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Mitch PerrySeptember 29, 2016

Gwen Graham is again blasting Gov. Rick Scott about the massive sinkhole created at the Mosaic phosphate plant in Polk County last month. The Tallahassee Democratic representative specifically is challenging the claim made by Scott earlier this week that he wasn’t aware of the 215 million gallons of contaminated water going into the Florida aquifer until weeks after the incident. […]

Tamara LushSeptember 29, 2016

Neighbors of a huge sinkhole sending cascades of contaminated water and fertilizer plant waste into Florida’s main drinking-water aquifer are fearful and fuming that it took weeks for them to be notified about the disaster. Many are still waiting anxiously for results from tests for radiation and toxic chemicals in their well water. Meanwhile, the […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 21, 2016

Tallahassee U.S. Representative and potential gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham is blasting the Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection, claiming it failed local citizens by failing to alert them of the massive leak of contaminated water that occurred through a sinkhole at Mosaic’s New Wales Facility in Polk County last month. The company did immediately inform the Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection and other agencies, […]

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 […]

Associated PressJuly 28, 2016

The Latest on the Democratic National Convention and 2016 presidential campaign. (all times EDT): 7:10 p.m. A Hillary Clinton campaign adviser says he’s not worried about winning over Bernie Sanders’ supporters. “Most of them are going to come around.” That’s what John Podesta thinks. Podesta says he knows there are some in the Sanders camp […]

Joe HendersonJuly 28, 2016

Florida Democrats have long since undertaken the groundwork to deliver the Sunshine State to Hillary Clinton in November. In fact, you could say that began in 2008 and continued four years later when Barack Obama carried Florida in both of his presidential campaigns. The local operatives, so critical in big elections, who turned out the […]

Mitch PerryJuly 28, 2016

Tallahassee-based Democratic Congresswoman Gwen Graham spent a few minutes unfavorably comparing Florida Gov. Rick Scott to Donald Trump while addressing state Democrats in Philadelphia Thursday morning. “Make no mistake, Rick Scott and Donald Trump are cut from the same wing of the Republican Party,” she said. “Not the conservative wing, but the con man wing, and if […]

Keith MorelliJune 28, 2016

The agency that oversees water resources in a 16-county region stretching between Levy and Charlotte counties along the Gulf Coast has a new boss. The Southwest Florida Water Management District Governing Board Tuesday selected Brian Armstrong as executive director at the regularly scheduled meeting in Brooksville, the headquarters of the district. Armstrong takes the place of […]

Diane RobertsMay 11, 2016

You’d think that a state where they launch rockets into space, a state which houses the world’s most powerful superconducting magnets, a state with several perfectly good universities, would embrace science. Or at least not be so thoroughly hostile to it. But this is Rick Scott’s Florida, where there’s still legislative resistance to teaching evolution […]

Phil AmmannFebruary 9, 2016

A bill revamping the state’s process of public land acquisition and management passed its first Senate committee Tuesday. LobbyTools reports that SB 1290, filed by Trilby Republican Sen. Wilton Simpson is nearly identical to House equivalent, HB 1075, filed by Lehigh Acres Republican Rep. Matt Caldwell. Orlando Democratic Sen. Darren Soto submitted an amendment to strip language that […]

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Gwen Graham again slams Rick Scott on Mosaic spill

Outcry grows over delay in warning about Mosaic sinkhole, contamination

Gwen Graham wants to know why the DEP didn’t tell the public about Mosaic’s toxic sinkhole

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

Hillary Clinton aide says Bernie Sanders backers to come around

Joe Henderson: DNC Day 3 — organization is everything

Gwen Graham says Rick Scott, Donald Trump from ‘con man’ wing of GOP

Personnel note: SWFTMD announces new executive director

Diane Roberts: Bad science is not good for state’s waterways

Senate committee passes bill restructuring public land acquisition and management