What are the main issues the State of Florida faces today?
Florida is the canary in the coalmine, and it’s choking on its last tweet. Florida is lower, flatter, hotter, and getting more crowded faster than any other state in the continental U.S. Florida faces the same issues the rest of the country faces, but certain issues stand out. We are in greater danger than any other state from global warming and climate change. We have more than our share of ugly, dysfunctional architecture and poor town planning. Our State Board of Administration (SBA), which administers the financial nest egg of over 1000 schools, municipalities, pension funds, the state lottery, the hurricane disaster fund, and other monies, lost $61 billion in the 18 months preceding March 2009. The funds were mismanaged even after many audits and critical reports warned the current trustees of risky practices. The trustees are Governor Charlie Crist, CFO Alex Sink and Attorney General Bill McCollum. Crist is now running for Senate, while Sink and McCollum are running against me fo
