PROGRESS FLORIDA IN THE NEWS
Florida’s Top Political Tweeters for September
By Peter Schorsch
St. Petersblog 2.0
Note: Progress Florida has moved into a tie for first place among more than 500 political tweeters in Florida. Follow us at http://twitter.com/progressflorida.
FEATURED STORIES
Gov. Rick Scott's chief of change: Steve MacNamara
By Michael C. Bender
St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Change for Gov. Rick Scott has come quickly this summer.
ALEC ‘Guide to Repealing ObamaCare’ echoes Florida legislative action
By Ashley Lopez
Florida Independent
Florida is one of a handful states rejecting grants from the federal health care reform law, a key strategy suggested in literature provided at this year’s American Legislative Exchange Council conference, a conference many Florida legislators attended.
Federal government insists Medicaid overhaul must include medical loss ratios
By Christine Jordan Sexton
Florida Current
Managed care plans will be required to spend 85 percent of the premium it receives from the state on the care for Medicaid patients that are forced to enroll in them under a Medicaid 1115 waiver that is being negotiated between the state and federal governments.
Is oil leaking in the Gulf from the BP spill site?
By Mark Guarino
Christian Science Monitor
Reports of oil surfacing near the site of the Deepwater Horizon explosion are raising questions about its source and whether it is related to last year’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – one of the worst environmental disasters in US history.
Gulf seabed one year after BP disaster
By Colleen McEdwards
CNN
It has been about a year since BP sealed the oil well that had been gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Florida AG under fire for terminating employees
By Gary Fineout
Associated Press
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has emerged in her short time on the job as a fierce critic of the federal health care overhaul and a tenacious opponent of illegal prescription drug sales.
BEST OF THE BLOGS
Dear Rick…Love, Jeb
By Daniel Tilson
St. Petersblog 2.0
Scrambling to stay ahead of the story of how and why emails that should by Law have been preserved as public records were instead deleted in early 2011, Governor Rick Scott’s minions are in the process of retrieving and releasing emails previously thought “lost” – notably including some sent to him by former governor Jeb Bush during the earliest days of the new Scott administration.
What Was in Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s Conveniently Deleted Emails?
By Trish Ponder
Pensito Review
From the moment Floridians heard that the penalties for Gov. Rick Scott (Tea/GOP) “losing” emails sent to and from his transition team ranged from a $500 fine to IMPEACHMENT (yeah, baby!), the story grabbed our attention in the way a big, juicy, limping mouse claims the attention of a cat on a diet.
Secret Memo from South Florida Water Management District Revealed: the Fanjuls troll for science
By Gimleteye
Eye on Miami
By slashing science budgets of the water management districts, Gov. Rick Scott will ensure no one will be left to interpret the past, in order to calibrate government investments to protect current and future taxpayers and citizens.
Whoever made this video for Mike Haridopolos should be taken out back and shot
By Peter Schorsch
St. Petersblog 2.0
I don’t care if it was Adam Goodman or Ridley Scott, whoever made this video for Mike Haridopolos should be taken out back and shot!
The Straw Poll That Broke The Camel's Back?
By Inkberries
Beach Peanuts
If the Florida Republican "Presidency 5" straw poll is such a strong indicator of which candidate will win the state primary and the Presidential nomination, then why are so many of the current crop of GOP houseplants candidates so afraid to participate in it?
FLORIDA POLITICS
Rick Scott and Rick Perry Neck and Neck in "Worst Governor Ever" Contest
By Kyle Munzenrieder
Miami New Times
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has sprung to a surprising lead in the Transport Workers of America's race for the "Worst Governor Ever," but just like he's done in the Republican presidential primary, Texas Gov. Rick (Perry) is hot on Scott's tail.
Jim Greer TV tell-all is bad news for George LeMieux
By Marc Caputo
Miami Herald
The controversial former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, Jim Greer, is taking to the airwaves, claiminig the criminal fraud case against him is the result of a political vendetta.
Southerland cites partisan pressure
By Bill Cotterell
Florida Capital News
U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland said Thursday congressional leaders on both sides of the partisan divide in Washington put extreme pressure on their members to "blindly" vote the party line on big issues.
Oil drilling, resignations and illegal lovers — a week in Florida politics
By Scott Maxwell
Orlando Sentinel
In today's Friday Files, we're talking about everything from party politics to oil drilling in the Everglades.
