Identifying Local Opportunities
- Inlet Beach Residents worried about impact of 2 developments
- https://www.newsherald.com/news/20200125/inlet-beach-residents-worried-about-impact-of-2-developments
- 2 new developments are coming to one of the more private areas left within Inlet Beach
- Fear of damage to the dunes, stormwater runoff, flooding, and increased vehicle traffic
- Current residents of Inlet Beach
- Panama City Beach floats job site concealed carry policy
- https://www.newsherald.com/news/20200124/panama-city-beach-floats-job-site-concealed-carry-policy
- Panama City Beach Council is considering permitting employees to carry firearms at work but wants input from the community
- The belief is that workplace shooting increases when employees are allowed to carry firearms
- The Panama City Beach council
- High court nominee barred from serving under Constitution
- https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2020/01/24/finalist-florida-supreme-court-couldnt-take-job-six-months/4565196002/
- A finalist for the Florida Supreme court is current barred from serving under the current Constitution laws
- The finalist has not been a member of the Florida Bar for the past 10 years
- Circuit Judge Renatha Francis
- Legislature holds hearing from Unions on impasse in state worker contract negotiations
- https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2020/01/23/legislature-holds-hearing-impasse-contract-negotiations/4551994002/
- State workers are currently in contract negotiations for a pay raise but they are still trying to obtain the approval on the last person necessary
- Workers feel like they deserve a 5% pay raise along with COLA increases however they haven't received approval yet.
- State Workers
- Here's a small victory for climate change in Florida
- https://www.tallahassee.com/story/opinion/2020/01/25/heres-small-victory-climate-change-florida-opinion/4559668002/
- The State of Florida now feels like it is no longer in the climate change deniers club
- In previous years the State of Florida has not been able to admit there is such thing to climate change because they didn't have funding for any sort of solution
- Southern Coastal states including Florida
Hi Shannon,
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting that Panama city would consider letting employees carry firearms on the job. I don't personally think that letting employees carry firearms would do anything good for the community, as I believe we should focus on taking guns out of the wrong people's hands, not encouraging everyone to get a gun. It will be interesting to see what the community as a whole ends up saying about this matter, but I could only imagine this issue being highly controversial. Good work.