COMMENTARY | A little over one year ago, and just weeks before COVID-19 gripped worldwide attention, two Florida state agencies agreed to a remarkable, consequential but barely noticed settlement to a class-action lawsuit that had accused them of illegally kicking eligible people off the state’s Medicaid coverage.
That settlement, enforced by a Jacksonville-based federal judge, included a requirement that the Florida Department of Children and Families and Florida Agency for Health Care Administration go back and review more than 71,000 cases across the state in which the agencies booted people, some of whom have severe disabilities or illness, out of their health care coverage without adequate notice or without a proper eligibility review conducted by state officials.
Feb 25, 2021 By Jim Ash Senior Editor Top Stories
Joseph “Jody” Hudgins
When it convenes March 5 via videoconference, the Board of Governors will weigh a host of issues, from new member benefits and an advertising challenge, to a proposed rule change that could generate significant income for the Bar Foundation.
The latter was suggested by public member Joseph “Jody” Hudgins a Sarasota banker and is contained in a Disciplinary Procedures Committee proposal to amend Rule 5-5.1 Trust Accounts.
The proposed changes to subdivision (g) Interest on Trust Accounts (IOTA) Program, would require eligible financial institutions to provide a minimum interest rate for IOTA accounts and tie the minimum rate to specific indexed rate points.
(INDIANAPOLIS) Today’s Indiana fourth-graders would have to take a civics course in middle
school, under a bill overwhelmingly approved by the Indiana House.
Cicero Representative and former Hamilton Heights Superintendent Tony J. Cook (R) says the bill
plugs an important hole in Indiana’s curriculum. His bill calls for the State Board of Education to
issue standards by next summer. Schools would decide whether to put civics class in sixth,
seventh or eighth grade.
government works. Lafayette Representative Sheila Klinker (D) says voters often ask her how
things are in Washington. And House Majority Leader Matt Lehman (R-Berne) says when he visits
“Even though we have endured the segregation and discrimination that we endured, we excelled because we had a hand up,” Joe told NBC 7.
While Joe will be the first to tell you his experience is different than most Black experiences, it wasn’t without challenges. Both he and his wife, Ernestine, were raised in Detroit.
Ernestine went to segregated schools, and Joe lived in and attended school in a predominantly white community where things weren’t always fair in the classroom.
“Gone are the days when my head is bending low I hear the tender voices calling on old black Joe,” said Joe as he recounted a racially insensitive song his grade school teacher taught students.
Knoxville Biz Ticker: Local entrepreneurs earn $10,500 in Knoxville Area Urban League business pitch contest
The Knoxville News-Sentinel 1/29/2021 Knoxville News Sentinel
Local entrepreneurs earn $10,500 in Knoxville Area Urban League business pitch contest
Five winners of the Knoxville Area Urban League’s business pitch contest have received checks totaling $10,500 for enterprises ranging from health care to art classes.
Mark Isom, the founder and president of Premiere Building Maintenance Corporation, presented the entrepreneurs with checks during Impact Week, a virtual fundraiser held in late 2020 for the Knoxville Area Urban League’s community initiatives, including the 10-week CO.STARTERS training program for entrepreneurs.
Isom provides funding for the program, along with Randy Boyd, founder and executive chairman of Radio Systems Corporation, and his wife, Jenny Boyd.