POLITICAL RACES
Mitt Romney Campaign Sees Florida Advantage In Rick Perry's Social Security Comments
By Jon Ward
Huffington Post
Rick Perry's explosive comments and past writings about Social Security have delighted Mitt Romney supporters and some advisers, who see the Texas governor as having made himself more vulnerable in one very crucial early Republican presidential primary state: Florida.
GOP candidates Romney, Cain in Tampa today
Staff Report
Tampa Tribune
GOP Presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Herman Cain will be in Tampa today.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
Oil Still Gushing from BP Well in Gulf
By Frank Whalen
American Free Press
Recent news reports confirm what many have alleged for over a year: British Petroleum’s “Macondo” well site has never stopped leaking.
Senate report cites inconsistencies in statewide wetlands and stormwater permitting
By Bruce Ritchie
Florida Current
A Senate committee is recommending that a statewide rule be developed for Florida's combined wetlands and stormwater permitting program to eliminate inconsistencies among water management districts.
Targeting the water districts
Editorial
Tampa Tribune
Gov. Rick Scott's administration says slashing the state's five water districts' budgets by $700 million won't harm the environment. Don't buy it.
Will Nuclear Plant Repairs Pay Off for Consumers?
By Robin Sussingham
WUSF Public Radio Tampa
Nuclear power has been getting a lot of attention lately. Progress Energy has been defending its rate hikes to fund construction of a new nuclear plant in Levy County.
EDUCATION
Florida lawmakers keep pushing for career-focused high school diploma
By Jeff Solochek
St. Petersburg Times
On the one hand, Florida leaders like to talk about the need to boost students' academics to become more competitive in the world.
Forget gym class: To keep kids fit, South Florida schools use videos, recess
By Scott Travis
South Florida Sun Sentinel
To keep students from getting fat, some South Florida elementary schools are making them watch fitness videos every morning. But they aren't required to do the exercises.
A school by day, adult club by night?
By Kathleen McGrory
Miami Herald
By day, the Balare Language Academy is an A-rated charter school, home to children in kindergarten through middle school.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
New department aims to attract 21,000 Florida jobs by bringing companies to the state
By Bruce Ritchie
Florida Current
A business plan issued Thursday for the new Department of Economic Opportunity calls for using financial incentives to create 21,000 jobs in two years for relocating out-of-state businesses.
Budget ax may fall on Tampa's hurricane hunter planes
By Erika Bolstad and Curtis Morgan
Miami Herald
With the cleanup from Hurricane Irene ongoing, Tropical Storm Katia looming in the Atlantic Ocean and a tropical depression threatening the upper Gulf Coast, some lawmakers and top federal scientists are making the case for maintaining healthy research budgets that sharpen the accuracy of hurricane forecasts.
Florida banks tap new federal stimulus program
By John Hielscher
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Four bank companies with local ties received nearly $113 million in the latest round of funding from a new federal stimulus program.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
Federal report cites state's wrongdoing in nursing-home ombudsman program
By Kate Santich
Orlando Sentinel
Federal investigators have determined the state's Department of Elder Affairs violated the U.S. Older Americans Act by interfering with what is supposed to be an independent nursing-home watchdog program, officials announced Thursday afternoon.
For Pain Pill Abuse, Government Writes New Prescription
By Ralph De La Cruz
Florida Center for Investigative Reporting
Floridians who have had a root canal in the last few days have probably noticed: the prescription drug world has changed in the Sunshine State.
Healthcare for a select few
Editorial
Miami Herald
Healthcare insurance costs continue to gobble up family budgets.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
Fla. participation in post-9/11 security program draws ire
By Michael Peltier
News Service of Florida
A new program aimed at getting people to report suspicions about others that backers say will make Florida safer drew criticism Thursday from at least one civil liberties group that called it a "blunt approach" that will inevitably lead to profiling.
Broward residents again protest proposed private immigration detention center
By Marcos Restrepo
Florida Independent
Residents of Southwest Ranches and Pembroke Pines, as well as immigrant advocates, will gather Thursday to once again voice their opposition to the construction of a privately run immigration detention center in Broward County.
Stetson Kennedy and the pursuit of truth
By Paul Ortiz
Facing South
Stetson Kennedy spent the better part of the 20th century doing battle with racism, class oppression, corporate domination, and environmental degradation in the American South.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
Haridopolos moves to compensate man who served a 27-year prison sentenceBy Kim MacQueen
Florida Current
Senate President Mike Haridopolos is working again to compensate William Dillon, who was incarcerated for 27 years.
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