Showing posts with label Rick Scott's Florida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rick Scott's Florida. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Rick Scott's Florida 48th out of 51

The Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation dedicated to expanding access to health care, released its annual report for all 50 states — and Florida performed abysmally.
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Because Florida is run by former hospital executive Rick Scott, you might assume the state would have a solid health-care system. But Scott is a profiteer whose company stole an unprecedented amount of money from Medicare and Medicaid in the '90s and who as governor then refused to expand Medicaid, campaigned against Obamacare, and did basically everything in his power to make sure it's really difficult for Floridians to get insurance and pay for routine medical care. here

Friday, April 13, 2018

Rick Scott's Florida

"Florida ranks 49th among the states in per-capita spending for K-12 schools, and 35th in teacher pay, according to the National Education Association. Elementary-secondary teachers earn an average $49,199. That’s $9,154 less than the U.S. average." here

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Florida #50 In Health Care

The list, 2017′s Best & Worst States for Health Care, saw Florida ranked 50th out of 51 for the percentage of insured adults between the ages of 14 and 64. Florida was 47th for the percentage of insured children. here

Sunday, July 30, 2017

Rick Scott's Wolfe: Pete Antonacci

You remember “The Wolfe.” He was the character played by Harvey Keitel in the Quentin Tarantino movie, Pulp Fiction. “I solve problems,” was how The Wolfe described his many-faceted job working for a powerful, but unseen boss. Florida’s Winston Wolfe is Pete Antonacci, who fixes things for Gov. Rick Scot. here

Rick Scott's Price-Tag For Losing Legal Battles Continues To Grow

Since Scott took office the state has paid at least $19 million to cover expenses and fees for opposing lawyers. here

Saturday, January 14, 2017

FLORIDA INC. IS COMING FOR OUR SPRINGS (AGAIN)

An Austrian/Canadian auto parts magnate Frank Stronach is preying on Marion County to build a massive grass-fed beef operation called Adena Springs Ranch. When you think “grass-fed” beef, it brings up images of scattered cattle, lazily chomping on grass until their final hour. That’s not what this is. This is a ginormous, densely-packed industrial cattle production site that has for years petitioned governmental entities to divert as much as 13.2 million gallons of water per day to water the grass. That’s more than the city of Ocala uses. here

Thursday, January 12, 2017

Rick Scott's Florida Corporate Welfare Not Working

Florida’s state economic development efforts are “underperforming,” according to a new legislative report. An undesirable label by any standard, critics and lawmakers already skeptical of providing taxpayer support (Corporate Welfare) for private businesses. here

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Rick Scott's Florida 47th In Country In Child Health Care

The quality of health care among Florida's children has improved since 2008, but the state still lags far behind much of the nation. According to a report released by Florida Kids Count. here

Sunday, December 25, 2016

The Massacre To Begin In Florida

The Florida Supreme Court cemented death sentences for nearly 200 prisoners Thursday, ruling that they are not eligible for lower sentences or rehearings under a revamped death penalty law. here

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Kids Going Crazy In Rick Scott's Florida

According to Department of Children and Families numbers obtained by the Tampa Bay Times, the total of minors evaluated in Florida under the Baker Act increased by 50 percent from fiscal year 2010 to 2015. 
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In Tampa Bay,
 Pinellas County, the numbers rose by 41 percent, while more than doubling in Hillsborough. here

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Rick Scott's Florida Denying Voting Rights

Although the era of Jim Crow laws is history, an estimated 21 percent of Florida's voting-age African-American males are not able to vote, according to a new report. here

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Radioactive Alafia River

 Mosaic’s radioactive, contaminated water that leaked from a sinkhole, is being diluted and dumped into the Alafia river. here

Saturday, December 17, 2016

Rick Scott's Florida #47

 Florida has ranked nationally as the 47th for women, a status that has remained largely unchanged for 10 years. here

Friday, December 16, 2016

Rick Scott's Florida #36

Florida fell three notches to 36 among all 50 states in the annual “America’s Health Ranking” for 2016 released Thursday by the United Health Foundation, a nonprofit arm of insurer United Health Group. here


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article121019518.html#storylink=cpy

Sunday, October 30, 2016

Rick Scott's Florida Voter Suppression

A federal judge is demanding an explanation from state officials about a backlog in the number of newly registered voters who haven't been verified in time so they can vote in Florida's election. The judge ordered Gov. Rick Scott's top elections official, Secretary of State Ken Detzner, to have his elections division director, Maria Matthews, available 
to face questions. here

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Rick Scott's Corporate Welfare

Florida INC. CEO Rick Scott wants $85 million to give to his corporate buddies. He apparently has given up on the idea that he can create jobs, which he claimed he would do in his election campaigns. Scott’s strategy to lure jobs from other states ignores the facts of job creation. Most new jobs are homegrown, not lured from elsewhere. here
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Florida already has one of the lowest tax burdens in the nation and lax
 environmental regulations.  

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Florida INC. 50,000 Gallon Phosphoric Acid Leak

A 50,000-gallon leak of phosphoric acid at a Mosaic plant on County Line Road occurred Saturday. here

Monday, October 17, 2016

Florida Obscene' Disenfranchisement

Calling existing rules “obscene” disenfranchisement, a federal judge in Tallahassee declared that Florida must provide a method for voters to fix signature problems that might arise when they vote by mail in the presidential election. here

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article108687852.html#storylink=cpy

Friday, October 14, 2016

Right Wing Calhoun County, Florida

Calhoun County is a little rural county in Florida’s panhandle. It’s closer to Alabama than to Miami – and its citizens vote like Alabama. It’s two-thirds white and two-thirds of its votes went to Florida’s right-wing GOP governor in 2014. But on Oct. 4, the teachers in Calhoun County’s school system made history: They voted union, with theNational Education Association.  the NEA had to run an undercover campaign to organize them. That’s because Rick Scott, had convinced the overwhelmingly Republican state legislature, five years ago, to eliminate tenure. Say “the ‘u’ word” and you might be out of a job in an area like 
Calhoun County. here