Emails & Opinions

Peter SchorschSeptember 23, 2016

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica. WHO IS EXCITED TO TALK ABOUT WATER???!!! Two years after Amendment 1 was overwhelmingly adopted by Florida voters, questions about the best way to spend billions of earmarked dollars. Experts from across […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 23, 2016

Welcome to the first full day of fall, Florida style. Now maybe it will actually start to feel like a different season in say, about a month from now? Speaking of the weather, good luck to the student-athletes at USF and Florida State University who will be playing in the excessively hot and humid conditions […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 23, 2016

While much has changed in Florida over the years, for environmentalists, one thing has remained somewhat constant — polluted discharges from Lake Okeechobee. And when they point fingers at what is causing the recent toxic blue-green algae blooms plaguing the Treasure Coast, agriculture has reliably been held up as one of the “usual suspects.” For […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 22, 2016

Earlier this week, I addressed the Polk County Board of County Commissioners on the recent sinkhole and water loss incident at our New Wales production facility, and believe the updates and sentiments that I shared are pertinent to the entire west-central Florida community. The most important thing for the community to know is that on […]

Joe HendersonSeptember 22, 2016

St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman is angry — MAD, I tell you! — that Gov. Rick Scott is playing politics just because the city’s streets and waterways were covered in sewage following Hurricane Hermine. Um, Mr. Mayor? I suspect you already know this, but you have a lot bigger problems than the Republican governor of […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 22, 2016

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica. WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE… … But how to keep it clean? Florida’s water woes will be at the center of Associated Industries of Florida’s two-day Florida Water Forum, which kicks off today. The annual […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2016

In Charlotte last night, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory called for a state of emergency a night after violence escalated as residents continued to protest the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer a day prior. While in Tulsa, the Dept. of Justice is investigating officer Betty Shelby’s use of force in the shooting death of 40-year-old unarmed black […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 22, 2016

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Like many other Americans, I’m really frustrated with the upcoming choice of either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton for president. Why? From the start, they were surely not the best candidates for the job. Also, this election has been extremely contemptuous in its negative tone and the hostile demeanor of both candidates. Each day brings […]

Joe HendersonSeptember 21, 2016

One Saturday afternoon several months ago, I needed to drive from Brandon to St. Petersburg. As always, I took Interstate 4 to I-275 in downtown Tampa and headed toward the lovely ‘Burg. Most days, that trek would take me about 40-45 minutes, assuming the weather was good, and there wasn’t a wreck at Malfunction Junction […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 21, 2016

As for the much-heralded sinkhole at the Mosaic Company’s New Wales Facility in Polk County, readers of the Tampa Bay Times may be in for a shock. Truth be told, both the state of Florida and Mosaic have been much more proactive than they are led to believe. And Mosaic and the Florida Department of […]

Emails & Opinions

Sunburn for 9.23.16 – Are you ready for some more water?

Mitch Perry Report for 9.23.16 – Fall follies

Perhaps faulty septic tanks cause algae blooms after all

Mosaic’s Walt Precourt: Our community, our responsibility

Joe Henderson: St. Pete’s stinky mess, sewage and politics

Sunburn for 9.22.16 — Water woes

Mitch Perry Report for 9.22.16 – The fire down below

Steven Kurlander: Dumb and Dumber — The choice is awful, but it’s anti-American not to vote

Joe Henderson: Cross-Bay ferry – an idea whose time has finally come

DEP takes aim at media’s coverage of Mosaic sinkhole story