Steve Bousquet

4 days ago | sun-sentinel.com | Steve Bousquet

This isn’t Jeri Pryor’s first rodeo. Pryor is the Delray Beach city employee who sought whistleblower protection after claiming that she was threatened with the loss of her job by City Commissioner Rob Long. On April 28, Pryor filed a written complaint with City Attorney Lynn Gelin that Long interceded on behalf of businessman Rodney Mayo, whose Subculture coffee shop has repeatedly been a city target for possible code violations.

1 week ago | orlandosentinel.com | Steve Bousquet

"The power to propose the revision or amendment of any portion or portions of this constitution by initiative is reserved to the people ... "Those words are in Article XI, Section 3 of the Florida Constitution, approved by voters in 1968. Voters that year modernized the state's governing document in so many ways taken for granted today, such as home rule powers of cities and counties or the requirement for an annual 60-day session of the Legislature.

1 week ago | sun-sentinel.com | Steve Bousquet

“The power to propose the revision or amendment of any portion or portions of this constitution by initiative is reserved to the people … ”Those words are in Article XI, Section 3 of the Florida Constitution, approved by voters in 1968. Voters that year modernized the state’s governing document in so many ways taken for granted today, such as home rule powers of cities and counties or the requirement for an annual 60-day session of the Legislature.

2 weeks ago | sun-sentinel.com | Steve Bousquet

The colorful sign outside the state Capitol for Palm Beach County Days said “Love the Palm Beaches,” a promotion for one of Florida’s most popular and best-known tourist destinations. The Legislature sure has a strange way of showing its love. One of the most radical ideas this session is to kill the tourism goose in Florida, by diverting tourist tax money from tourism-related projects to property tax relief.

3 weeks ago | sun-sentinel.com | Steve Bousquet

As a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High during the 2018 mass shooting, I write with a heavy heart to convey an urgent message that no student should ever have to hear from a teacher. I watched as a former MSD student of mine, Stephanie Horowitz, now a graduate student at FSU, who was teaching a class in the student union at the time of the shooting there, spoke on national TV after surviving yet another school shooting. “Here we are again. This is America,” she said.