Best of the Blogs: Ultimate Costs

Progress Florida Education Center's Best of the Blogs for the week ending 4-6-12
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FPL and nuclear energy: cynicism and the bounds of reason
By Gimleteye
Eye on Miami
For nuclear power and other corporate polluters, there is an inherent problem where government policies allow regulated monopolies to charge its rate base -- as in the case of South Florida -- and shift the ultimate costs of pollution to pursue multi-billion dollar profits.

Republican Congressman Tries To Walk Back Calling The House GOP Budget A 'Joke'
By Alex Seitz-Wald
Think Progress
Rep. Connie Mack IV (R-FL), who is running for the Senate, strongly criticized the House Republican budget authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) this weekend.

Finally Friday Rails Edition
By Benjamin J. Kirby
The Spencerian
There's a giant sign on 66th Street not too far from us that says "No Tax for Tracks!" or something like that.

The toll of school reform on public education
By Diane Ravitch
The Answer Sheet
There comes a time when you look at the rug on the floor, the one you've seen many times, and you see a pattern that you had never noticed before.

Rod Smith Has Shaped the Redistricting Fight
By Kartik Krishnaiyer
The Political Hurricane
"We'll see you in court." With this one line the Florida Democratic Party fired a salvo at the Senate whose redrawn maps barely passed out of the House on Tuesday.