Monthly Archives: January 2013

No raise in minimum wage in five years … most dangerous corporate subsidy

The 5 Worst States To Spend Your Childhood | Care2 Causes The nonprofit health care policy group Kaiser Health released new state-level data on Medicaid and food-stamp enrollment and the numbers help paint a bleak picture for child poverty in … Continue reading

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Florida Needs to Debate the Death Penalty | Rhonda Swan | Florida Politics | Political Opinion | Florida Voices

Our justice system makes mistakes. If for no other reason, death should not be a penalty for any crime. Not only does Florida lead the nation with 21 individuals sentenced to death this year, according to the Death Penalty Information … Continue reading

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Being moral is to make good choices between right and wrong or good and bad actions.

Originally posted on Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation:
Being moral is to make good choices between right and wrong or good and bad actions. It applies to both individuals and organizations. With regard to the police function, a citizen cannot…

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Rep. Rehwinkel Vasilinda is quite right … Florida can’t afford vengeance; it’s being funded with dollars needed to make justice more swift and sure.

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Florida Today scams subscribers, advertisers, shareholders again, splashing whitewash all over memory lane. [updated]

Norm Wolfinger looks back on 28 years as state attorney | FLORIDA TODAY | floridatoday.com The name-calling likely will taper off. Wolfinger, 67, retired last week and is looking forward to a more welcoming nickname — Papa. via Norm Wolfinger … Continue reading

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Overzealous prosecutor pushes brilliant innovator over the edge.

Hactivist, Internet innovator Aaron Swartz commits suicide | PCWorld “From the beginning, the government worked as hard as it could to characterize what Aaron did in the most extreme and absurd way. The ‘property’ Aaron had ‘stolen,’ we were told, … Continue reading

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Planning and staging complete for next housing bubble. It’s on.

Housing Bubble on the Horizon » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names The banks are happy because they got everything they wanted; blanket legal immunity for garbage mortgages they plan to offload onto US taxpayers, a green light to … Continue reading

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Florida Black History Month Contests worthless … our black history goes unwritten.

From: Susan ChandlerDate: January 10, 2013 7:38:31 PM ESTTo: “Governor Rick Scott” <rick.scott@eog.myflorida.com>Subject: Re: 2013 Black History Month Contests Dear Governor Scott, Again, you have forwarded electronic propaganda while ignoring another electronic plea to address Florida’s frame-ups. The subjects you … Continue reading

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Florida Today scams subscribers, advertisers, shareholders. Again.

Brevard prosecutor, defender plan to build on predecessors’ successes | FLORIDA TODAY | floridatoday.com In the next year, Archer said he and Sheriff Wayne Ivey, who was sworn in on Monday, will create a specialized unit to target public corruption, … Continue reading

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NYT ignores imminent wrongful execution to play spin the IP

Questions for Mississippi Doctor After Thousands of Autopsies – NYTimes.com During the past several months, in courthouses around Mississippi, four new petitions have been quietly submitted on behalf of people in prison arguing that they were wrongfully convicted on the … Continue reading

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