Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 10-2-15
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 10-2-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.
Who Is Taking The Minimum Wage Challenge, And Why?
By Brook Hines
The Florida Squeeze
It takes a lot of time and energy to be poor. That’s why the Minimum Wage Challenge set out by the SEIU to call attention for the need to raise the minimum wage is so important — and so incredibly well thought out.
Rights Restoration is Still a Problem in Florida
By Jessica Chiappone
Blog Of Rights
In 1988 I was arrested and subsequently convicted of conspiracy to possess cocaine in New York.
FPL violates Endangered Species Act at Turkey Point: Who will sue?
By Gimleteye
Eye On Miami
Information provided by the Miami-Dade County government to Citizens Allied for Safe Energy, Inc. (CASE), a Florida non-profit corporation, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, reveals an 80% decline in number of threatened American crocodile nests in FPL’S Turkey Point Cooling Canal System in Homestead, FL.
Marco Rubio Recycles His Old “Outsider” Campaign
By Martha Jackovics
Beach Peanuts
Now that Jeb! Bush insists on illustrating almost on a daily basis that he is indeed NOT the smart Bush, Marco Rubio is quietly waiting in the wings as the beltway press begins their now stale “Rubio fresh face” narrative all over again.
Jeb Bush’s Energy Plan Doesn’t Even Mention Renewables
By Samantha Page
ThinkProgress
Natural gas represents America’s “energy revolution,” and the way to economic growth is to deregulate, according to Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who unveiled his energy plan Tuesday during a speech in Pennsylvania.