No Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday for Miami Parents This Year

I've been waiting to see the dates for Florida's back-to-school sales tax holiday, and just got around to actually looking it up online, since it is now well into August. And guess what? There isn't one this year! Hmmmm....not a big deal I guess, but chalk another one up on the list of "how this dismal economy is affecting all of us in hundreds of little ways." It's the little ways that I notice throughout the day--every time I'm driving around town and see yet another restaurant or small business shuttered, bracing myself for the report on the state of things at Skyler's public elementary school in a few weeks, the email from the Miami Childrens Museum asking for support in fighting near across-the-board arts funding cuts. The big hits, we read about in the news every day, but the little things that are affecting Miami families add up too.