Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 8-14-15
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 8-14-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.
Rick Scott Changes The Rules, Then Claims Planned Parenthood Isn’t Compliant
By Martha Jackovics
Beach Peanuts
If anyone thought Rick Scott’s “investigation” into Planned Parenthood was anything other than a political witch hunt, he certainly made it abundantly clear they were wrong last week when he announced his “findings.”
Jeb! fail
By Gimleteye
Eye On Miami
Jeb! Bush can’t outrun history.
Florida Republicans’ Last Ditch Effort To Preserve Gerrymandered Districts
By Kira Lerner
ThinkProgress
Two Florida Republican Party chairman filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday claiming the state’s redistricting law, which prohibits lawmakers from drawing districts that favor a certain party, violates their First Amendment right to free speech and constitutes “government thought policing.”
The Voting Rights Act at 50 and the Work Still to Be Done
By Nancy Abudu
Blog Of Rights
I first started my career with the ACLU as a voting rights attorney with our National office.
6 Things Every American Should Know About the Clean Power Plan
By Gina McCarthy
EPA Connect
Today, President Obama will unveil the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Clean Power Plan—a historic step to cut the carbon pollution driving climate change.