A majority of Florida voters do not want to abandon Everglades restoration efforts and also aren’t so keen on Gov. Rick Scott’s plans to scale back state growth management efforts, according to a poll released Monday by an environmental group, reports Kathleen Haughney of the News Service of Florida. About 65 percent of people surveyed [...]

Yvonne Yen Liu elaborates via Andrew Sullivan on a new report (pdf): Half of white food workers earn $25,024 a year, while workers of color make $5,675 less than that. This wage gap plays out in all four sectors of the food system—production, processing, distribution and service—with largest income divides occurring in the food processing and [...]

OPPAGA Report: ‘Florida’s pension plan is sound’

Leslie Waters, Vice Mayor of Seminole and republican former State Representative and Speaker Pro-Tempore, filed to run for the Florida Senate in 2012, when Senator Dennis Jones vacates the position due to term-limits. Representative Waters served in the Florida House of Representatives for 8 years, leaving office in 2006 due to term-limits.  While in the [...]

The Stetson University law school says former Gov. Charlie Crist is going to be a guest lecturer there. The law school announced Monday that he has been appointed a “distinguished professorial lecturer.” Besides lecturing in various classes, he will interact with students and deliver presentations on campus and at law school events, reports the Associated [...]

First, let me say that I know that I am probably missing a lot of people, hence I describe the list as 75+, emphasis on plus.  If you believe someone belongs on this list, let me know and I will gladly add them.  I’ve revised this list already and conveniently, there is a clear cut-off [...]

Scott Rosenberg corrects the New York Times: Social networking is changing blogging. …More of us are using Facebook and Twitter for casual sharing and personal updates. That has helped clarify the place of blogging as the medium for personal writing of a more substantial nature. Keeping a blog is more work than posting to Facebook and Twitter. So I [...]

Now that the Washington Post has released its list of the must-follow political Tweeters in Florida, what better time is there to publish a list of the top 75+ political Tweeters in Florida, based on their score on Klout.com, which increasingly seems to be the benchmark by which Twitter accounts are measured. At the onset, [...]