PROGRESS FLORIDA IN THE NEWS
Mike Haridopolos earns Brevard CC $488 on $152,000 book deal
By Marc Caputo
Miami Herald
After Senate President Mike Haridopolos recently said his unusual book deal with Brevard Community College would earn the school some money, the liberal group Progress Florida took that as a challenge. It asked Brevard how much revenue has been produced by Florida Legislative History and Processes. Grand total: $487.90. That leaves about $151,512 left before Haridopolos book pays off…Progress Florida has dogged Haridopolos for months and launched a website, Dirty Hari, to chronicle every slip and hit.
Brevard CC: $152K Haridopolos book deal nets college $487.90
By Catherine Whittenburg
Tampa Tribune
Related: WMNF Community Radio Tampa audio interview
State Senate President Mike Haridopolos said recently at a Tampa Tiger Bay Club luncheon that while Brevard Community College did pay him $152,000 for penning the e-book Florida History & Legislative Processes, all proceeds from the sale return to the college. So how much has the school received so far? That’s what left-leaning Progress Florida asked BCC recently in an email exchange, some of which PF has kindly provided today to reporters. See BCC’s response below. The short version: a $152K book deal has so far netted the college $487.90.
Mike Haridopolos, author, earns state college $487
By Abel Harding
Florida Times-Union
Related: Capitol News Service: Progress Florida Questions Haridopolos Book
Related: Palm Beach Post: School makes $488 so far on $152,000 Haridopolos book
Related: Florida Capital News: Haridopolos picks up endorsement for GOP Senate nomination
Senate President, and U.S. Senate hopeful, Mike Haridopolos wants to talk about his endorsement from U.S. Rep. Connie Mack this morning. But that news has been overshadowed by a follow up to an Associated Press story about a cushy book deal the Merritt Island lawmaker got from Brevard Community College. After the book made waves around the state - 1 book, 1 copy = $152,000 - the college announced plans to make it available via the Amazon Kindle. That plan has earned the college $487.90, according to an e-mail sent from the school to Progress Florida, a liberal blog that has targeted Haridopolos.
FEATURED STORIES
Scott signs bills boosting private and charter schools
By Zac Anderson
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Education bills signed by Gov. Rick Scott on Monday will deepen public school cutbacks in Florida during the most austere budget year in memory, while providing a boost to private and charter schools.
Scott signs bill linking Florida unemployement benefits to jobless rate
By Dara Kam
Palm Beach Post
Florida is now the only state in the nation to link unemployment benefits to the state's jobless rate under a bill signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott Monday.
Sinking Poll Numbers May Put Florida in Play
By Don Van Natta Jr. and Gary Fineout
New York Times
In the past few weeks, Gov. Rick Scott has traveled around the state extolling the accomplishments of the recent legislative session and promoting his success in pushing Florida down a more conservative, financially sound path.
Florida's Scott Unfazed by the Critics
By Arian Campo-Flores
Wall Street Journal
Gov. Rick Scott swept into office in January vowing to lure businesses, create hundreds of thousands of jobs and make Florida a model of limited government.
Florida could be the real GOP prize
By Susan Page
USA Today
The first steps on the path to the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 seem destined to produce a split decision in a divided party.
FLORIDA POLITICS
U.S. Supreme Court ruling could help Scott's re-election bid
By Gary Fineout
Florida Current
A divided U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision on Monday that guarantees the end of a key part of Florida’s public financing system for campaigns.
Gov. Scott vetoes three bills, including one loosening requirements of assisted living facilities
By Katie Sanders
St. Petersburg Times
Propelled by a Miami Herald investigation that revealed horrific stories of neglect at assisted living facilities, Gov. Rick Scott vetoed a bill that would have eased some reporting requirements for those facilities.
Sarah Palin's emails less valuable than Florida's
By Brian E. Crowley
Crowley Political Report
You should be outraged. These are the prices each state charged recently for public records.
Top lobbying firm announces another expansion
Staff Report
Florida Tribune
One of the top lobbying firms in Tallahassee -- which just saw the departure of one of its key partners -- announced on Monday that it is expanding its operations.
POLITICAL RACES
Florida tea partiers embrace news that Michele Bachmann's running for president
By Marc Caputo
Miami Herald
Michele Bachmann's formal announcement of her candidacy for president was met with this response from Florida tea partiers: Amen.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
Cuba’s oil, our potential mess
By Cammy Clark
Miami Herald
In about five months, Spanish oil giant Repsol is scheduled to begin a risky offshore exploration in Cuba’s North Basin, about 60 to 70 miles from Key West and even closer to ecologically fragile waters of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
In oil drilling gamble, Florida has more to lose than others
By Rick Harper
Pensacola News Journal
President Barack Obama's Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force was created in October of last year in response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
DCA's Buzzett helping plan the end to his department and his time in state government
By Bruce Ritchie
Florida Current
Department of Community Affairs Secretary Billy Buzzett said Monday he plans to quit state employment in October after his department is eliminated but he added that the state's role in growth management won't be eliminated.
