House committee moves bill to give Florida schools flexibility with book funds

Florida educators have talked for years about the need to modernize technology in the schools so children can get the most up-to-date education. The problem has been money. The House Pre-K-12 Policy Committee took steps Wednesday morning to free up some of the money that school districts use for Read More

Aronberg v. Gelber on sex offenders

Sen. Dave Aronberg, D-Greenacres, is back with his annual sex offender residency bill — which this year might become an issue in his Democratic primary for attorney general against Sen. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach. Aronberg’s bill would establish a minimum, statewide 1,000-foot buffer Read More

Coming up: FCAT testing, State Board of Education, spring break and more

Tuesday through March 19:  FCAT testing Tuesday: Pinellas School Board , 5 p.m. • Hillsborough School Board , 3 p.m. • House Full Appropriations Council on Education and Economic Development, 2 p.m. • Senate appropriations committees, 10:45 a.m. • Senate Higher Education Committee, 3:30 Read More

Missing boy found

An 11-year-old boy who stormed out of his house Saturday has been found in the family’s garage after police searched for him overnight.

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Why Can’t the Press Stop Orrin Hatch from Lying?

Steve Benen, Ezra Klein, Rachel Maddow, and good many others have made the point over and over and over: as things stand right now — in fact,as they have been since Christmas — no “reconciliation bill” is needed to pass comprehensive health care reform. All it takes is for Read More

The Graphic Made Wolf Do It

Glenn Greenwald (in the Update section) is uncommonly generous to Wolf Blitzer: Credit where it’s due, I suppose, though the use of those chyrons was only a part of the journalistic heinousness in how CNN and Blitzer covered that story. As it happens, Blitzer didn’t mention his Read More

Liberal and Conserative Agree: Rahm Emanuel Has to Go

From Friday, March 5, 2010, News Hour with Jim Lehrer : Index Rahm Emanue l: .10-3:00 Congressional Corruption : 3:11-6:30 Health Care Reform : 6:31-8:26 Unfunctional, Untrustworthy Senate : 8:26-10:35 Texas and Florida Primaries : 11:21-12:47

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Beach Solution in Search of a Problem

Reporter Kimberly Blair covered yesterday’s SRIA meeting about the latest beach re-do plan . [ "Beach's Future Cloudy" ] Her lede resonates with most beach residents and businesses in attendance: “Slow down. Scale down. And too expensive.” [M]any people were concerned about Read More