Category: polluton
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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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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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SFWMD: Dirty toilets affront to citizens.
SFWMD: Dirty toilets affront to citizens. Big giants spiders a bonus! http://www.courierpress.com/business/dirty-toilets-an-indicator-of-larger-issues “Dirty toilets,” I repeat. “They signal customers and employees that management does not care about them as people. Most people take toilets seriously. A dirty toilet is an affront to people who care about themselves, their families, and their fellow citizens. Management can…
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ACOE and the Herbert Hoover Dike: We should be up in arms together!
To the people of Clewiston, Florida ACOE and the Herbert Hoover Dike: We should be up in arms together! Let’s take a moment to remember when the discharges came back in 2013 and we all went to Phipp’s Park. 7000 of us together in true Solidarity. The day most of us met each other. That…
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Our STA 5/6 and their good neighbor US Sugar Corp
@SFWMD @joenegronfl Our STA 5/6 and their good neighbor US Sugar Corp This past weekend my friend Jules and I went to visit STA 5/6. I wanted to see the STA’s. The Board of Governors were all over these places and how fabulous they were. I needed to see for myself. They could not have…
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Sugar U: The US Sugar Corp
@sugarcard2 In a few week we’ll be going to the Sugar Summit that is being put together by our great friends, the Florida SIerra Club. I thought it was a good time to bone up on who’z who and what’s what. Please feel free to chime in. Even at sugarcard2 – we want to hear…
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The Uninvited. Barking up the wrong tree.
So you know when you call someone on the phone and you talk and talk and then they interrupt and say ” You got the wrong number.” Then your embarrassed and apologize and try to figure out what number should have been called. Sometime’s you just dialed wrong and sometimes you have the wrong number.…
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Get to Know Know Your SFWMD Board of Govenors: Daniel O’Keefe and Festivus
@SFWMD http://www.sfwmd.gov/portal/page/portal/xweb%20about%20us/governing%20board “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 the Governor…
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