Monthly Archives: May 2014
Biggest TFS day ever and other pieces of website/socal media news
First off, thanks to our readers for making yesterday the biggest day in TFS history in terms of page views and the second biggest in terms of unique users. The combination of events that took place yesterday and the number of articles on the site from different perspectives helped drive the traffic. We have a […]
Senate Democrats cave on voucher expansion
Fifteen years almost to day since the Florida Senate passed the Jeb Bush pet project A+ plan that brought public funding of private schools into our state, the Senate today passed the largest expansion of vouchers in the state’s history. Unlike the Florida House, where Democrats stuck together despite an aggressive lobbying effort by voucher […]
Guest Column: CD-13 in a nutshell in wake of David Jolly’s win
Editor’s Note: This is the first column we have published under an alias and that is not our regular practice and we will never have staff writers post articles or comments under an alias. But in this case we have made an exception regarding a story and we will for this particular writer in the […]
SINE DIE: The GOP’s Choice (UPDATED 11:15 AM ET)
Despite a national mood that favors the Republicans, Florida’s GOP faces a potential final day in complete control of the legislature today. This is a final opportunity potentially for the Jeb Bush backed education “reformers” to have a clean bite of the apple after beginning the destruction of Florida’s Public School system in Bush’s first […]
Tallahassee under Charlie Crist – Could today’s SINE DIE be the end of a sorry history for our state?
Lenny Curry’s resignation as RPOF Chairman to pursue the Mayor’s seat in Jacksonville currently held by Democrat Alvin Brown is the talk of Florida political circles today. We will have plenty of time to discuss this in coming months, but Curry may simply be getting out ahead of a storm if Charlie Crist is elected […]
Thursday Bookshelf- Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
If you are a regular news junkie, politico, or a policy wonk the name Matt Taibbi should be familiar to you. Before joining Glenn Greenwald’s new startup The Intercept, Taibbi served as a Contributing Editor and Columnist for Rolling Stone for which he is best known. He still has a weekly blog there was well. His July/2009 […]
Thank you to our readers!
The months of March 2014 and April 2014 have been the most successful in TFS’ history in terms of pageviews and acquiring new followers. Since launching in late February 2013 we have now had over 560,000 pageviews and we also passed the 7,000 follower mark in recent days. On behalf of all our writers we […]
Urge Your Representatives: Pass Parasailing Reform Before Sine Die
Rep. Gwyn Clarke-Reed’s HB 347 is the House companion bill to Sen. Maria Sachs’ SB 320, a package of common sense reforms to the currently unregulated parasailing industry. HB 347 — supported by the parents of two young women killed in needless accidents in Pompano Beach, supporters of good government, and stakeholders in the industry itself — […]
Coral Springs: A Democratic city run by right-wing Republicans
Coral Springs is the 12th largest city in the state with almost 125,000 residents and has a two to one Democratic voter registration advantage. The city last voted for a Republican Presidential candidate in 1988 and has not been represented in the state legislature by a Republican since before the 1982 redistricting. It is simply […]
Senate Democrats need to hold the line on vouchers
As we’ve discussed throughout this legislative session, House Democrats have heroically held the line in defense of public education. Three weeks ago, when the House passed its version of a dangerous school vouchers bill not a single Democrat in the lower chamber voted for it. As that bill made its way through the committee process, […]
The Florida Squeeze 