Best of the Blogs: Tipping Point

Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 8-21-15
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 8-21-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.

When Reapportionment Meant The Most
By Kartik Krishnaiyer
The Florida Squeeze
This week’s redistricting Special Session is the latest in a long run of map drawing and redrawing exercises the legislature has had to undertake since the Justice Department began strong enforcement of the Voting Rights Act in 1991 vis-a-vis minority-access and majority-minority districts.

There was that time JEB! forced single mothers to post their sexual history in the newspaper…
By Vin Fl
SemDem
This man cannot be president.

Extreme Rubio: Force A Child To Give Birth, Because She’s No Longer A Fetus In Need Of Protection
By Martha Jackovics
Beach Peanuts
While the media has kept everyone distracted with the reality clown show that is Donald Trump, much of the focus has been taken off the rest of the GOP candidates. 

Longtime Publix shopper calls for transparency, action from Florida grocer!
By Staff
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Today, as a part of our weeklong “Tipping Point” series, we want to share a letter to Publix from a Florida customer.

Stopping the Presses
By Jim Bleyer
Floridiocy
More than 200,000 West Coast Floridians hear the familiar pre-dawn thud of the Tampa Tribune landing on their driveway.