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Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterJuly 22, 2016

It’s time to focus on the water. That was the message three Republicans running in Florida’s 19th Congressional District sent to Southwest Florida voters during a forum hosted by the Lee Republican Women’s Club and the Republican Women of Cape Coral Federated. The forum was held hours after Cape Coral reopened its beach, which had been […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMarch 14, 2016

U.S. Sugar is hitting back over claims that sugarcane farmers are to blame for the harmful Lake Okeechobee discharges. The Army Corps of Engineers has been releasing water from Lake Okeechobee into the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie rivers for about a month. The releases came after a wetter-than-normal January. South Florida officials have said the […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterFebruary 11, 2016

Gov. Rick Scott is asking the Army Corps of Engineers to take swift action to stop Lake Okeechobee releases into the Calooshatchee and St. Lucie estuaries west and east of the lake respectively. In a letter to the Army Corps of Engineers on Thursday, Scott asked that the agency “take immediate action to relieve the […]

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Francis Rooney, Chauncey Goss, Dan Bongino talk water quality during CD 19 forum

U.S. Sugar says cane farmers not to blame for dirty water flowing from Lake O

Rick Scott calls for “immediate action” to ease effects of Lake Okeechobee releases