Palm Beach County: Test results for residents were reported , leading to a daily positivity rate of %. That’s from % the previous day. Broward County: Test results for residents were reported , leading to a daily positivity rate of %. That’s from % the previous day. Miami-Dade County: Test results for residents were reported , leading to a daily positivity rate of %. That’s from % the previous day. ... Read More
Month: May 2021
Here are 10 things that died when the Florida Legislature left town
ALIMONY: A long-running debate about overhauling Florida’s alimony laws will have to wait at least another year. While the House approved alimony changes, the controversial issue stalled in the Senate. The proposal, as in the past, sought to eliminate what is known as permanent alimony and reduce the duration of alimony. ... Read More
Effort to protect consumer data privacy fails in Florida
Florida, the country’s third most populous state, would have been the latest to enact consumer protections against Big Data’s ability to harvest information about how people conduct their day-to-day lives, including where they shop and eat, what they read and what they share online. The resulting dossier is often bought and sold in a lucrative marketplace that has become an important element of modern commerce. ... Read More
The Unearthed Conscience of Black Fundamentalism
A hard racial line divided conservative white and Black Protestants 100 years ago. It didn’t have to be that way. Seventy-four years ago, Carl F. H. Henry, the first editor of Christianity Today, produced his watershed volume The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism. This work represented Henry’s clarion call for evangelicals to engage with the social ills facing the world, to apply the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith to address the needs of society without being... Read More
Michael Hernandez, who murdered classmate in middle school bathroom stall, dies in prison
It was February 2004 when Hernandez lured his friend, Jaime Gough, also 14, into a bathroom stall at Southwood Middle in Palmetto Bay, a suburban city south of Miami. He stabbed Jaime more than 40 times in a case that shocked South Florida and the nation. ... Read More
A Miami school has become a beacon for anti-vaxxers, drawing parents looking to enroll their kids and teachers looking for work
Things began to change, parents said. Surveillance cameras were installed to record both video and audio, for what David Centner said were security and insurance purposes. Leila Centner once remarked that children should be kept away from windows, for fear of radiation from 5G cell towers, another baseless conspiracy theory. (The windows at the preschool now have electromagnetic frequency “shielding blockers,” David Centner said in response to a question about the school’s 5G... Read More
Do You Follow the Right Jesus?
Four cultural values entice us toward an Americanized messiah instead of the crucified Christ. As pastors immersed in Western culture, it’s difficult to disentangle our view of Jesus from the Americanized identity we value—an identity measured mostly in terms of what looks good, feels good, and does good. The question arises: What does it mean for us to be cross-centered and follow the crucified Jesus in our context? What are the distinctions between the world’s... Read More
Joseph Hatchett, first Black justice on Florida Supreme Court, dies at 88
“His life represents an amazing commitment to fight for justice and equality at a time when the battle for both was stacked against him,” Rosemary Barkett, a former Florida Supreme Court justice and appellate judge, said as part of a January event in which the Florida Supreme Court Historical Society honored Hatchett with a lifetime achievement award. “His life is an example of patience and perseverance and calmness but in the face of daily bouts of injustice and unfairness. As early... Read More
Test your knowledge of current events with our news quiz for the week of April 25
6. On May 13, 1985, a police dropped a bomb on a Philadelphia row house where members of an anti-government group lived. The bomb set off a fire, and the blaze left 11 dead and destroyed more than 60 homes. Recently, what information was revealed that set off anger among the community nearly 35 years after the event? ... Read More
The record of Superintendent Robert Runcie: Accomplishments and exaggerations
Bob Swindell, CEO of the Fort Lauderdale Alliance, made similar claims in 2019. After the South Florida Sun Sentinel pointed out the numbers were false, Chief Communications Officer Kathy Koch acknowledged she had sent Swindell comparison data from 2013, nearly two years after Runcie had started, rather than 2011. ... Read More