Yearly Archives: 2014
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, […]
Video: Voucher proponent discusses how Florida is the national model for school “choice”
Florida’s school children have been used as guinea pigs in the continued experimentation for political purposes with our educational structure. AMCSC- Clip 1 from Nozo Media on Vimeo.
Poll: Crist Maintains Large Lead Over Scott
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida. Reprinted with permission. THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, April 30, 2014……….With strong support from women and independents, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist continues to hold a hefty lead over incumbent Republican Rick Scott, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.Crist, who was elected governor in 2006 as a […]
Budget Pre K-12 numbers reduced
Last night at 8:35pm Tallahassee time the House and Senate agreed to a compromise budget for FY 2014-15. While the budget has lots of good points one particular issue is worrying. This issue is that the funding for Pre K-12 education is lower in the conference report than in both the initial House and Senate […]
Fare Play: Should Florida be over Uber?
Is it a car service? Is it an app? Is it the next great step forward for the “sharing economy?” Another David vs. Goliath showdown, where innovation squares off against entrenched and outdated local control? The Uber debate is not easily broken down by a prevailing ideology or caucus factions. Age has played a critical […]
Videos: Voucher proponents on targeting Democrats and using special needs children as props
Voucher proponents using the dollars from big money corporate backers have cynically manufactured artificial support for various schemes that are unconstitutional and damage public education. Here once again we have video evidence of the agenda: On squeezing Democratic candidates AMCSC Clip5 from Nozo Media on Vimeo. On using special needs kids: aMCSC Clip 9 from […]
The Florida Squeeze 