Best of the Blogs: New Hurdles

Progress Florida’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 4-29-16
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida’s popular free Daily Clips service.

Progress Florida’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 4-29-16
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida’s popular free Daily Clips service.

Amendment 4 on August’s Ballot Seeks to Lower Solar Energy Costs in Sunshine State
By George Cavros
CleanEnergy Footprints
Want to know the best-kept secret in Florida about one of the biggest barriers holding back meaningful solar development?

Community Changemakers: “Fighting For A Better Quality Of Life.”
By Michelle Guerin
Fight For Florida
In our latest Community Changemakers, Michelle Guerin, Field Representative for the Southwest Chapter of the South Florida AFL-CIO, sits down with former Ironworker, Larry Aguilar, to talk about labor, apprenticeships, immigration reform and local community work that’s helping provide new opportunities for disenfranchised youth in the Ft. Myers area.

Florida Laws Blocking Women’s Health Care Face New Hurdles
By Martha Jackovics
Beach Peanuts
The Florida GOP has been on a roll lately when it comes to blocking women from access to health care, but two recent laws are facing new hurdles from the Florida Supreme Court as well as Washington.

Sarasota Herald Tribune: “Farmworkers’ coalition has transformed Florida fields…”
Coalition Of Immokalee Workers
The Fair Food Program Annual Report — which has been making the rounds among worker organizations, academics, and the media ever since its official New York release back in February — was the centerpiece of a lively community and media event in Sarasota, Florida, late last week. 

FPL executives feel the pressure rising and try to “manipulate the flow”
By Gimleteye
Eye On Miami
It was a “feel-good” day at Florida International University for FPL and that is pretty much how the Miami Herald reported it.