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Florida is quickly becoming a much older, less creative version of California, with none of the homegrown industry or attempts to recruit, develop, and…
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May 3Comment 1Share
$1 billion per year has produced few -- if any -- products worth buying in Florida's voucher marketplace. That's because markets alone don't create cap…
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Apr 25Comment 1Share
Also, Sheriff Grady Judd sounds like he's bored with being Polk County's sheriff and is auditioning for an OAN show. Recapping DeSantis' government-spo…
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Apr 20CommentShare
Remember those Florida dates that live in...meh? No, probably not. What that tells us about our own worth, relative to our forebears.
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Apr 17CommentShare
A "Sparrow Academy" experience demonstrates why the Step Up for Students voucher school "marketplace" needs a grand jury, a Grady Judd task force, and …
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Apr 12Comment 2Share
Billy and Julie's Hot Tub Talk, Ep. 4: The lessons of waiting tables will keep you -- and A…Listen now (71 min) | What we learned from the egalitarian sisterhood/brotherhood of fajita slinging. It could save your life -- at least from flood-lo…
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Apr 7CommentShare
Lakeland/Polk's government of, by, and for indulgent inheritance "wingmen" is an embarrassing dead end. We should try to work together to accomplish re…
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Apr 5Comment 2Share
Help us end Big Test/Jeb Crow. We could create equity together by rebuilding the capacity you've helped bad people destroy. You may have to swallow som…
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Apr 1Comment 4Share
Power used the Tampa Bay Times' Pulitzer tagline to strip mine Florida's public schools. It largely ignored the Orlando Sentinel's better, further-reac…
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Mar 22CommentShare
Billy and Julie's Hot Tub Talk, Ep. 3: Harrison Ford is always Denzel Washington -- or some…Listen now (54 min) | Asking the eternal questions: Is George Clooney always George Clooney? Does a "Meryl Streep" exist? It's a special 25th wedding a…
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Mar 16Comment 1Share
Grift inflation is coming. Know your voucher grifters now to avoid them in the ESA future. Also regulate voucher schools like banks so public schools d…
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Mar 14CommentShare
Do John McKay and the Gardiners know that Ron DeSantis and Doug Tuthill and Richard Corcoran are destroying everything they worked for and attached to …
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