back to brick-and-mortar schools or have them learn … [Read more...]
