If anyone’s interested, there’s a slideshow/album here of images I took during a recent back road trip from West Palm Beach to Chiefland.
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Daily Archives: July 1, 2007
Ronald Toops wants to change social studies education for Florida children.
Ronald Toops wants to change social studies education for Florida children.Toops … is the state education chairman of the Florida Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, so naturally he’s passionate about both education and American history. Therefore, he was thrilled when he was chosen to serve on the framing committee of the Sunshine State Standards revisions for social studies. Especially because he’s not happy with the current state of social studies education in Florida.
Sens. Nelson, Martinez fight seismic exploration in Gulf
Sens. Nelson, Martinez fight seismic exploration in Gulf | theledger.com
Sen. Mel Martinez, a Republican, and Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat, promised Friday to block the progress of a $32.3 billion Senate energy and water bill that includes the money for seismic exploration in the Gulf.Nelson took the Senate floor to complain that the senators’ agreement to back expansion of offshore drilling in the Gulf in exchange for language protecting Florida from further exploration was being broken.
“What do you want to do an inventory for oil for unless you want to drill?” Nelson asked.
Florida politicians have historically opposed Gulf drilling because of fears it will cause spills and pollution that could damage the state’s beaches and environment and interfere with military training and weapons testing.
