Joseph L. Conn, Church & State Magazine. June 21, 2008. Religious school scheme backed by the former Fla. governor has provoked a church-state showdown with national ramifications.
Mark Ristaino, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. June 2, 2008. Saturday's committee ruling on the Florida and Michigan primaries leaves Clinton supporters fuming.
Michael Grunwald, Grist.org. May 30, 2008. A flood control project in the region gave water managers power to move almost every drop of rain that fell south of Orlando.
Jon Ponder, Pensito Review AlterNet: Election 2008. May 23, 2008. On the cusp of securing the nomination, Senator Obama considers awarding half the state's delegates.
Wayne Barrett, Huffington Post. April 3, 2008. In both Michigan and Florida it was Republicans who fomented the move-up of primaries to dates out-of-line with the DNC calendar.
Trish, Pensito Review AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. March 24, 2008. Will Howard Dean cost the Democratic candidate the votes of Florida and Michigan?
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: PEEK. March 18, 2008. Get the sense that the campaigns, while touting principles, are really looking at this from purely self-serving interests? I do.
Richard Blair, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. March 13, 2008. When I first heard of the proposal, my thoughts were: ripe for fraud and ballot box stuffing.
Paddy, Cliff Schecter's Blog AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. March 7, 2008. A caucus favors Obama, and Clinton was hoping for just seating the delegates she already won in an unfair primary.
Richard Blair, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. March 3, 2008. This has been the weirdest presidential primary season in memory, so nothing is outside the realm of possibility at this point.
Trish, Pensito Review AlterNet: Election 2008. February 25, 2008. There are a bunch of reasons why John McCain might choose the Florida governor as his running mate, but the most compelling one is money.
Ben Armbruster, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. February 19, 2008. A 2005 national review gave Florida’s science standards a failing grade because of its "superficiality of the treatment of evolutionary biology."
David Sirota, Open Left AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. February 14, 2008. Egomania knows no bounds and no loyalty - not even to the founding principles of democracy.
Allen Raymond, AlterNet. January 30, 2008. Yesterday's vote in Florida proved that Republican primary voters haven't changed their stripes; they pick the candidate based on seniority.
Howie Klein, Down With Tyranny! AlterNet: PEEK. January 29, 2008. Earlier today his campaign chairman said it's pretty much all over for Giuliani, a victim of his own elitist strategy, which failed dismally.