U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Cuba's President Raul Castro in April. The United States formally dropped Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism Friday. here
Rich white men such as Florida House Budget Chair Richard Corcoran.giving away billions of dollars annually in tax dodges to giant corporate donors, while maintaining what’s statistically the second most unfair tax system in America. They count on the public not knowing, or being talked into disbelieving or disregarding such facts by the best conservative spin-doctors Republican money can buy. here
On display every time citizens go to County Hall or the City Commission to protest a zoning approval. The developers and their representatives are chummy on the sidelines with regulators while citizens in the audience are on the defensive.At Eye On Miami, we witnessed the relationship between government and citizens take a nose-dive when local freedom of information requests began to be accompanied with outrageously high bills for copying documents. It was as if to say to the inquisitive, "fuck you". here
Hillsborough County is moving tentatively toward making possession of small amounts of marijuana a civil instead of criminal offense for minors. Hillsborough is the only one of the 59 Florida counties with juvenile civil citation programs that doesn’t allow citations instead of arrests for misdemeanor pot possession. here
Valrico businessman and Republican kingmaker Sam Rashid went a bit to far in a Facebook posting last week, referring to three unnamed Hillsborough County Circuit Judges as “dumbasses. The posting could prove an embarrassment to the presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, a longtime friend of Rashid who appointed him to the commission. here