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2010 Primary Elections: Vote for your future!

smorgan@cnweeklynews.com (Sonia Morgan) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:06:01 GMT

National Weekly endorsements and recommendations

With early voting underway since August 9, the 2010 Primary Elections have begun in Florida, though the official day for elections is August 24. In South Florida, several candidates are on the ballot running for various offices from the U.S. Senate to county school board.

Over the past few weeks, the National Weekly has been following the campaigns of the candidates reflected in newspapers, political advertisements, candidate forums, and

Is Wyclef Haiti’s hope?

smorgan@cnweeklynews.com (Sonia Morgan) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:55:11 GMT

Wyclef Jean

Since Grammy-winning musician Wyclef Jean declared his intent to run for president of Haiti, it has stirred debate especially within the Haitian-American community and among the stars.

Jean, who has been aggressively helping his home country through his Yele Haiti foundation, long before the January 12 earthquake, is known as a

Hundreds of Broward teachers get jobs back

smorgan@cnweeklynews.com (Sonia Morgan) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:48:53 GMT

Over 500 Broward teachers will be back in the classroom for the fall term, since the federal $26 billion stimulus package got the green light from the House of Representatives on Tuesday, Aug. 10.

Broward expects to get about $54 million of the $10 billion allotted for education, allowing not only the rehiring of laid-off teachers, but secretaries, bus drivers, maintenance workers and custodians.

The education

Red-light cams now up in Fort Lauderdale

smorgan@cnweeklynews.com (Sonia Morgan) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:44:45 GMT

If you run a red light in Fort Lauderdale these days, you are likely to be caught on camera.

The cameras to crack down on red-light runners are up at nine busy intersections according to Fort Lauderdale officials. The intersections are: North Federal Highway at Northeast Eighth St; Northeast 15th Ave at East Sunrise Blvd; State Road 84 at Southwest Ninth Ave; West Sunrise Blvd

Driver’s license renewal a pain

smorgan@cnweeklynews.com (Dr. Garth A. Rose) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:17:53 GMT

Drivers are complaining more about the long wait to get appointments to renew their Florida driver’s license, which became more difficult since the new documentation requirements took effect on January 1 this year.

Broward resident, Harry Foster told the National Weekly of walking into a Fort Lauderdale driver’s license office to renew his license a few days before his birthday in early August and was told he could not have the license renewed without an appointment,

FLORIDA PRIMARIES: Unknowns making an impact

smorgan@cnweeklynews.com (Sonia Morgan) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:53:54 GMT

Bill McCollum

Kendrick Meek

It was not too long ago that Florida attorney general Bob McCollum and U.S. House Representative Kendrick Meek seemed like certain winners in their respective

Spilled oil disappears; BP close to plugging well

smorgan@cnweeklynews.com (Sonia Morgan) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:48:31 GMT

There is surprise and relief that that vast amounts of the spilled oil from the damaged Deepwater Horizon oil rig have disappeared from the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

A new federal report indicates that the oil has been evaporated, burned, skimmed, recovered from the wellhead or dispersed – much of which is in the process of being degraded. A significant amount of this

Gov’t may have plan to help illegal immigrants

smorgan@cnweeklynews.com (Sonia Morgan) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:43:48 GMT

President Barack Obama

At a time when the Arizona immigration law is making illegal immigrants uneasy, a plan for helping them may be afoot.

An internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) memo, “Administrative Alternatives to Comprehensive Immigration Reform” signals that the federal government may be, at the least, considering a plan to legalize some

More high profile extradition requests! What will Golding do?

smorgan@cnweeklynews.com (Sonia Morgan) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:08:58 GMT

Bruce Golding

KINGSTON – With the extradition debacle of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke still fresh in his mind, Prime Minister Bruce Golding may have to tread lightly with a number of other extradition requests, possibly for high profile individuals and politicians, that the United States has sent his way.

U.S. officials say they are looking forward

Miami marks 114 years; founder’s statue unveiled

smorgan@cnweeklynews.com (Sonia Morgan) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:06:14 GMT

It’s been 114 years since Miami gained city status and to mark the occasion, a statue of the “Mother of Miami” was unveiled on Wednesday in her honor.

Amidst fanfare, a black sheet was lifted to reveal the majestic 10-foot-tall bronze statue of Julia Tuttle at the southern end of Bayfront Park, to mark the 114th anniversary the city she founded.

The statue depicts a proud