Best of the Blogs: Calling Dibs

Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 6-12-15
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 6-12-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.

“Fantasyland” Protest Calls Out GOP Clown Car Economics
By Brook Hines
The Florida Squeeze
The “Florida Deserves Better” than Fantasyland action was held Tuesday, June 2 outside of the hotel where Rick Scott held his “cattle call” for GOP candidates to strut their campaigns in front of monied-up interests like the Chamber of Commerce and their members.

A Proposal For A Livable Wage For Alachua County Workers
By The Alachua County Labor Coalition
Fight For Florida
Throughout the nation a movement has been fomenting around the need for a living wage.

Facing NextEra’s Mr. Hyde in Florida
By Toni Nelson
CleanEnergy Footprints
Which is the true face of NextEra Energy?

Jeb ‘Looks Weaker And Weaker’
By Jon Ponder
Pensito Review
The Cook Political Report represents the gold standard in political polling and prognosticating. 

How Your Taxes Help Inflate The Value Of Coastal Properties Threatened By Climate Change
By Joe Romm
ThinkProgress
Taxpayers are propping up wildly-inflated coastal property values. At some point, we’ll stop doing that, and coastal property values will crash.