Best of the Blogs: Too Toxic

Progress Florida’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 6-3-16
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida’s popular free Daily Clips service.

Progress Florida’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 6-3-16
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida’s popular free Daily Clips service.

Florida Taxpayers And Toxic Waters: The Outrage Is Building
By Gimleteye
Eye On Miami
Today there are places in Florida where water is too toxic to touch.

Marco Rubio Is Back To Remind You That He Has No Principles
By Martha Jackovics
Beach Peanuts
Just when you thought you would never have to hear from Marco Rubio again, he returns.

Swamp Head Brewery Earns Green Spirit Award for Dedication to a Sustainable Florida
By Alissa Jean Schafer
CleanEnergy Footprints
The Sunshine State ranks an unimpressive 46th in the nation’s breweries per capita, according to statistics collected by the National Brewers Association in 2012, and many of these breweries are smaller, focusing on local, craft brews.

Flashback Friday: The Tallahassee Bus Boycott 60 Years On
By Kartik Krishnaiyer
The Florida Squeeze
Sixty years ago this week, two FAMU students sat down in the designated whites only area of a City of Tallahassee bus.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott cries out for Zika assistance, but his fellow Republicans aren’t listening
By Mark Sumner
Daily Kos
Rick Scott is just one of many Republican governors who took their seat by running against those money-grabbers in Washington, despite the fact that Florida residents get back $4.60 for every $1 paid in federal tax.