Today on Context Florida:
For Labor Day, Jac Wilder VerSteeg talks of that “poor, mistreated middle-class worker” Tom Brady. The NFL superstar, backed by the players union, overturned in federal court the four-game suspension NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell had imposed for Brady’s role in Deflategate. Because his union rescued him, Brady and family will not find themselves penniless and on the streets.
Today is our Labor Day, and Pat Fowler, like many others, received a peppy greeting of Happy Labor Day from a politician this morning. “Oh good,” Fowler thought. “Let’s see what policies this politician is proposing in order to support workers.” But no, just platitudes — things Fowler calls Bulworthian bromides of little value.
This Labor Day, Jesse Panuccio says Florida’s workforce have pathways to prosperity that were unthinkable just a few years ago. From day one, the Scott Administration worked hard to enact policies that would reverse the state’s negative trajectory and jumpstart the economy. He started from a simple premise: lasting prosperity arises when businesses and families live and work in an environment that promotes and rewards hard work, innovation, and investment of time and resources.
Peter Schorsch responds to criticism of his “If I owned the Tallahassee Democrat” series of posts. Gerald Ensley, the Democrat‘s leading columnist, denigrates Schorsch, calling him little more than “a blogger who runs an aggregate website about state politics.” Describing the sites as such, Schorsch wonders — Did Ensley actually read them before defending his horse and buggy? Had he, he would know 90 percent of the content is original, and hardly aggregate anything.
