After 10 Glorious Years, Sunshine State News and I Are Passing the Baton

Former Florida House Democratic Leader Franklin Sands of Weston sent out a statement on Monday attacking Delta Airlines for entering a business agreement with Saudi Arabian Airlines. Sands hammered Saudi Arabian Airlines for refusing to fly passengers who have visited Israel in recent months.

Gov. Rick Scott embarked on a bill-signing tour of the state Monday, visiting schools in Ocoee, St. Petersburg and Fort Lauderdale in order to highlight the signing of a spate of bills expanding charter and virtual schools. Scott touted the bills as a way to buttress his efforts to bring jobs to Florida by creating a highly-skilled and highly-educated work force.

With the state teachers' union in an uproar over Florida's new pension law, how do charter schools handle retirement? A new study reports that fewer than only about one in six charters participate in the Florida Retirement System and, thus, will be unaffected by the change in contribution requirements. Read the report here.

If this had happened to my mother, I would have gone so ballistic, they would have me in leg-irons. This from CNN: "The Transportation Security Administration stood by its security officers Sunday after a Florida woman complained that her cancer-stricken, 95-year-old mother was patted down and forced to remove her adult diaper while going through security. "Reports of the incident took hold in social media, with scores of comments on the topic and reposts appearing hourly on Twitter Sunday afternoon.