Friday, May 17, 2019
Florida GOP Attacks Public Education
Teachers union says new voucher program will drain nearly $1B from public schools HERE
Thursday, May 16, 2019
Reefer Madness House In Ybor City
In 1933, Victor Licata killed his parents and siblings with an axe at their Ybor City home in a case that fueled the era’s anti-marijuana “reefer madness” campaign.
Florida Radio Stations To Broadcast Right Wing Propaganda Daily Until 2020 Election
“We ran it by a bunch of listeners and people in the area, and nobody’s upset about it. It’s Republican territory,” Rogatinsky said HERE
Wasn't this county destroyed by a hurricane
and has received no help from Trump?
and has received no help from Trump?
The 2 state solution
Florida Right Wing Infestation Alert: Irina Vilariño
Irina Vilariño is running for a Miami-based House seat against Dem Debbie Mucarsel-Powell who unseated three-term GOP Rep. Carlos Curbelo last fall.
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She has a long history of touting conspiracy theories — including a video that’s deceptively edited to make it sound as if President Obama said he wasn’t born in the United States.
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She is a fierce supporter of Trump, and her Twitter profile is packed with conspiratorial content. HERE
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Monday, May 13, 2019
Commissioner Mariella Smith's response to the Tampa Bay Times
The Times wrote, “There is no reason local taxpayers should be paying for express service to MacDill” — by ferry. Yet they have never said that we should stop funding the express service to MacDill by bus, and ferry service is quicker and more efficient. HART’s 3 express bus lines from South County to MacDill transported 121,926 riders last year. These are the only express routes to see consistent increases in ridership, with a combined 10.5% growth in the past year. The demand for commuter transit services to MacDill is great.
Every day 18,000 people stream into MacDill Air Force Base. Most of them have no other choice but to drive a car alone to the base. The Ferry will not only provide a quicker, more direct route for commuters to MacDill, it will also remove thousands of cars from the roads during rush hour, from South County to Bayshore, making commutes easier for other drivers and reducing pollution and wear and tear on our roads.
I don’t understand why the Times singles out the workers of MacDill as any less deserving of public transit options than any other commuters. We should strive to provide mass transit wherever we can identify any large group of commuters regularly traveling from one area to another, regardless of whether those people are working at a private company, a public agency, or a military base. The MacDill route is a great place to start commuter service by ferry.
Meanwhile, the evening and weekend service connecting South County to Tampa and St. Pete will provide transit service to South County — an underserved area that has so far not seen much benefit from the tax dollars they contribute to our transportation system. This is why I constantly hear a lot of enthusiasm expressed for this ferry service in South County. And the high ridership numbers from the Cross-Bay Ferry Pilot Project definitely justify increasing ferry service on the Tampa – St. Pete route.
We have been working on this high-speed ferry transit project for 6 years now. No one has come up with a better plan, and no ferry company has offered us a better deal than the current offer by HMS Ferries’ commitment to pay all the operating costs for 20 years.
If we proceed with this ferry project, it can be the start of more robust ferry service in our future. But if naysaying and foot-dragging finally sinks this ferry project, odds are we will not see another opportunity to have ferry transit crossing Tampa Bay for decades to come.
Mariella Smith
Florida GOP Consolidation of Power
Miami state Rep. Jose Oliva is a hardcore ideologue who believes in Koch-Brothers-style, pro-business, libertarian-esque Republicanism.
He supports the state's right to "preempt" towns from making their own laws as a way to stop local governments from, in his mind, improperly interfering with business, the economy, or people's lives.
Under his leadership, the Florida GOP in 2019 made good: It pitched a slew of preemption laws to hamper local towns' rights to regulate everything from plastic straws all the way to job responsibilities, work hours, and employee benefits. HERE
SNL’ rips Florida Panhandle
“SNL” cut to Anchor Colin Jost
on the phone.
on the phone.
“I know that speech didn’t sound very eloquent, but for the Florida Panhandle, it was basically the Gettysburg Address,” Jost said.
The Panhandle deserved the ridicule, Jost added, for joking about shooting migrants at the border. HERE
Sunday, May 12, 2019
Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Everglades
This place "Kanter Real Estate LLC" wants to drill for oil in the Everglades.
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Broward County and the city of Miramar
tried to stop it.
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They dropped their legal efforts to have the Florida Supreme Court hear the case, saying they didn’t receive cooperation from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. HERE
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