Best of the Blogs: All Abuzz

Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 1-15-16
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 1-15-16
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.

Rick Scott’s Idea Of “Living The Dream” Still Doesn’t Include Most Floridians
By Martha Jackovics
Beach Peanuts
Rick Scott delivered yet another empty State of the State address today and if you missed it, well, you really didn’t.

The Great Surplus Myth – Redux
By Dr. Rich Templin
Fight For Florida
Once again, the media is all abuzz and many in the Florida Legislature are absolutely giddy at the prospect of what they call a budget surplus this year. 

This is Florida, not Guantánamo*
By Emily Chow
Blog Of Rights
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and desperate measures were taken during the last month of 2015 to call attention to the inhumane treatment that’s ongoing in our detention of civil immigration detainees.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Hearing in Homestead, continues today 
By Gimleteye
Eye On Miami
Yesterday in Homestead Florida, there was an extraordinary public hearing involving the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Supreme Court Declares Florida’s Death Penalty Sentencing Scheme Unconstitutional
By Ian Millhiser
ThinkProgress
The scheme Florida uses to sentence people to die is unconstitutional, according to an 8-1 decision handed down by the Supreme Court on Tuesday.