Category: Florida
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A proposed law for Florida seeks merit pay for teachers; major school districts nervous
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
Officials of teachers’ unions in Broward and Miami-Dade are wary of a newly filed bill that establishes teachers pay based on performance and places limitations on tenure. -
House sponsor quickly withdraws “nuclear bomb” of Florida pension reform
By William Gjebre and Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Hammered with “thousands of emails and hundreds of phone calls” from angry police officers across the state, a rookie legislator Thursday withdrew his week-old bill seeking to overhaul Florida’s public retirement plans. -
Proposed overhaul of Florida’s public retirement plans would limit benefits, end popular DROP program
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
With the state facing a mounting financial crisis, a new bill has been proposed that would slash retirement benefits for state and local government employees. -
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Wall Street quietly creates a way to profit from homeowner distress
By Fred Schulte
Huffington Post Investigative Fund
When Florida retiree Gladys Walker fell behind in paying taxes on her modest Pompano Beach home, she had no idea one of America’s biggest banks and a major Wall Street hedge fund engaged in frenzied bidding for the right to collect her debt—all $768.25 of it. -
Rove-backed PACs pump cash to help Rubio, West
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
In a stunning onslaught of political spending, conservative political action committees tied to Republican strategist Karl Rove have paid out more than $2 million in the past three weeks to boost Republican-Tea Party U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio. -
Backers of a new Broward ethics in government political committee hide in the shadows
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
A new political attack ad committee was launched in Fort Lauderdale last week, but who is behind it and why is largely a mystery. The group operates under the name The Committee for Ethics in Government. Its address is a mail drop at a downtown UPS store. Messages left on its voicemail draw no response.
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