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Irma’s next victims will be the fishing, hospitality, artist, and service communities in South Florida. The next urgent task is to help supplement those without sufficient financial buffers against unexpected catastrophe of this scale. As recovery begins, we should be…
With weeks left in the 2017 hurricane season, and open speculation about how long the Herbert Hoover dike can hold back a rising Lake Okeechobee, how can the sugar industry possibly justify adding to the danger by back-pumping billions of gallons of water off…
Your help is still needed. For every person sighing in relief at a near miss, there’s another who’s lost everything to Irma. As Florida begins the long process of recovery, thousands of people still need our help. The Center for International Disaster…
Please stay safe and look after your neighbors as Hurricane Irma tracks toward Florida. All people in South Florida are vulnerable to storms like this. We need a water management system that provides better protection for everyone here, and we need…
Email records prove that a U.S. Sugar lobbyist has been directing policy at a state agency. TC Palm’s Lucas Daprile uncovered a truth this week that too many people already knew: Sugar controls the South Florida Water Management District and actively blocks…
Did Martin County taxpayers get their money’s worth from the $10 million waterpark funded by a recent sales tax hike? Commissioner Ed Ciampi stood up before twenty or so attendees at last week’s town hall and delivered the answer… One-point-three…
Martin County residents should VOTE AGAINST the 1 percent tax on Tuesday, August 29, 2017. Doug Smith’s Martin County Board of County Commissioners (MCBCC) majority does not deserve a $230 million dollar blank check in the name of water quality.1 …
Sugar isn’t the only corrupt industry that can buy communities to silence complaints about its pollution. But it might be the only one that gets taxpayers to pick up the cost. Martin County taxpayers are being pushed by Flint, Michigan-based…
Matt Hauck started fly fishing in Florida more than 25 years ago. Today he chases redfish from Jacksonville to the Keys and heads to Flamingo to find snook as often as he can. But a recent trip to Florida Bay…
The key to making the EAA reservoir work might have been under our feet all along. Scientists have said for years that the project can’t succeed without enough land. To stop discharges to the coasts and restore the Everglades, the system…