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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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Jail is the new state mental hospital. Where are the diversion programs?
@joenegronfl @MaryLynnMagar Jail is the new state mental hospital. and Florida is one of the worst places. If its “our money” we’d like to keep it and not waste it on housing people. We need a real solution. Stop wasting our money on a solution that doesn’t work and hurts people. Here is a TC…
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Trying to Understand the Structure of the SFWMD within Government, St Lucie River/Indian River Lagoon
Most important information regarding SFWMD. They couldn’t have helped to buy the land if they wanted because that power was taken away. Amazing that they forget to tell us. Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch Florida Statutes books on shelf. Public photo. If there is one thing I have learned in my seven-year stint in local government, it is…
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June is educate your legislators in mental illness month. I said so!
@joenegronfl who said http://fcir.org/2012/07/26/florida-slips-even-lower-in-mental-health-funding/ “More specifically, state Sen. Joe Negron, R-Palm City, advocated cuts to so-called soft services, which include mental health and drug-addiction programs, because many of these services address what Negon views as “a lack of willpower, a lack of discipline, a lack of character.” Negron was the chair of appropriations for health and human services…
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Where are the Pet-Friendly Shelters?
@MartinCountygov @TCPalm @TCPalmAndreassi To Our Commissioners in Martin and St Lucie County. This past Saturday I attended our annual disaster conference. Our area includes Martin County, Port St Lucie County, Okeechobee County and Indian River County. The MRC (Medical Reserve Corp) are volunteers who assist in disasters. The only county that seemed to have it…
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Do our Legislators Need to be Credentialed?
Our Legislators Need to be Credentialed. As a nurse I have to be credentialed into order to work. I had to go to school, take my boards, pay for my license. I have to complete continuing education. That’ s just to keep my license. Then in order to be a nurse and have a job…