Support The Commissioners That Have Supported Us
WE now have three commissioners that Big Sugar helped elect.
They've bought their way into our Chamber of Commerce and our Economic Council.
They have joined forces with the Lake Point rockpit people to try to get Sarah Heard and Ed fielding removed from the Martin County Commission.
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Support The Commissioners That Have Supported Us
WE now have three commissioners that Big Sugar helped elect.
They've bought their way into our Chamber of Commerce and our Economic Council.
They have joined forces with the Lake Point rockpit people to try to get Sarah Heard and Ed fielding removed from the Martin County Commission.
Do Not Give Up on Florida's Waterways
Hundreds of the world’s top Everglades scientists, policy experts, and engineers met this weekend to trade information and build consensus on how to keep Everglades restoration moving forward. As you’d expect with the ink barely dry on SFWMD’s Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir report to the legislature, the plan to revitalize South Florida’s estuaries dominated the discussion. Here are three telling points from the stage:
Taxpayers to SFWMD: We Deserve Better
Finally! There is now consensus that the SFWMD refused to follow the law in planning the EAA Reservoir, the project that fast-tracked reducing toxic discharges and rewatering the parched Everglades.
47 Years Later, John Whiticar's Got the Same Request
Whiticar Boat Works is a household name for many people in South Florida. For more than 60 years, the Whiticar family has remained a trusted brand in the sportfish boat building industry, made all the more memorable by its start in the sailfish Capitol of the World -- Stuart, FL.
The three paragraphs below are excerpts from a letter that John Whiticar wrote to the Stuart News 47 years ago, as an 18-year-old college student.
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Five Reasons Picking the Best EAA Reservoir Plan is Easy
The Florida legislature is about to get a 700-year-old philosophy lesson. William of Ockham's kernel of common sense from the 14th century--the simpler of two solutions is probably the better one--applies perfectly to the 21st century marvel we're designing to undo the damage we've done to our waterways.
Friends of the Everglades: Reservoir Plan Must Meet Clean Water Standards
Lawmakers cannot endorse an EAA reservoir plan that purposely violates federal water quality standards. That's the warning that Friends of the Everglades (FOE), the Miami-based conservation group founded by Marjory Stoneman Douglas, publicly sent to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection last week.
Consider 500, Then Add Nine More Zeroes
You'll have to excuse Florida Sportsman founder and editor-in-chief Karl Wickstrom for being blunt about the destruction of our estuaries. Blame a lifetime of listening to excuses and lies about it.
