Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 3-13-15
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 3-13-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.
Florida GOP Once Again Blocking Imaginary Threats While Preserving The Real Ones
By Martha Jackovics
Beach Peanuts
As Floridians struggle to get by without jobs or a decent wage, health care, clean air, water, and the opportunity to vote, it’s good to know the Republicans in the legislature have their priorities at heart.
In Florida, Big Sugar’s Republican proxies stare down the Angry Bees
By Gimleteye
Eye On Miami
At the Governing Board of the South Florida Water Management District today, Republican proxies of Big Sugar — that would be the board appointed by Gov. Rick Scott to fulfill his mission — will be facing the Angry Bees.
Legislative Update Week 1: Discriminate Right Out of the Gate
By Michelle Richardson
Blog Of Rights
The Florida Legislature completed its first week of the 2015 session on Friday, and we are sorry to report that among its first activities, it advanced a bill that would discriminate against transgender individuals in public accommodations like bathrooms, locker rooms and other places where there is an expectation of privacy.
Committee Meeting For The Secrecy Bill, March 4, 2015
By Jennifer Proffitt
Fight For Florida
The Florida Senate continued its push this week to take university job searches for presidents, provosts, and deans out of the sunshine so that these critical decisions could be made in the backrooms and cocktail bars of state politics.
Utility Company To Buy Coal Plant Just To Shut It Down
By Katie Valentine
ThinkProgress
State utility Florida Power and Light (FPL) wants to buy an old coal plant in Florida just to shut it down, a move that it says would prevent nearly 1 million tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere each year.