Category: florida politics
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Big Sugar Summit: Daren Bakst, Heritage Foundation
@PatrickMurphyFL @Heritage @darenbakst Big Sugar Summit: Daren Bakst, Heritage Foundation Daren Bakst is a Research Fellow In Agricultural Policy, Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity at the Heritage Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation “The Heritage Foundation is an American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. The foundation took a leading role in the conservative movement during the…
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Big Sugar Summit: Richard Grosso, Environmental Legal Eagle!
Big Sugar Summit: Richard Grosso, Environmental Legal Eagle! Richard Grosso is Director, Environmental and Land Use Law Clinic. Shepard Broad Law Center, Nova Southeastern University. http://evergladeslaw.org/about/history/ History of The Everglades Law Center Our Beginning “In 1990, a small group of law professors and lawyers created the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center, Inc. to establish…
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Big Sugar Summit: Stephen E. Davis III PHD, Wetland Ecologist. Science Guy!
Big Sugar Summit: Stephen E. Davis III PHD, Wetland Ecologist, The Everglades Foundation This presentation will available thru the Sierra Club, Florida in full with all the slides. So enjoy this preview. http://www.evergladesfoundation.org/what-we-do/science/ “The Foundation employs a team of scientists to serve as technical expert sources for the environmental community. These resources include providing sworn…
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Big Sugar Summit: Dr Gail Hollander, “Raising Cane in the Glades.”
Dr Gail Hollander is an Associate Professor of Geography, Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University. She is the author of “Raising Cane in the Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida.
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Who owns U.S. Sugar?
US Sugar are convicted Felons” said Barley. “They plead guilty to knowingly putting hazardous waste in the water. In our water. Then backpumping it back into Lake Okeechobee. ” “Why should we allow convicted criminals to buy our politicians?”
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Throwback Thurs: What was penny a pound and make the polluter pay?
Throwback Thurs: What was penny a pound and make the polluter pay? As always, if you have something to add please add it. What was penny a pound? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_of_the_Everglades “Restoration of the Everglades, however, briefly became a bipartisan cause in national politics. A controversial penny-a-pound (2 cent/kg) tax on sugar was proposed to fund some…
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Then this Happened: Amendment One Lawsuit!
Anything to gag us. Because we elected kings, queens, lords apparently they feel like they have no responsibility towards us
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Stealing amendment 1 money should be a crime.
Stealing amendment 1 money should be a crime. We need an amendment that says if lawmakers do not support our citizen amendments they get charged with a crime. After all it is stealing. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fred-grimm/article24812611.html Instead, as Craig Pittman and Michael Auslen of the Tampa Bay Times reported, that great pile of Amendment 1 money is…
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The Florida Legislature Gags Health Care Workers. How not to save a life.
The Florida Legislature Gags Health Care Workers. How not to save a life. Just file this under “Kick me in the head.” As well as others, like people who don’t want their houses to float away in Miami, or their drinking water to be all salty, or just us folks here in Stuart/Jensen Beach that…
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Sugar U: Fanjuls some history and a little trouble in Paradise.
Sugar U: Fanjuls. Some history and a little trouble in Paradise. The Fanjul Bro’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanjul_brothers The Fanjul brothers — Cuban born Alfonso “Alfy” Fanjul, José “Pepe” Fanjul, Alexander Fanjul, and Andres Fanjul — are owners of Fanjul Corp., a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It comprises…
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