Best of the Blogs: The Cost

Progress Florida Education Center's Best of the Blogs for the week ending 7-20-12
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Florida's Remaining Natural Environment - Death by a Thousand Pricks
By Sandspur
SWFWMD Matters
A prick is defined by Merriam Webster as the act of piercing something with a fine, sharp point leaving a mark or shallow hole.

Lying Liar Barney Bishop is Telling Lies to You
By Benjamin J. Kirby
The Spencerian
A guy named Barney Bishop -- "outspoken advocate for the free enterprise system" --  who evidently used to be the Executive Director of the Democratic Party of Florida, has a piece out in Sunshine State News today about how he's voting for Mitt Romney.

Rubio, off VP list
By Gimleteye
Eye on Miami
It was a mystery, why Florida Senator Marco Rubio was even considered a possible VP candidate given his track record and questionable associations.

Has Florida governor had a testing epiphany?
By Valerie Strauss
The Answer Sheet
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who hasn't seen a test he hasn't wanted students to take, seems to have come to some sort of epiphany: The state that has been a national model for high-stakes test-based school reform just may be testing schoolchildren too much.

The Cost to Tax Payers Caused by Bernard Long and Ron Flores
By Brughart
Hrrumph
A lawsuit has been filed against Justices Fred Lewis, Barbara Pariente and Peggy Quince by Bernard Long and Ron Flores in what can only be characterized as a patently political move to try and discredit ethical and competent judges; an effort to convince voters that these justices have done something wrong.