"Makes You Proud To Be A Floridian" - "After four years of disdain for public education from Gov. Bush and the Legislature, voters last year told them to reorder their priorities. Instead, through accounting tricks, the governor and the House want to give another tax break to the wealthiest Floridians and keep in place an optional corporate tax break -- neither of which helps the economy -- while keeping on the books every special-interest tax exemption, including the one for skyboxes at stadiums.
At the same time, the universities would lose more than $100 million, the schools would get less money than they need to keep up with growth and inflation, and [the medically needy] would pay more for the drugs they can't live without. Makes you proud to be a Floridian." See the Palm Beach Post's, "State needs to develop some heart".
Is This A Good Thing For Dems? Sentinel political editor Mark Silva writes: "What a race: Adelaide "Alex" Sink [Bill BcBride's wife], a retired banker from rural Thonotosassa, challenging Alex Penelas, Hispanic mayor of Miami-Dade County, for the Democratic Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2004. " See "Bid to replace Graham could turn on axis of Alex".
You Know Privatization Is Wrong . . . When The Times Union Questions It. Even the Florida Times Union has to concede that privatizing everything is not necessarily the way to go. Imagine this shocking concession from the editorial board (that is otherwise the mouthpiece of the Floiordia GOP): "turning over [to the private sector] an operation [from the public sector] that already excels, and limiting the competition for the contract, does not seem to be the best approach." Read the editorial here.
And, yet more criticism of another privatization scheme from an odd source.
State Employee Pay Raises - What exactly is meant by the phrase "lean and mean".