Category: florida legislature
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Florida Legislators: Here’s your reading list!
A reading list for Floridians and those who want to move there.
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Florida! Let the Good Times Roll!
“*SEVEN MONTHS OF DRINKING WATER: The amount of Lake Okeechobee water drained east and west and out to sea was enough to supply about seven months of drinking water for the nearly seven million people in Palm Beach County, Broward County, Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys. Water plants in southeast Florida churn out about…
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Our Fairy Godmother Mary Barley
Fairy Godmothers are magically-gifted women who monitor magical forces across the kingdoms. Whenever events are right for a fairy tale to recur, the relevant Fairy Godmother steps in to make sure that the tale in question runs its course with as few fatalities as possible.
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Unpaid volunteers make choices about our water
www.sfwmd.gov/portal/page/portal/xweb about us/governing board The South Florida Water Management District is directed by nine Governing Board members who set policy for the agency. They reside within the agency’s 16-county region and represent a cross section of interests, including the environment, agriculture, local government, recreation and business. Governing Board members are unpaid citizen volunteers appointed by…
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Call to Action: Ban Fracking in Florida: CRITICAL
Guest blogger today This is from my friend Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson. Call to Action: Ban Fracking in Florida: CRITICAL, please share… Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:30 pm in Tallahassee. Please make phone calls or attend Senate Environmental Preservation and Conservation Committee. Frack bill, SB 1582 will allow well operators to hide the chemicals they use from the public. Frack…
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A River Warrior Gets out the Vote
So here we are on election eve 2014. A while back when I lived in Boca i said I would never be involved in politics again. At the beginning I felt like I was being dragged by wild horses but this never left me. This line by my friend Mary Baum, the Indian Riverkeeper. This…
