Category: florida politics
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Bring it on Home: The Pacific Legal Foundation and Martin County.
Look who is right here in our hood! Bring it on home! Let James help you cause we sure do got dem blues! A love affair with the Pacific Legal Foundation and the Economic Council of Martin County. Wow! Who would have thunk? The Pacific Legal Foundation. Pacific Legal Foundation 1002 Se Monterey Commons Blvd,…
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Who is the Pacific Legal Foundation and why are our Panthers, Manatees and Bears their Business?
Remember when Michael Grunwald was here and he said “Big Sugar has a right to be in business” and everyone groaned. Well, that’s true. They do. What I don’t think they have the right to get subsidies to stay alive when the rest of the businesses have to put themselves out there and if they…
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Panthers, Manatees and Bears Oh my!
I’ve been thinking about the hunts that have opened up on our Florida Bear, and all the craziness that going on with hunting in our state parks and people wanting to take the Florida Panther off the endangered species list. http://news.yahoo.com/florida-discusses-reduced-protection-endangered-panther-221628769.html;_ylt=A0LEVijTW55V3BcAPC0nnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTEzMjRzaXV2BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDRkZHRTAxXzEEc2VjA3Nj “ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – Florida’s wildlife agency may cut back on its efforts to…
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Big Sugar Summit: Sheila Krumholz, Executive Director, Center for Responsive Politics
Big Sugar Summit: Sheila Krumholz, Executive Director, Center for Responsive Politics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Responsive_Politics “The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) is a non-profit, nonpartisan research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks the effects of money and lobbying on elections and public policy. It maintains a public online database of its information. Its website, OpenSecrets.org, allows users to…
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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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