Like many nonprofits that depend on government funding, the Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions is facing cuts. The organization that focuses on prenatal and infant health may have 22 percent trimmed from its 2009 budget. Unlike other nonprofits, however, the organization has proposed a solution. Healthy Start recently wrote to Governor Crist asking him to start charging a 40-cent-per-pack tax on cigarettes made by small tobacco companies. The country's three biggest
Summer's a great time to revisit the classics!​Here we are in the dog days of August, an excellent time to do a little summer re-reading. On the Juice's beachside reading list is the Grand Jury Report released in 2007 on the "Pay to Play" scandal in West Palm Beach. A Grand Jury was convened three years ago, due to pressure from local neighborhood activists and nonprofit organizations, to look into the question of how campaign contributions were affecting development contracts in West Pa