Best of the Blogs: On The Rocks

Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 10-16-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.

Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 10-16-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.

Jeb! Bush Sees No Need To Reauthorize The Voting Rights Act
By Martha Jackovics
Beach Peanuts
“Probably nothing.” That was Jeb! Bush’s response in 1994 to a black voter who asked what he planned on doing for the black community in Florida.

Mother Of Slain Teen Says Stand Your Ground Laws ‘Empowered’ Her Child’s Shooter
By Alice Ollstein
ThinkProgress
After Michael Dunn shot and killed unarmed 17-year-old Jordan Davis for playing loud music in a Jacksonville convenience store parking lot in 2012, his lawyer cited Florida’s controversial Stand Your Ground law in his defense.

Florida Bay on the rocks
By Gimleteye
Eye On Miami
My life as an environmentalist started in the late 1980’s when I moved to Key West and straight into a devastating algae bloom in the northern part of the bay.

Jeb-Appointed Fl Judge (my own Seminole Co) Makes National News for being a Monster
By Vin Fl
SemDem
It’s never a good thing when you see the Seminole County courthouse on the front A 

People’s Movement Takes Widespread Action on Climate Around the Southeast and Nation Today
By Chris Carnevale
CleanEnergy Footprints
Today, nearly 200 events across the nation are demonstrating broad citizen support for taking aggressive action on climate change.