Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 5-22-15
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 5-22-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.
If You’re Black or Brown and Ride a Bike in Tampa, Watch Out: Police Find That Suspicious
By Nusrat Choudhury
Blog of Rights
The Tampa Bay Times’ recent disclosure that police are targeting Blacks who ride bicycles — including children as young as three years old — for dramatically high rates of stops and searches is the latest piece in the nationwide debate about racial profiling that has followed the police-involved deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, and countless others.
Republicans, a Rock, a Hard Place and Obamacare
By Jon Ponder
Pensito Review
The Republican gambit of demonizing Obamacare is starting to backfire — as well it should. The strategy is based on a lie.
Floridalobbyist.gov … who is representing Big Sugar?
By Gimleteye
Eye on Miami
There are 56 lobbyists registered in the Florida database to represent Big Sugar in Tallahassee. There are 40 state senators.
Leaving Publix: Growing wave of longtime Publix customers spurning Florida grocery giant over company’s refusal to support Fair Food…
Staff Report
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
An intriguing new trend is beginning to emerge among once-loyal customers of Publix, and Florida’s hometown grocer would do well to take note.
The EPA’s Clean Power Plan: Setting the Record Straight on the Benefits and Costs
By John Rogers
CleanEnergy Footprints
We’re working hard to set the record straight on disinformation about the Clean Power Plan, the first-ever national limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants under the Clean Air Act.