Bad legislation made marginally better is still bad legislation. The House should make significant changes today to a bill that would keep too many videos from police body cameras secret. As it stands, the legislation would undercut the very purpose of body cameras, creating more suspicion about police hiding incidents of excessive force rather than […]
Florida’s ‘head in sand’ position on climate change could be costly – Bradenton Herald
Before his election to the Manatee County school board in November 2012, attorney Dave Miner spent countless hours and years on education issues — commenting at board meeting, collecting videotapes of those discussion and assembling binders of district documents. He badgered the board and district for accountability. At that time, he served as a relentless […]
Discuss in public – Tallahassee Democrat
Somebody once said, “Every family is dysfunctional,but none of them know it.” That quote is doubly true for most political bodies. The current case in point is the Tallahassee City Commission. Simmering concerns over the long-hinted, never-official retirement of City Manager Anita Favors Thompson bubbled up at a meeting Wednesday, then boiled over in a series […]
