Pasco superintendent Kurt Browning just slammed the barn door after the horses left town. Browning has acknowledged the impropriety of district employees traveling to an out-of-state conference absent formal School Board approval and pledged it wouldn’t happen again. Good thing. The July 21-24 trip to North Carolina by eight employees led to questions of a potential Sunshine […]
New law drives lobbyists out of the shadows at state water management districts – Broward Bulldog
Florida’s five water management districts, special-purpose governments that collectively will spend $1.1 billion next year, have publicly registered 250 special-interest lobbyists since new registration requirements took effect July 1. Until now, lobbyists seeking to influence spending and policy decisions at the water management districts operated in the shadows. The public had no way to obtain […]
Editorial: PSTA doesn’t practice what it preaches – Tampa Bay Times
The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority is a public agency funded by taxpayer dollars, and members of the public are legally entitled to request as many public records as they want. Yet the PSTA has started listing on its website the name of every person who makes a public records request. CEO Brad Miller bragged in […]