From The Sunday Editorial Pages Along The I-4 Corridor

Daytona Beach News-Journal:  So Long, Gov. Green, Vanishing In Political Smog – The newspaper laments the apparant reversal of Governor Charlie Crist’s activism from two years ago on enviromential issues, now that he is running for the U.S. Senate and seemingly needing to put up more of a radical conservative front to attract the Republican base to get through the primary.

Orlando Sentinel:  Still Miles To Go – The opinion is that while the Central Florida Partnership has made some significant achievements to brag about, there are still a number of areas that it and it’s signatories should work harder on when it comes to “end the damage that policy-makers keep doing”.

Lakeland Ledger:  Community Colleges – Use Obama Plan To Help Propel PSC -  A supportive word for President Obama’s American Graduation Initiative, which would end the subsidies that government currently provide to banks and private lenders for student loans and put $12 billion into the nation’s community colleges over the next decade to help struggling workers prepare for new careers and boost the number of graduates by five million during that period.

Tampa Tribune:  A Voucher Breakthrough – The paper notes that the Hillsborough County teachers’ union — who strongly oppose the idea of vouchers to pay for poor children to attend private schools — is partnering with the school district and Step Up for Students, a nonprofit that oversees the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship effort, which does just that.  It is of the hope that “mature perspective will help union leaders see that vouchers pose no threat to public schools”.

St. Petersburg Times:  Dawdling While Cash Sits Waiting -  While Florida has done virtually all of what it needs to do to get started on an I-4 light rail line, the editorial says that state officials have been AWOL, asking “Where is Gov. Charlie Crist, the Senate president, the House speaker and the leaders of the state’s Democratic Party?“