Regional news for April 16th, 2008
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For those who survived April 15th, here’s what the newspapers in our region find newsworthy.
Everyone is still talking about the Mulberry 8. 911 tape released in video beating of Polk County cheerleader (Sentinel); Beating Victim: ‘I Just Got Jumped’ (Ledger)
Someone woke up the sleeping giant as the Lakeland Ledger published a report of the company’s two month investigation into the CSX/Orlando/Winter Haven Commuter Rail/ILC Project: Inquiry: Train Plan Railroaded Secretly
Free health clinics are also taking a beating in a Sentinel report.
In a story that will make headlines the first time someone pulls a gun on a co-worker for taking the last Friday Donut, Gov. Crist Signs Guns at Work Law; (Ledger). (Tribune)
State legislators are looking to kill the Florida Communities Trust according to a Sentinel editorial. and the Tribune, Lawmakers Should Not Monkey With Essential Growth Tool
The Isn’t That Ironic Award goes to the Sentinel today with an editorial against giving subsidies to farmers: Our position: It’s outrageous to give farm subsidies while food prices are skyrocketing
Meanwhile, a plan to increase cigarette taxes will die according to Governor Crist.
Housing values continue to plunge, Pinellas Property Values Log Biggest Decrease In Decades
Finally, in a headline designed to shock Tribune readers the paper states, Sen. Storms Gets One Right. The Senator is sponsoring a bill to “require state agencies and local governments to electronically post specific information on contracts of $5,000 or more. And to the extent possible, the contract itself would be put on line.”
Not a bad idea. What about another bill that would bar state officials from entering in to confidentiality agreements with private companies?
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