Progress Florida’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 1-29-16
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida’s popular free Daily Clips service.
Progress Florida’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 1-29-16
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida’s popular free Daily Clips service.
New Evidence Suggesting Racial Profiling on Florida Roadways
By Nusrat Choudhury
Blog Of Rights
Sam Dubose. Walter Scott. Sandra Bland. 2015 showed in terrible and vivid detail how even routine police traffic stops carry the risk of escalating to arrest or the use of force—even lethal force.
City-Based School Districts Would Lead To Massive Inequality
By Kartik Krishnaiyer
The Florida Squeeze
I read with some curiosity on Saturday a Tampa Bay Times article about a proposal to split school districts.
It Is Time To Show State Workers Some Respect
By Andy Madtes
Fight For Florida
Florida is a large and diverse state.
Rubio Vows To Ignore Climate Change In Spite Of Pleas From Mayors Back Home
By Martha Jackovics
Beach Peanuts
Marco Rubio (R-I’m-Not-A-Scientist-Man) told voters in Iowa today that he will not support any policies that deal with climate change.
Florida Pension Fund Raid Benefits Bush Allies
By Jim Bleyer
Floridiocy
Florida’s public pension fund bailed out two prominent Miami developers linked to former governor and presidential hopeful Jeb Bush when it overpaid by tens of millions of dollars for an occupancy-challenged downtown Tampa apartment complex in February, 2014.