March 2014 - Florida Bulldog

By Dave Levinthal, Center for Public Integrity

David, left, and Charles Koch

The campus of Koch Brothers Academy spans a nation.

Learn about the “role of government institutions in a capitalistic society” at South Carolina’s College of Charleston.

Dive into the “integrated study of philosophy, politics and economics” at Duke University and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

And philosophize about the “moral imperatives of free markets and individual liberty” at the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy at Troy University in Alabama.

Citing broad public interest, newspapers ask judge to deny U.S. bid to block 9/11 lawsuit

March 26, 2014 6:10 am

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By Dan Christensen and Anthony Summers
BrowardBulldog.org
Two Florida newspapers have asked a Fort Lauderdale federal judge to deny the Justice Department’s effort to shut down a Freedom of Information lawsuit seeking records from an FBI investigation into apparent terrorist activity in Sarasota shortly before 9/11.

Wireless companies fight to control your cell phone as rare frequency auction looms

March 21, 2014 1:12 pm

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By Allan Holmes, Center for Public Integrity

The setting was ornate, the subject esoteric, but the implications huge.

The crowd that filed last month into the wood-paneled room 226 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building included lawmakers, lobbyists, company executives, and a few mystery guests — a roster that reflected the enormity of the issue at hand: nothing less than control of the growing wireless market and the hundreds of billions of dollars that go with it.

Gov. Scott chose a familiar face to manage his $72 million blind trust

March 19, 2014 6:05 am

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By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Most Floridians have never heard of Alan Lee Bazaar. Yet as chief executive of the New York investment advisory firm that serves as trustee of Gov. Rick Scott’s blind trust, Bazaar is the keeper of an important public trust for Florida’s citizens.

A modern day ‘Harvest of Shame’: Today’s blue collar temp laborers face abuses in Florida, elsewhere

March 14, 2014 1:21 pm

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This story was done in collaboration with VICE News.

By Michael Grabell, ProPublica

A photo from the CBS documentary ‘Harvest of Shame, left, and Chicago temp workers on a bus in the early morning hours of Jan. 18, 2013 Photo: CBS News, Sally Ryan for ProPublica

CRANBURY, N.J. – Half a century ago, the legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow came to this pancake-flat town in central New Jersey to document the plight of migrant farmworkers for a television special called “Harvest of Shame.”

Today, many of Cranbury’s potato fields have been built up with giant warehouses that form a distribution hub off Exit 8A of the Jersey Turnpike. But amid this 21st century system of commerce, an old way of labor persists.

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Inside the Koch brothers’ campus crusade; Billionaire industrialists investing in students

Citing broad public interest, newspapers ask judge to deny U.S. bid to block 9/11 lawsuit

Wireless companies fight to control your cell phone as rare frequency auction looms

Gov. Scott chose a familiar face to manage his $72 million blind trust

A modern day ‘Harvest of Shame’: Today’s blue collar temp laborers face abuses in Florida, elsewhere

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