Jason DelgadoMay 14, 2020
4min463
Fire crews from across Florida are traveling to help.
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Jason DelgadoMay 14, 2020
Jacob OglesMay 2, 2019
4min386
Most travelers on road come from outside Collier County.
Jacob OglesApril 2, 2019
3min278
Lone highway fire station will be funded with toll revenues through FDOT.
Jacob OglesFebruary 19, 20194min216
Facility exists solely to respond to wrecks on toll road.
Jacob OglesNovember 26, 20184min336
On the great swath of road known as Alligator Alley, a single fire station at mile marker 63 handles wrecks from Collier to Broward County. But since the Department of Transportation opened the facility in 2014, there has been debate over who pays to keep the lights on. A new bill (SB 72) filed by state […]
Guest AuthorJune 27, 2017
5min1013
It’s always heartbreaking when I hear that yet another Florida black bear or Florida panther has gotten killed on a Florida road. So far this year, vehicle collisions killed an average of two endangered Florida panthers a month. And for bears, the toll is worse: About 20 black bears die every month on roadways as […]
A.G. GancarskiJune 30, 2016
16min624
Bill McClure, a Republican running in Florida’s 4th Congressional District, has messaged heavily against Jacksonville’s pension tax referendum this week. He’s in an interesting position: despite being a St. Johns County commissioner, his declared address for his filing in CD 4 is in the Hidden Hills neighborhood in Arlington, 35 miles and a county line away […]
Diane RobertsMarch 7, 2016
6min259
OCCUPIED TALLAHASSEE — Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith is getting evicted from Statuary Hall. The Sons of Confederate Veterans are not happy. Sen. Don Gaetz, a native of that little-known Old South state of North Dakota, is not happy: “There is nothing in the bill analysis, nothing in the testimony, that tells us any reason why […]
Diane RobertsMarch 6, 20166min248
OCCUPIED TALLAHASSEE – Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith is getting evicted from Statuary Hall. The Sons of Confederate Veterans are not happy. Sen. Don Gaetz, a native of that little-known Old South state of North Dakota, is not happy: “There is nothing in the bill analysis, nothing in the testimony, that tells us any reason why […]
Associated PressNovember 8, 2015
3min950
State officials are spending more than $5 million on a fencing project designed to keep panthers and other large animals off Alligator Alley. The Florida Department of Transportation will start construction later this year on a project that includes 18 miles of 10-foot fencing and work on three animal underpasses east of the Naples-area toll […]