Cypress Systems - Let's Be Smarter About Economic Development, op-ed submitted to Tallahassee Democrat, April 11, 2008

Crude Oil rose $4.51 today to top $100 per barrel, memo dated February 20, 2008

Yellow Flag: Rackleff raises the right cautions- Editorial, Tallahassee Democrat February 23, 2008

County Taxes - Letter to the Editor, June 22, 2007

Ready for Cuts?  The Impact of Property Tax Reform on Leon County Government
"My View" column, Tallahassee Democrat, June 7, 2007;

Remarks by Commissioner Bob Rackleff at the Rev. C. K. Steele Scholarship Foundation Annual Luncheon
Tallahassee, Florida February 24, 2007;

Judicial Elections STILL FAIR AND BALANCED? Article in Carnegie Reporter Magazine, Spring 2006

Election Reform:  Lessons from 2004 Article in Carnegie Reporter Magazine, Spring 2005

"Florida’s Transportation Affordability Problem"
By Bob Rackleff, Leon County Commissioner and Steering Committee Member, Florida 2025 Transportation Plan February 17, 2005;

Environmental Justice and Local Governments Speech
“Environmental Justice, Transportation and Local Governments” Bob Rackleff, at Southeast Regional Environmental Justice Conference Tallahassee, FL October 29, 2004;

"A Proposal to Create a Multimodal Transportation (Education) District"
"Commissioner Rackleff's Proposal distributed to local officials and university presidents in Tallahassee - Leon County, May 7, 2004";

A lesson to learn: the value of public service
"My View" column, Tallahassee Democrat, September 23, 2001;

Transportation Choices in an Elder-Ready Florida
"An Issue Paper by Leon County Commissioner Bob Rackleff, May 5, 2001";

Overturning Buckley - Can it be Done ?
"A landmark 1976 Supreme Court decision struck down all limits on spending for political campaigns.  Overturning that decision has become the clarion call for many campaign finance reformers";

Fatal accident highlights need for pipeline law
This County News Article describes a National Association of Counties (NACo) resolution sponsered by Commissioner Rackleff and adopted at NACo's 2000 annual meeting.  Leon County today is traversed by three high-pressure natural gas pipelines -- in some cases near homes and schools -- operated by the Florida Gas Transmission Company;

GAS PIPELINES - NATIONAL SAFETY CONCERN
-"Grieving Carlsbad," Albuquerque Tribune, 9/9/2000;

"The Economic Drag of Florida’s Over-Reliance on Personal Vehicle Transportation," a paper presented at the National Association of Counties Legislative Conference on March 3, 2000;

Essay - "Thinking Small" for Revitalized Downtown Tallahassee:
(Some Preliminary Thoughts about a Cultural Attractions Strategy, August 1999;

Keynote Speech, Annual Awards Banquet, Leon County Council of Neighborhood Associations, May 27, 1999;

"Economic Growth and the Tallahassee Regional Airport,"a memo dated May 24, 1999;

"Our Pedestrian Safety Crisis,"a memo dated April 19, 1999;

Article - "My View," Tallahassee Democrat, 12/14/98 (It's not too late to avoid blunder with Blair Stone);

Comments on Blairstone Road North Extension Workshop, Jan, 1998.