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Phil AmmannJanuary 3, 2016

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers: Tampa Bay Times — Consider electing state education commissioner No issue is more important to Florida and its future than public education. Yet voters are two steps removed from directly influencing the state education commissioner, who is appointed by the Board of Education, and whose members […]

Phil AmmannDecember 27, 2015

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers: Tampa Bay Times — Taxpayers assume risk, little gain for charter schools Florida has invested heavily in privately run charter schools for years, and the payoff for taxpayers has been uneven at best. While some successful charter schools fill particular needs in local communities, too many […]

Phil AmmannDecember 20, 2015

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers: Tampa Bay Times — Florida prison rife with abuses Inmates in Florida state prisons should be able to serve their sentences without the fear of being raped or abused. But too often that is the reality for inmates at Lowell Correctional Institution, a women’s prison in […]

Phil AmmannDecember 18, 2015

Political spin may become a thing of the past on Medium, the blogging platform popular with candidates. PolitiFact, the fact-checking arm of the Tampa Bay Times, will soon start sifting through posts by politicians — and publishing rulings — on Medium, as a way to “bring voters the truth.” Medium, launched in August 2012 by Twitter co-founder […]

Mitch PerryDecember 15, 2015

Over the years, conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch have spent vast amounts of money on political advertising and campaign donations in recent years trying to get Republicans elected. In January, they promised through their political network to spend nearly $900 million on the 2016 election, after spending nearly $400 million during the 2012 campaign. Not so […]

Mitch PerryDecember 14, 2015

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Just in time for Tuesday night’s GOP presidential debate from Las Vegas, the Florida Democratic Party is mocking Marco Rubio with the release of a new web video called, “The Rubio Card” that mocks the Florida Senator’s variously reported financial problems over the years. Questions of Rubio’s spending on a Republican Party of Florida charge card […]

Phil AmmannDecember 13, 2015

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers: Tampa Bay Times — Saving money by hurting sick kids The state of Florida should not balance its budget on the backs of sick children. But that is exactly what state health officials have done since May, when they kicked about 9,000 children out of a […]

Phil AmmannDecember 9, 2015

Florida State Parks have come under fire recently, and the Department of Environmental Protection decided it’s time to “set the record straight.” A new DEP email takes exception with several recent media accounts, each inaccurately “perpetuated misconceptions” about the future of Florida State Parks. “As these stories are being driven by false allegations based on […]

Phil AmmannDecember 6, 2015

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers: Tampa Bay Times — Hard choices on climate change Midway through the climate talks in Paris, world leaders will make the uneasy transition this week from soaring rhetoric to hard promises. But with nothing on the table so far that achieves the goal of limiting future […]

Phil AmmannNovember 29, 2015

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers: Tampa Bay Times — St. Petersburg should wait on spending most BP money St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman has imaginative plans to spend BP settlement dollars to fight environmental calamity and enhance the city’s quality of life. But the City Council has wisely applied the brakes […]

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A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers

A roundup of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers

PolitiFact will begin fact-checking posts, and publish rulings, on Medium

FSU took in $626,247 from Charles Koch Foundation last year

FDP releases ad for mock Marco Rubio credit card

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers

Email insights: DEP sets “record straight” on hunting, privatizing Florida State Parks

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers