Mitch Perry
It is Earth Day on Wednesday, the 45th anniversary of the 1970 celebration, and President Barack Obama is marking the occasion by visiting the Sunshine State, down at the Everglades.
In his weekly radio address broadcast Saturday, Obama discussed the threat of climate change in South Florida, saying that “rising sea levels are putting a national treasure — and an economic engine for the South Florida tourism industry — at risk.”
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Tampa City Council Chairman Frank Reddick says he hopes to have police Chief Jane Castor address the board soon to address the charges reported in a Tampa Bay Times report over the weekend regarding the targeting of black bicyclists in the city. Council members and others told Florida Politics their thoughts about the situation. (Meanwhile, Jane Castor responds in an op-ed).
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Are you familiar with the Trans-Pacific Partnership? It’s a major trade deal between the U.S. and 11 South American and Pacific Rim nations that if enacted would be the largest trade deal since NAFTA was signed 21 years ago. Tampa Bay area U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor says right now she would vote no on the deal.
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Castor was in the Rose Garden of the White House Tuesday afternoon, celebrating the rarity of a bipartisan piece of legislation signed last week by President Obama on the “doc fix.” Earlier, she celebrated the occasion at a Tampa health clinic.
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Jeff Eakins gets a nice, two-year plus deal to be the next superintendent for Hillsborough County Schools. And the District will conduct a workshop next month on recommendations coming from a task force on the issue of severe racial disparities in discipline and graduation rates for black and Latino students.
