May 28 InWeekly a must-read
- May 29, 2015
- / Randy Hammer
- / economy
You need to check out the May 28 InWeekly.
It is one of the strongest editions that Rick Outzen and his Independent News staff has published this year.
Be sure to read:
— Outzen’s cover story on Florida’s struggle to fund health care for the uninsured. The state legislature isn’t the only government body that has been putting off this year for years. Rick does a good job of reminding readers that Escambia County has also struggled with funding for the uninsured. When Escambia shut down the county-funded University Hospital in 1992, the burden of providing health-care for the poor and uninsured fell to Baptist Health Care and Sacred Heart Health System. Twice Escambia County had the opportunity to vote on referendums to fund health care for the poor, and twice voters overwhelmingly rejected them. Now here we are in 2015 and the problem isn’t just an Escambia issue, but a state and national issue that has brought the Florida legislature to a standstill. Rick does a good job of laying the history of the problem as well as the power plays going on in Tallahassee.
— An overview of the Escambia County School Board’s decision to terminate the contracts of Newpoint Pensacola High and Newpoint Academy. The State Attorney’s office is investigating allegations of grade tampering at the charter schools.
— A story by T.S. Strickland on a Harvard University study that mapped rates of income mobility across the country. The study looked at the likelihood of children’s ability to improve their economic prospects later in life. Of 2,478 counties in the United States, Escambia County ranked in the bottom 2 percent, and was next-to-last in the state. Strickland does a good job of laying out the ways that generational poverty holds back children in Escambia.
— Outzen’s Outtakes column on page 5 that’s headlined “Six Simple Questions” and outlines issues that Escambia, Pensacola and Santa Rosa Island politicians and leaders will need to address in the last half of the year.
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