By CHRIS MEGERIAN, Associated Press, March 10, 2023. WASHINGTON — With Republicans in control of the House, there’s no chance that President Joe Biden’s new budget plan will become law as it stands. Instead, the financial blueprint that he announced Thursday in Philadelphia will serve as a political talking point for a president preparing to
By John Kennedy, Capital Bureau | USA TODAY NETWORK – FLORIDA, Mar 4, 2023. TALLAHASSEE – Policy moves that may appeal to conservative voters across the country but will strike directly at Floridians are what Gov. Ron DeSantis is demanding from the Republican-controlled Legislature during the 2023 session. But here’s a spoiler alert. GOP lawmakers are poised to give DeSantis everything he
By Henry Louis Gates Jr., The New York Times, Feb 17, 2023. Dr. Gates is the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard. He is the host of the PBS television series “Finding Your Roots.” Lurking behind the concerns of Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, over the content of
By Molly Jong-Fast, Vanity Fair, February 16, 2023 Florida’s wannabe autocrat and possible 2024 contender isn’t Trump, but he’s as dangerous to democracy. Trumpism without Donald Trump has long been a fantasy of the GOP donor class. Plenty of things about the Trump presidency generally delighted Republicans, like the tax breaks for the wealthy, the desire to
By Fabiola Cineas, Vox.com, Feb 15, 2023 From book bans to a hostile campus takeover, here’s a rundown of DeSantis’s conservative plan for Florida education. In 2020, Ron DeSantis’s administration declared him the “Education Governor” for how eager he was to dramatically change the state’s education system. Three years later, he’s provoked — and been
By Bea Dixon, PhD, Democratic Political Activist, January 25, 2023. While the issue of gas stoves may not be anywhere near the most important one facing America, how the Republicans vs. Democrats approached the issue is instructive about the current state of our politics. Here are examples of how various Republicans approached the matter: In
By Bill McKibben and Akaya Windwood, The New York Times, Jan. 22, 2023. Mr. McKibben is the founder of Third Act, a group that organizes older Americans for progressive action. Ms. Windwood is the lead adviser for Third Act. Is it time to call the next election “the most important in American history”? Probably. It seems like it
A close look at the course reveals just the sort of interdisciplinary rigor students need to succeed. By JOSHUA ZEITZ, Politico.com Magazine, January 31, 2023 Joshua Zeitz, a Politico Magazine contributing writer, is the author of Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson’s White House. Follow him @joshuamzeitz. In the latest escalation of America’s ever-present political culture war, Florida
By Christine Jordan Sexton, Florida Politics, January 19, 2023. As many as 1.75 million Floridians could lose Medicaid coverage once the state begins taking steps on April 1 to return its Medicaid program to pre-pandemic levels. Appearing before House and Senate health care panels, officials in the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis said Florida will focus its
By Patricia Mazzei, The New York Times, Jan 11, 2023. MIAMI — Lídice Hernández opened an insurance agency last year on a busy street, affixing to the storefront a logo that has become deeply familiar in South Florida: a white sun rising over the red stripes of the American flag, all encased in a big, blue
By Scott S. Greenberger | Pew Stateline, January 14, 2023. Terry Kilgore has been a Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates since 1994. During that time, there have been four years in which the GOP controlled the governor’s office and both chambers of the legislature. For two years, Democrats held complete control. In
Hispanics make gains, while for 3rd time in history, Senate president is a woman By Mark Harper, The Daytona Beach News-Journal, Jan 3, 2022. While Republicans make up 36% of voters in the November election, 71% of lawmakers are Republicans. Two-thirds of the House are white-only, while 18.3% are Black. The Senate is 70% white,
By John Fetterman, Democracy Docket, January 5, 2023 When I decided to run for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat, I knew this wouldn’t be a typical campaign. I’m not a typical candidate, and this is not a typical time. I announced my campaign just days after the Jan. 6 attack on our Capitol, with our country
By Jim Hightower, Tribune Media, Dec 28, 2023. The craziest political word of the year is “woke,” as in “Don’t be woke!” It’s a command barked by far-right-wing fomenters of a hokey culture war and their political toadies. Their intent is to demonize and shut up schoolteachers, preachers, librarians, historians, musicians, students, websites, business executives and
By Robert B. Hubbell As we enter 2023, there is no escaping the fact that we are beginning the long march toward the presidential election of 2024. As we start that journey, we have every reason to be confident about our ability to rise to the occasion. We did so in 2022, as we did
By Bryce Covert, Guest Columnist, The New York Times, Dec. 27, 2022. Ms. Covert is a journalist who focuses on the economy, with an emphasis on policies that affect workers and families. The 117th Congress has finished its work, with little to offer American children. Lawmakers were unable to muster a deal to combine an extension of
By Charlotte County Administrator Hector Flores, published in The Daily Sun on Dec 31, 2022. With the New Year almost upon us, we’re looking ahead to 2023 as a year of challenges. As I wrote in last week’s column, our approach will be to turn challenges into opportunities. Ongoing recovery from Hurricane Ian will be
There’s no question that 2022 was challenging. A stubborn pandemic, Russia’s devastating war in Ukraine and the resulting inflation have all squeezed American families. Those challenges are real. But they’re also part of what made the year a relative success story. Even with these headwinds, the unemployment rate remains at historic lows, the workers who
By DANIELLE J. BROWN, Florida Phoenix, Dec 8, 2022 Florida ranks among the top 10 states with the highest rates of uninsured children across the United States, with an estimated 332,000 kids, from newborns to age 17, who were uninsured during 2021, according to nationwide data from Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. State
By GARY FINEOUT , Politico Florida Playbook, Dec 7, 2022. Before the court — A lot of attention will be directed to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) as it takes up a North Carolina redistricting case that could determine the future of elections nationwide, including Florida’s. The case known as Moore v. Harper centers around
By David Von Drehle, Washington Post Columnist, Dec 2, 2022. One cannot be surprised to find the Republican Party adrift. This is what happens to ships boarded by pirates, plundered and set aflame on the high seas. Poor Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), leader of the House majority-to-be: How glum he looks as the Cuckoo Caucus binds his hands to
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