Best of the Blogs: Our House

Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 1-22-16
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 1-22-16
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.

Threadbare Mental Health System Exemplifies The Case Against Tax Cuts
By Greg Mellowe
Fight For Florida
In his proposed state budget for 2016-17, Florida Governor Rick Scott has called for another round of significant tax cuts, this time on the order of a billion dollars. 

Florida GOP Bases New Plan To Block Women’s Health Care On Texas Model That Closed Clinics Statewide
By Martha Jackovics
Beach Peanuts
Now that the 2016 legislative session is upon us, will Republicans finally expand Medicaid?

Gov. Rick Scott channels Flint, Michigan while signing disastrous new state “water policy” bill
By Gimleteye
Eye On Miami
Public clamor for a veto and against Florida Governor Rick Scott’s signing, today, of a new “water policy” bill lands in the governor’s bubble like a muted, padded sound.

Not in our house! Students call on USF Board of Trustees to reject campus Publix!
Coalition Of Immokalee Workers
Even as students from Florida to New York gear up to join farmworkers for Wendy’s protests as part of the upcoming 2016 Workers’ Voice Tour, students here in Tampa keep cranking up the volume in the Publix campaign!

Why Marco Rubio is more dangerous than Donald Trump or Ted Cruz
By Kartik Krishnaiyer
The Florida Squeeze
Florida’s Junior Senator has somehow cultivated a reputation among Republicans as a “serious lawmaker.”