Today on Context Florida:
The Florida Democratic Party is going through a soul-searching exercise headed by U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson says Florida House Democratic Leader Mark Pafford. When you lose at the ballot box, he writes, you need to figure out how best to correct course and improve navigation. Nevertheless, it is important not to overlook a fundamental reason for the number of Democrats in the Florida House: Redistricting.
Whether candidates or elected officials want to acknowledge the truth, environmental matters is always important in Florida. From a statewide perspective, Bruce Ritchie offers his top 10 environmental stories from 2014.
The 2008 American League Champion Tampa Bay Rays may be on their way out of Florida, says Bob Sparks. A move is not imminent, but recent events with the St. Petersburg City Council increase the odds that Miami may eventually be the only remaining Major League Baseball team in the long term.
Torture and complicity in torture were felonies under U.S. law long before George W. Bush moved into the White House, writes journalist and radio host David Swanson, under both the torture statute and the war crimes statute. Nothing has fundamentally changed about that, other than the blatant lack of enforcement for several years running. Nothing in those two sections of the U.S. code limits the law to members of the U.S. military or excludes employees, contractors, or subcontractors of so-called intelligence agencies.
