Best of the Blogs: Making Cuts

Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 5-8-15
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 5-8-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.

A Community Conversation on Race Relations and Policing in Tampa
By Joyce Hamilton Henry
Blog Of Rights
Last week, I attended a Town Hall in Tampa that was convened by Attorney Barry Cohen to address race relations and law enforcement. 

Scott Poised To Sign Abortion Waiting Period Bill Requiring Documented Proof Of Rape
By Martha Jackovics
Beach Peanuts
Even as the House Republicans shut down the session early in a tantrum over the working poor having access to health care, some bills managed to make the cut beforehand.

Chief Justice Roberts Accidentally Reveals Everything That’s Wrong With Citizens United In Four Sentences
By Ian Millhiser
Think Progress
On Wednesday, a 5-4 Supreme Court held in Williams-Yulee v. Florida Bar that states may “prohibit judges and judicial candidates from personally soliciting funds for their campaigns.”

A Game Of Thrones: the people of Miami and the populous South should support the civic uprisings in the North
By Gimleteye
Eye On Miami
Florida is not run from the state legislature or the governor’s executive office.

Handicapping State Senate District 29
By Kartik Krishnaiyer
The Florida Squeeze
One of the features of the new Broward Squeeze (as well as our other soon-to-be launched regional sites) is handicapping local races.