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AF-AM News bits – September 2022
By Frederick A. Hurst JAKE OLIVEIRA FOR STATE SENATEState Representative Jake Oliveira’s State Senate campaign has received the endorsement of State Representatives Carlos Gonzalez, Bud Williams, Orlando Ramos, and Mike Finn, as well as Springfield City Councilors Zaida Govan, Tracye Whitfield, Justin Hurst, Victor Davila, Malo Brown and Maria Perez; Springfield School Committee Members Chris…
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AFAM News bits – August 2022
By Frederick A. Hurst “THE PRESIDENT WHO STOOD STILL” If you haven’t yet heard about the above-titled editorial in The Wall Street Journal trashing former President Donald J. Trump, you should look it up on the Web and read it. It is the first major departure of a Ruppert Murdoch organization media outlet from the…
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AF-AM News bits – July 2022
WHY NOT NAME THEM THE “THOMPSON HEARINGS?” If you don’t live in a cave in the middle of nowhere, you must have heard of the January 6th Hearings conducted by the January 6th Committee with Black Congressman Bennie Thompson as its Chairman. Whether or not you watched the hearings, you must have heard or read the…
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AF-AM News bits – June 2022
$500 THOUSAND TO STONE SOUL!? I have nothing against the Stone Soul Festival or the people who organize and run it. But when Mayor Sarno announced he was giving the organization $500,000 of federal government money to run what, for the most part, is a community festival (and a good and fun one at that),…
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AF-AM News bits
CEE JACKSON AND THE DISAPPEARING CITY CONTRACT How strange. Ray Jordan passes and Cee Jackson mysteriously loses a Springfield city contract to provide security service for the Mason Square library and the city parking garage. Even stranger is how it happened by way of some mysterious person named “Jason Ray” who has yet to be…
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SPRINGFIELD – For Coach William Sweidel, the defining moment of the men’s soccer season at Springfield Technical Community College didn’t come from a single goal, win or playoff result. Instead, it came from a realization. “I think this kind of experience,” Sweidel said, gesturing toward the table where he sat alongside MILE advisor Melvin Tejada…
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