Best of the Blogs: Friend In The Governor’s Mansion

Progress Florida Education Institute’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 9-12-13
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Institute’s popular free Daily Clips service.

 

By Martha Jackovics
Beach Peanuts
A new Census Bureau report shows that Florida is now the state with the second highest number of uninsured in the country, led only by Texas.
 
By Ben Kirby
Saint Petersblog
Mayor Bill Foster and challenger Rick Kriseman squared off in a mayoral debate last night the focus of which was business development in St. Petersburg.
 
By Jedd Legum
Think Progress
The Florida police chief that is actively investigating a confrontation between George Zimmerman, his wife and his father-in-law says someone is lying: either George Zimmerman or his lawyer.
 
By Troutfishing
Daily Kos
Reports MSNBC, Dove World Outreach Center pastor Terry Jones, in the latest of his seemingly endless anti-Islam PR stunts, has been arrested, along with his associate pastor, before they could torch thousands of kerosene-soaked copies of the Koran.