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Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 1-8-16
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 1-8-16
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.

Workers’ Voice Tour to turn spotlight on Wendy’s, March 2 – 13!
Coalition Of Immokalee Workers
This coming March 2-13, farmworkers and thousands of consumer allies will be mobilizing to bring Wendy’s — the lone holdout among the big five fast-food companies of Yum Brands, McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway, and Wendy’s — into the Fair Food Program! 

Florida Redistricting: The Process Is Broken And It Is Time For A Change
By Matthew Isbell
MCI Maps
If you were waiting for more evidence that an independent or bipartisan redistricting commission is needed in Florida, the last several months have proved it.

Solar Installations Raise Property Values, According to New Research
By Alissa Jean Schafer
CleanEnergy Footprints
Most people already know that solar energy is good for the environment and can help home and business owners save on their electricity bill.

Marco Rubio Finds Common Ground With Armed Militia In Oregon
By Emily Atkin
ThinkProgress
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) doesn’t like that militants are currently occupying a federal wildlife facility in Oregon.

Jeb Bush Fail: The Everglades
By Gimleteye
Eye On Miami
I wrote the following for a Sierra Club Florida publication in May, 2003 as Jeb Bush was blowing up the federal state partnership to restore the Everglades.