Today on Context Florida: Most Floridians take a pass on paying attention to the 60-day legislative session, Daniel Tilson writes, and that’s probably the way lawmakers like it. Most middle-class residents he encounters can’t imagine whom their state Senators are, much less what they stand for. But they should.
Michael Richardson lists a few winners and losers in privatized Social Security, which could happen if the GOP takes over the Senate in 2014 and the White House in 2016. On the losing side are lower-learning workers and taxpayers or offspring of lower-income elders who run through Social Security retirement funds prematurely.
Catherine Robinson finds the idea that middle school-age children are thinking about sex somewhat conflicting. Something seems to have exploded in the brains of her twin sons, who just turned 14, with new questions every week — and Robinson is running out of answers.
With a world of “hustle and bustle,” says Peter A. Clark, it’s easy to lose sight of one thing we all have in common—the Earth. But we have to take action now to prevent algae blooms and other water pollution issues in Tampa Bay, since no one else will clean it up for us.
