Finally, admitting that he took a jab at Obama’s teenage drug use, ardent Clinton supporter, Bob Johnson has issued a statement of apology to Obama for his “inappropriate” remarks.

In a statement, the BET founder said: "I'm writing to apologize to you and your family personally for the un-called-for comments I made at a recent Clinton event.” Johnson added that in his enthusiasm to support Clinton, “I made some very inappropriate remarks for which I am truly sorry. I hope that you will accept this apology. Good luck on the campaign trail.”

The apology comes after Sunday’s campaign event for Clinton in South Carolina, when Johnson said, "As an African-American, I am frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in Black issues, when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood that, I won't say what he was doing, but he said it in his book... When they have been involved; to say that these two people would denigrate the accomplishment of civil rights marchers, men and women who were hosed, beaten and bled, and some died... To say and to expect us now all of a sudden to say we are attacking a black man.”

It has been a whirlwind of perspectives and analyses surrounding New York Senator Hillary Clinton’s ‘tears’ since she won the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday night. People are questioning whether she was genuinely crying or sticking to the script. Whichever one it was, it worked!

Several polls had Illinois Senator Barack Obama leading Clinton by as many as 14 points, in what was shaping up to be a landslide victory for him. So, it was no wonder that Obama supporters watched in shock when Clinton maintained a steady lead as the ballots were being counted. She ultimately won by two percentage points.

This caused Kendall Jamaican resident, Jaylene Philbert to question if there was perhaps some tampering with the voting machines in New Hampshire. “The polls could have never been so wrong!” Philbert exclaimed.

Conspiracy theories say the pollsters jacked up numbers to prevent some of Obama's supporters (many of whom were Independents) from coming out to vote, or ultimately voting for John McCain on the Republican side. This begs the question: Was it because Hillary cried or had the polls lied?

The many supporters of Barak Obama are disappointed that he narrowly lost the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday night to Hillary Clinton. Clinton received 39 percent of the votes cast and Obama 37 percent, while John Edwards received 17 percent. Obama’s supporters disappointment is fueled by the fact that most of the credible polls in the country were in agreement that Obama would have won the primary by at least 7 points and as high as 14 points. Some are wondering what went wrong with the polls. This has made a Kendall Jamaica resident Jaylene Philbert question if there was perhaps some tampering with the voting machines in New Hampshire. “The polls could never been so wrong!” Phibert exclaimed.

However, various political analysts, who have been attempting to analyze why the results were so very different from what the polls projected, claim that the unexpected defeat of Obama by Clinton was due to the fact that women turned out in large numbers to support Clinton. The arguments are being put forward that women responded to Clinton’s apparent emotional flaw on Monday before the primary when she was on the brink of tears talking about how much she wanted to be the country’s president. Other analysts said women responded to vote for Clinton because she was bashed by most of the media and some prominent television political analysts.

Some people in the Caribbean community think that the incidence of Clinton on the verge of tears in full view of national and international TV cameras was an act. Gaylle Drisden, a Hollywood resident originating from Martinique asked, “Can you believe Hillary just sitting down and crying like that? It was an act to win sympathy votes and she did get it. It is sad that Americans can be swayed by crocodile tears over a man that wants to make something really different in America.”

Despite placing 38^th in public education spending, Florida's schools ranked 14^th in the country. Many thought the state’s economic woes may have negatively affected Florida schools’ placement.

However, according to the Education Week magazine’s report card issued on Tuesday, Florida gets a C+ grade.

Florida also placed 7^th in the kindergarten through 12th grade achievement, moving up from 31^st last year. The National grade was a depressing D+, but the state earned a C-grade in that category.

Though the state remains below average it has improved in its overall ranking because of "very strong improvements in recent years and relatively small poverty gaps."

Education Week ranks Florida:

- Overall: C-plus, 14th.
- Chance for success: C-plus, 32nd.
- Kindergarten-12th grade achievement: C, 7th.
- Standards, assessments and accountability: A-minus, 12th.
- Transitions and alignment: C-plus, 12th.
- Teaching profession: B, 4th.
- School finance, C-minus, 38th.

Controversial activist, Rev. Al Sharpton visited Dunbar Village in West Palm Beach on Monday and voiced his concern about the threat of gentrification in that area. Gentrification is the practice by which low cost neighborhoods undergo physical renovation that increases property value and usually displaces the prior lower income residents. This has been an ongoing situation in communities like Miami’s Overtown and Fort Lauderdale’s Sistrunk.

Sharpton was concerned that this might be the fate of Dunbar Village - a community which gained national attention after a woman and her son were brutally raped and assaulted in their apartment by a gang of teens.

He questioned why more support and resources have not been given to the Dunbar Village community and said he wants to show that “we can save the Dunbar Villages. We cannot surrender to thugs.”

Sharpton said he would return in the next 30 days, hold a town hall meeting and spend the night there.