BY MARKASHIA C. JETER OUTLOOK STAFFWRITER Rep. Marti Coley, R Tallahassee, says she believes it will be a disservice to the community and to former legislator Gwen Cherry that the Gwen Cherry Child Care Center be closed due to recent budget cuts. The center will close its doors April 30. The Department of Education has decided to not fund the center as a means to save capital after the recent budget cuts. Members of the Florida House of Representatives met...

REGINALD ALCEUS OUTLOOK STAFFWRITER Not a single seat in Florida A & M University’s Lee Hall Auditorium was left available as students, as well as local parents and children, flocked to view national radio host and author Michael Baisden and George Willborn March 2. Baisden brought his “One Million Mentors to Save Our Kids” campaign to FAMU’s campus, holding a town meeting to discuss the importance of mentoring children for the preservation and...

BY DOMINIQUE SHAW OUTLOOK STAFFWRITER Meredith Clark Meredith Clark is associate editor for the Tallahassee Democrat . She has been fulfilling her position since May 2007. Clark completed her internship with the Tallahassee Democrat, which she received through Florida A&M University’s School of Journalism and Graphic Communication. “It’s challenging every day and I learn something new,” Clark said. “There is never a boring day.” Clark...

LAKELAND — In Webster’s Dictionary, perfection is defined as: “Somebody or something that reaches the highest attainable standard.” For the 2009-10 Rickards High boys basketball team, the word “perfection” surely applies, as on March 4, they completed a dream season with a 70-46 rout of two-time defending Class 3A state champion Pine Crest High of Fort Lauderdale in the state title game here in the Lakeland Center. The title is the third all-time...

Dr. Ray Mobley & Claudette Harrell Hope for Haiti Third in Series Two-thirds of all Haitians depend on the agriculture sector to earn a living that involves mainly small-scale subsistence farming, which is vulnerable to damage from frequent natural disasters and the scourge of seemingly irreparable and widespread deforestation. To augment crop production to feed its people, animal rearing has become one of the most important contributors to the economy...

Special to the Capital Outlook In only a few days, on March 2, the Florida Legislature will reconvene.  When the lawmakers return, all can expect a long list of weighty issues to await them again this year: budget cuts, unemployment, off-shore drilling, health care and more. As the nation still tries to regain its economic balance, this city is bracing for more budget cuts and skyrocketing costs.  According to Florida Trend magazine, it is projected that...

By REGINALD ALCEUS Outlook Staff Writer ESTRELITTA REDMON Physician Estrelitta Redmon. M.D., is the medical director and vice president of the Staff Model for Capital Health Plan.  Married to Gregory S. Redmon, Esq., she is the mother to Victor and Carissa Redmon. She graduated from Florida High (now the Florida State University School) in June 1978. She then attended Florida A&M University; there, she received a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy (summa...

By REGINALD ALCEUS Outlook Staff Writer Raymond Alcide Joseph is a distinguished looking man who said he usually keeps his emotions to himself. Yet, he told a crowd in Tallahassee last week that the tears flowed publicly when he saw that the Jan. 14 earthquake had wiped away more than 90 percent of his native Haiti. He had just left his native land a week earlier, where he saw the devastation for himself while touring Port au Prince with a congressional delegation...