December 17, 2018
The Ledger, Tom Palmer, December 15, 2018- If you’re still tossing pickle jars, plastic water bottles, polystyrene cups and plastic bags into your curbside recycling bin, you’re part of a problem Polk County recycling officials are trying to figure out how to solve. Somehow, word of the changes that occurred …
November 20, 2018
Tampa Bay Times, Josh Solomon, November 16, 2018- Plastic straws were first. Then polystyrene. Now the City Council is targeting bags. Council members on Thursday heard a pioneering proposal that would force retailers and restaurants citywide to charge customers 5 cents for “single-use carryout bags.” That means traditional Chinese-restaurant style …
October 24, 2018
Miami Herald, Jim Saunders, October 23, 2018- A circuit judge has given a boost to more than 30 local governments — many of them in Miami-Dade and Broward counties — challenging a 2011 state law that threatens stiff penalties for city or county officials who approve gun restrictions. Leon County …
September 27, 2018
The New Republic, Sophie Kasakove, September 26, 2018- In 2014, years before he became the Democratic nominee for governor of Florida, Andrew Gillum was targeted by two gun-rights organizations, Florida Carry and the Second Amendment Foundation, which threatened to remove him from his post as Tallahassee city commissioner over a …
September 24, 2018
Bungalower, Brendan O’Connor, September 24, 2018- The Mayor has called for more police patrols to help ease the minds of Orlando residents who raised concerns at a recent City Commission meeting about the new business opening in their neighborhood in Washington Shores. Click HERE to see a video of a community meeting that …