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2.2.2004
Writing to the test
The artificiality of FCAT grading has led English teachers to drill kids in writing highly formulaic 5-graph essays with a structure more rigid than a sonnet. St Pete Times runs a good feature on test-writing. My daughter's high school experience: teachers telling her that FCAT-essay writing style is "good writing," anything else is "bad writing." College English teachers find they have to break kids of absurd FCAT-induced writing habits.
Lane | 2.2.04
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1.31.2004
Another blog heard from
The always helpful Infomaniac tells us of yet another Florida blog by a journalist. First-n-Main by Joe Newman of the Sentinel.
It's devoted to "growth, the environment and urban design." Yes, there is no such thing as urban design but the other two topics should leave him busy enough that it won't matter. Has a very cool view of 1884 Key West in the upper left and a whole lotta linkage. Nice design. Content rich.
Lane | 31.1.04
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Don't let the screendoor hit you! (Cont.)
Gov. Bush defends Struhs. Bush says Struhs' new job with a big-time polluter was not a pay-off. Says he was not an unconvincing front man for an anti-environmental agenda. "I'm just sad he left," he said.
I'm sure he is.
(From the Republicans at Sayfie.)
Lane | 30.1.04
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Voucher fraud arrest
James Isenhour, head of an Ocala correspondence school, was arrested and charged with stealing $268,125 through a state voucher program.
Isenhour, through his Silver Archer Foundation, collected a $268,125 contribution from Pulte Homes Inc., but instead of using the money to provide students with vouchers, Isenhour paid it to his companies, himself and others, including his lawyer, said Mark Simpson, the assistant state attorney in Marion County who is handling the case.
"Not one dime of the money was used for scholarships at all," Simpson said.
St. Pete Times version here. Orlando Sentinel here.
The widespread abuses of Florida's voucher program first came to light last summer in a number of excellent Palm Beach Post articles by S.V. Date. (Something that has not made him Mr. Popularity with the governor's office. )The Post has posted the whole series.
Lane | 30.1.04
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Don't let the screen door hit you!
The St. Pete Times headline says it all -- State: DEP chief will join company he helped.
David Struhs to leave the state Dept. of Environmental Protection to take a job with a paper company he once regulated with a light hand. But this isn't a pay-off, uh-uh. (Tallahassee Dem version here. The Pensalcola News Journal story, with details on his helpfulness to International Paper, here.)
Most Florida Environmentalists say "good riddance" with the exception of the go-along/get-along Florida Audubon Society. Florida Sierra has posted the case against David Struhs in handy PDF form. It put that together back when he was rumored to be in the running to head the federal DEA.
He will be mainly remembered for weakening Everglades clean-up and for allowing a cement plant near the Ichetucknee River.
"My goal is to now take many of the lessons you have provided me here and apply them in a global context," Struhs said in an e-mail to DEP employees.
Many fear that he will.
Lane | 29.1.04
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Shock jock shocked
Clear Channel fined $755,000 over Florida "Bubba the Love Sponge" broadcasts.
There are no good guys here.
First, there is a cynical radio monopoly so mendacious its executives can say things like this: "None of us defend or encourage indecent content - it's simply not part of our corporate culture."
This is too rich. Not part of their corporate culture? It's part of their corporate formula.
Then, there is the loathsome Bubba the Love Sponge Clem who shifts from vulgarian in-your-face sleazemaster to self-pitying victim. "Nobody gives me a fair shake," he says.
And there's the FCC, which has no trouble at all with consolidation of radio broadcasting into the hands of a few corporations and sees its real challenge as fighting "indecency." It wants Congress to increase the maximum fine for indecency from $27,500 per incident to $275,000.
Lane | 28.1.04
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