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Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 8-7-15
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 8-7-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service

Cecil The Lion-Style Murders Happen In Florida Every Week
By Kartik Krishnaiyer
The Florida Squeeze
The world has rightfully expressed scorn and outrage the last few days over the murder of Cecil the Lion. 

Playing Privatization Russian Roulette
By Janice Coakley
Fight For Florida
Dwindling budgets and skyrocketing costs have municipalities across Florida looking to save a buck by privatizing city-run services, including solid waste and recycling.

Free Speech Is No Threat to Gun Ownership
By Howard Simon
Blog Of Rights
Doctors and medical personnel throughout Florida will soon be under new orders: Talk to your patients about gun safety and risk losing your right to practice medicine.

Rubio Is No Champion for Immigration Reform or Latino Voters
By Regina Clemente and Jocelyn Torres
Huffington Post Blog
So far, there is only one Latino candidate on the top half of the long list of contenders for the 2016 presidential race: Marco Rubio.

Florida’s proposed new congressional map is better, but a far cry from equal
By David Nir
Daily Kos
On Wednesday, Florida Republicans released a proposed new congressional map to comply with the state Supreme Court’s ruling that invalidated the current lines as unconstitutional.