IFAS Musters Weak Response to Palmer
* In the Gainesville Sun, a University of Florida professor has responded to Dr. Bob Palmer’s recent editorial (see our post “For $4.2 Million, IFAS Needs to Get it Right”) where he exposes the flawed […]
MFL Approved For Crystal River & Kings Bay
Despite about 30 people requesting the opposite, the governing board of the Southwest Florida Water Management District approved the recommendation of their staff, and approved an 11 per cent reduction in flow for the river […]
Trump is right about that wall. I’m thinking just south of Paynes Prairie is a good place for it
One solution to save Gainesville from becoming a refugee center, says Mr. Cunningham, is to build Donald Trump’s notorious wall just south of Paynes Prairie. One of our favorite environmental columnists, Ron Cunningham, has published […]
Bob Palmer: Can agriculture and healthy springs coexist?
“DEP’s presentation was a bracing dose of reality not typically seen or heard from our state environmental agencies.” Rarely do we get a statement like the one above, but we will happily take it. […]
Solar Solutions and Climate Change Forum
Today March 26, 2017, in Gainesville at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, there took place a forum on solar solutions and climate change. The forum was presented by the Interfaith Climate Group and the Unitarian […]
Columbia Co. Commission Chair Williams Fined For Law Violation
By CARL MCKINNEY cmckinney@lakecityreporter.com The Florida Elections Commission has found that County Commission Chairman Ron Williams violated state election law last summer. Williams paid a $250 fine to the FEC for using county resources to […]
Any Form of Fracking Is Unsafe
The following op-ed appeared today, Feb. 4 2017, in the Pensacola News Journal. It has been submitted to several other newspapers throughout the state, and was inspired by an opinion piece in the Sun Sentinel […]
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