Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 4-24-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.
Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 4-24-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.
Riding While Black in Tampa
By Joyce Hamilton Henry
Blog Of Rights
This past weekend, the Tampa Bay Times reported on evidence that Blacks are being racially profiled and over-policed by law enforcement in Tampa.
Killing Us Softly: On Abortion We’re One Compromise Away From Third World Status
By Brook Hines
The Florida Squeeze
This week I traveled to Tallahassee to “tell my abortion story” to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The Deepwater Horizon Disaster Was Five Years Ago Today. Here’s What We Still Don’t Know.
By Katie Valentine and Emily Atkin
ThinkProgress
It’s officially been five years since BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster, a well blowout and subsequent oil spill that caused the deaths of 11 men.
Rick Scott’s Medicaid Debacle: “Like King Midas In Reverse”
By Martha Jackovics
Beach Peanuts
Rick Scott has taken his years-long fight to keep people from getting access to health care to monumental levels of absurdity recently in Florida.
In visit to Everglades, Obama will address climate change, a term Rick Scott would like to ban
By Meteor Blades
Daily Kos
On Wednesday, traditionally Earth Day although many Earth Day events were held this past weekend, President Obama will be visiting the Florida Everglades to deliver a speech on the impacts of climate change on the environment, the economy and our health.