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The Florida/DeSantis/DoE Jefferson corruption scandal: a cheat sheet of important players and timeline of reporting, dating to "Failure…
Here it is, all in one place. This makes it much easier to understand and follow. I will update as new developments occur. Please send me anything I've…
Billy Townsend
Jan 23
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Florida's modern sharecropping economy has finally caught up with its capital and employers
Florida is quickly becoming a much older, less creative version of California, with none of the homegrown industry or attempts to recruit, develop, and…
Billy Townsend
May 3, 2021
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Re-open the Florida DoE/Jefferson bid corruption probe, pt 1: Florida's state education leadership is rotten
A seemingly "simple" scandal of really dumb public official corruption is much worse than that. It reveals a bleak cynicism unworthy of children and the…
Billy Townsend
Jan 2
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Make the big new DeSanTest optional -- if you trust parents
Meet the new test. Same as the old test (or worse). We all knew the governor was lying about doing away with Florida's Big Standardized Test. Now how do…
Billy Townsend
Apr 29
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Scenes from a Capitol Lynch Mob wedding
The Lakeland 4's lynch mob viciously, unjustly, joyfully attacked the sovereignty of fellow citizens. Five brave Capitol Police who fought them for us…
Billy Townsend
Jan 6
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A Saga of bad citizenship
Lakeland's race for mayor offers an excellent localized example of the national struggle between good and bad citizenship that will define America …
Billy Townsend
Sep 9, 2021
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If Beloved is criminal pornography, come put me in jail, Grady Judd. Please, please, please.
It's important to meet absurd anti-social dominance rituals with equally absurd escalation and moral aggression. Call their bluff and embarrass them…
Billy Townsend
Jan 27
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If Beloved is criminal pornography, come put me in jail, Grady Judd. Please, please, please.
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Jeb Crow, part 1: Florida's voucher segregation factories imitate pre-Brown American education - only worse
876 Polk kids attend all or near-all black voucher schools with no accreditation or oversight. Polk is typical. Is it any wonder Florida's FTC vouchers…
Billy Townsend
Mar 3, 2021
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All DeSantis' behavioral logic points to Randy Fine, not Manny Diaz, as next commissioner
Bill Montford would be a smarter pick than either. But I don't think DeSantis can silence his inner troll.
Billy Townsend
Mar 14
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All DeSantis' behavioral logic points to Randy Fine, not Manny Diaz, as next commissioner
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GOP congressional candidate Dennis Ross mumbles and dissembles about forced birth/rapist rights
The former congressman and candidate for the Florida's new 15th Congressional district is very reluctant to answer his would-be constituent's questions…
Billy Townsend
May 10
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Bound, part 3: A hometown Publix accounting
Publix and Publix heirs should take a long break from power politics and rebind themselves to shared American life and representative democracy. What a…
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Feb 4, 2021
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Documenting Billy's meeting with Gov. DeSantis' Inspector General's Office
A brief, but potentially meaningful, procedural update for the record.
Billy Townsend
Feb 18
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