Best of the Blogs: Capping Off

Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 9-11-15
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 9-11-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.

Rick Scott Proves His War On Planned Parenthood Is About Politics, Not “Life”
By Martha Jackovics
Beach Peanuts
Rick Scott’s ongoing war on the state’s Planned Parenthood clinics has now culminated in fines for clinics in St. Petersburg, Naples and Fort Myers, for allegedly performing second-trimester abortions.

Turmoil at the South Florida Water Management District
By Gimleteye
Eye On Miami
The man who would be next U.S. senator from Florida, Gov. Rick Scott, is surely the most tone-deaf in Florida history.

Customer to Publix: “I don’t like Publix’s hardnosed position on farmworkers”…
Coalition Of Immokalee Workers
Even though we’ve already wrapped up our Tipping Point series — capping off a week of letters and articles from consumers with a round-up of tweets for Publix — messages from the Fair Food Nation continue to stream in!

On Labor Day, Talk About #RaisetheWage
By Molly Moon Neitzel
Fight For Florida
Labor Day not only reminds us of the struggles American workers endured throughout history, but also of the ongoing struggle for fair wages in Florida, and across the country.

300 Businesses Oppose Drilling In The Atlantic: ‘It’s A Reckless Gamble’
By Katie Valentine
ThinkProgress
For coastal companies that depend on a healthy stream of tourists to keep business healthy, the prospect of drilling in the Atlantic Ocean means one thing: spills that will sully beaches and drive visitors away.