Articles by: Gil Smart
“Never has one elected official so blatantly sold out his community and left a legacy of destruction of our precious and fragile water resources.” FAREWELL, MR. CALDWELL By Ray Judah After eight years of sponsoring legislation designed to undermine water…
Thank you so much. Because of Bullsugar supporters, the fight for clean water is on a new path. A year ago we celebrated effort and possibilities. The passion of a few dedicated people pushed Florida’s water crises into the open and…
The future of Florida’s water can take a different direction depending on the outcome of any of these four uncertainties: 1. Nikki Fried’s campaign says her team–with the help of Bullsugar.org voters–has ousted Matt Caldwell from Florida politics. Called one…
Bullsugar.org voters helped clean water politicians from both parties score impressive victories on Tuesday. Even as sugarcane-funded candidates spent millions to protect key offices for their big donors, water policy influenced nearly every race. One in particular might still turn on water issues.…
Talented documentary filmmakers weave complex issues into stories you can’t look away from. Spencer Miller does even more with Sweetwater: He tells a deeply personal, sad, and ultimately hopeful story about the decline of South Florida’s waterways and the fight…
Agriculture Commissioner candidate Matt Caldwell’s policies may be more responsible for this year’s toxic blooms than any other Florida politician’s. TOXIC CALDWELL By Ray Judah The statewide Republican primary for Commissioner of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services…
Holly Raschein has spent a career voting to gut hundreds of millions from Everglades protection funding, voted multiple times to delay cleanup of Lake Okeechobee (the source of toxic green algae plaguing our waters), advocates for letting polluters off the hook from paying to…
Ashley Guzi spent the night of September 1st waiting for the news that Costa, her four-year-old golden retriever, was dead. She stared at her phone, thinking about how she’d tell her children. Meanwhile the staff at Pet Emergency of Martin…
Congressman Brian Mast recently introduced the Stop Harmful Discharges Act (HR 6700). It is a potential game-changer for Everglades Restoration. Bullsugar.org was honored to be part of the team that worked on the bill. The bill’s language is simple, but…
Hurricane Michael reminds us there are more important things than politics. But as we also know, natural and man-made disasters are politicized too, including this hurricane and the recently authorized EAA Reservoir, which passed the Senate yesterday 99-1 as part…