Environmentalists want FPL out of Everglades National Park
By Laura Edwins
Miami Herald
The federal government should buy Florida Power and Light’s land in Everglades National Park to protect wood storks and other wading birds, local environmentalists told park officials last week.
Progress keeps Crystal River nuke plant open
By Fred Hiers
Ocala Star-Banner
Progress Energy Florida told state regulators on Monday that the utility plans to repair its damaged Crystal River nuclear power plant, ending speculation it might close the 35-year old facility.
Under the radar attack on state parks
Editorial
St. Petersburg Times
Displaying contempt for the public and the environment, Gov. Rick Scott's Department of Environmental Protection has provided only scant notice of its plan to turn over portions of up to 56 state parks to private corporations to build and run campgrounds.
LGBT
Scott: No gay marriage law coming to Florida
By Danny Valentine
St. Petersburg Times
Gov. Rick Scott was in St. Petersburg Monday to hold a ceremonial signing of several education bills.
Marriage Equality: After New York, What Now For The GOP?
By Amanda Peterson Beadle
The Progress Report
After the 33rd “yes” vote was counted in New York’s Senate Friday night, it was momentous not in the least because the Legislature had passed marriage equality – the state House had already approved the measure — but also because they passed it with four Republicans voting in favor of the historic measure in the Republican-controlled Senate.
Living up to promise of equality
Editorial
St. Petersburg Times
The remarkable and encouraging step by New York in becoming the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage gives gays and lesbians the same right as everyone else to form legally secure families with the person they love.
EDUCATION
Scott signs Thrasher’s charter school expansion bill into law
By Matt Dixon
Florida Times-Union
Over the opposition of Democrats and teachers unions, Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill Monday making it easier for “high-performing” charter schools to expand.
Gov. Rick Scott signs education choice bills
By Leslie Postal
Orlando Sentinel
Surrounded by charter-school students, Florida Gov. Rick Scott touted school choice this morning during a bill-signing ceremony intended to praise programs that offer parents options for their children outside traditional public schools.
FSU professor to study: Is Bright Futures working?
By Kim Wilmath
St. Petersburg Times
This story could have been written 12 years ago. Or nine years ago. Or seven or six or four or two years ago or last year, too.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
A Congressman’s Pet Project; a Railroad’s Boon
By Eric Lipton
New York Times
Here in sun-parched Central Florida, workers are ready to break ground this summer for a 61-mile commuter rail project that the federal government ranks as one of the least cost-effective mass transit efforts in the nation.
Expect competing claims as SunRail tour starts Tuesday
By Dan Tracy
Orlando Sentinel
The great SunRail commuter train barnstorming tour will start Tuesday in Volusia County and end in Osceola County, with plenty of competing claims likely to be made at each stop.
Florida Highway Patrol Almost Disbanded
By Mike Vasilinda
Capitol News Service
The Florida Highway Patrol has been patrolling Florida roadways since 1939.
Scott signs bill reducing unemployment benefits
By Marcia Heroux Pounds
Orlando Sentinel
Gov. Rick Scott on Monday signed into law legislation that reduces unemployment benefits in the state when the jobless rate falls to 5 percent or lower.
South Florida homeowners seeing big increases in renewal notices for property insurance
By Susan Salisbury
Palm Beach Post
When Paul Hobson received his State Farm Florida renewal this month, he was shocked to find the annual premium to insure his 2,200-square-foot house had increased to $2,715 from $1,092.
Balancing act
Editorial
Ocala Star-Banner
One subject — erasing a budget deficit of $3.8 billion — overwhelmed this year's annual March-to-May legislative session.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
Nurses union supports equal access for all
By Jean Ross
Orlando Sentinel
The view from the hospital floor where nurses give care 24/7 is quite a distance from the halls of Congress, which is consumed with debates on debt ceilings.
Med students to train in home care
By Brittany Alana Davis
Health News Florida
Medical and nursing students will be able to get credit for home-care training for the chronically ill under a law that will take effect on Friday.
Medicare fraud nets 20-year prison sentence for Miami physician
By Jay Weaver
Miami Herald
A Miami-Dade doctor convicted of pocketing more than $1 million for writing phony prescriptions for unnecessary HIV treatments was sentenced Monday to almost 20 years in prison, for his key role in a massive Medicare fraud conspiracy.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
DCF: Positive drug test will lead to child abuse hotline referralBy Catherine Whittenburg
Tampa Tribune
Starting next month, Florida's social service agency will refer every welfare applicant who fails a drug test to a child abuse hotline.
Anonymous Declares War On The City Of Orlando
By TechCrunch.com
Washington Post
The hacktivist group Anonymous may be setting its sights on the city of Orlando, Florida next, if an anonymous press release which has landed in our inbox is to be believed.
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