Category: florida
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Traveling Florida Back Roads: Fort Basinger and the Lockett estate
“Highlands County had the site briefly, but their plan to turn the historic location into a golf course prompted SFWMD to take it back. For now, the site is closed to the public. “
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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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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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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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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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The Florida Legislature Gags Health Care Workers. How not to save a life.
This post is about Glocks vs Docs which thankfully has changed.
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Sugar U: Fanjuls some history and a little trouble in Paradise
Fanjul family history with addemdum on Marco Rubios relationship to them. Marco Rubio hates welfare but apparently loves corporate welfare.
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BIG SUGAR ENTERTAINMENT or not: Fanjul’s try to control movies, TV, what’s next?
Here are a few documentaries about the sugar industry.
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Throwback Thurs: Cane the TV Show.
Starring Jimmy Smits, this epic drama chronicles the external rivalries and internal power struggles of a large Cuban-American family running an immensely successful rum and sugar business in South Florida.
