News
State Clemency Official to Black Applicant: How Many Kids Do You Have? By How Many Different Mothers?
About 1.7 million people in Florida cannot vote. Amendment 4 on the November ballot might change that. Erwin Jones, an African-American man, was standing before the governor and Cabinet on June 14 when Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis asked him how many children he had and “how many different mothers to those children?” Jones […]
What does it take to pass Florida’s Algebra 1 exam? A startlingly low score
For tens of thousands of public high school students, Florida’s crucial statewide Algebra 1 exam is a pathway – or a roadblock — to graduation. If they want to get their high school diplomas, kids have to pass the test. But the public may not realize that the threshold to pass is startlingly low, state […]
Planned Parenthood opens new clinic in Florida’s state capital
The facility isn’t easy to find, and you won’t see signs on the building that have anything to do with reproductive services or really anything about health care at all. It’s intentionally nondescript, with the entrance turned away from the street for safety reasons. There’s a vestibule made from bulletproof glass. The building in Tallahassee […]
America’s offshore oil lobby is circling like sharks
In the Crazy Town political atmosphere we now inhabit, you can get whiplash trying to follow the bouncing slime balls. Or, in this case, tar balls. Because when it comes to bizarre politics, look no further than the Florida coast and the prospect of oil rigs offshore. The latest drama started at the first of […]
Reptilian magnetism!
For years, scientists have told us that Florida’s female sea turtles faithfully return to nest on the beach where they were born. Now it turns out there’s more to the story. Like many other migrating creatures, sea turtles may have a type of physiological magnetism that acts as a geographic homing device – called geomagnetic […]