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Florence SnyderMarch 6, 2017

Jackie Pons is still the kind of public official who gave Florida’s Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP) a very bad name. To refresh our recollection on a pol best-forgotten, if he’d only go away, Pons lost his bid for re-election November as Leon County’s Superintendent of Schools. As a DROP-enrollee since 2014, he was entitled […]

Bob SparksNovember 9, 2016

With so many high-profile races going on in Florida, other contests were on the ballot, but under the radar. Florida Politics pointed out 10 of those down-ballot races to watch with backgrounds on each. While not as momentous as Donald Trump winning Florida, these races were interesting in their own right. Miami-Dade County Mayor Republican Mayor Carlos Gimenez went from a […]

James CallMarch 17, 2015

Tentacles slithering from a corruption investigation in Tallahassee indicate a made-for-TV movie may be in the works. The Tallahassee Democrat is working the story. The FBI, a federal grand jury and the U.S. Attorney’s Office are looking into 17 Leon County school-construction projects dating to 2007. The FBI has seized the school district’s email system […]

James CallMarch 17, 2015

Tentacles slithering from a corruption investigation in Tallahassee indicate a made-for-TV movie may be in the works. The Tallahassee Democrat is working the story. The FBI, a federal grand jury and the U.S. Attorney’s Office are looking into 17 Leon County school-construction projects dating to 2007. The FBI has seized the school district’s email system […]

Associated PressMarch 4, 2015

Several school districts on Tuesday suspended Florida’s new standardized tests for a second day, despite assurances that the problems had been fixed. Education Commissioner Pam Stewart asked districts early in the morning to resume using the online portal that middle-school and high-school students must use in order to log on and take the state’s annual […]

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Jackie Pons to taxpayers: DROP dead, part 2

Down-ballot races throughout Florida provided some interesting results as well

School principal says he’s FBI informant in corruption probe

School principal says he's FBI informant in corruption probe

Senators ask Gov. Rick Scott to suspend testing after glitches