Florida PhoenixApril 15, 2022
22min0
Showdown next week over whether ‘preserve’ means what it says.
Tag: Florida Communities TrustImage via Palatka Main Street.
Florida PhoenixApril 15, 2022
Renzo DowneyNovember 22, 2021
5min901
The Governor gets one appointee to the newly established Commission.
Renzo DowneyAugust 20, 20214min1563
He left the administration in June, but is returning to serve on a board under his former department.
Staff ReportsMarch 29, 2017
2min444
On Tuesday, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Environment and Natural Resources issued the first version of its 2017-18 budget, which comes in at $3.8 billion. The projected Senate budget includes few hundred million dollars more than the preliminary House plan. Fleming Island Republican Rob Bradley, who chairs the committee, offered a thumbnail version at a […]
Staff ReportsNovember 10, 2016
1min262
Lynda Bell, an anti-abortion former Miami-Dade county commissioner who fell short in a Florida House race this year, will serve instead on the Florida Communities Trust. Gov. Rick Scott announced the appointment Thursday. Bell finished third in a crowded race for the GOP nomination in House District 118. Bell, president of Florida Right to Life, […]
Sally SwartzNovember 2, 2015
6min219
You could call Jeff Wittman an eternal optimist. The Hobe Sound resident never has stopped believing that a 46-acre chunk of Florida scrub wilderness between U.S. 1 and Alternate A1A, south of Bridge Road, should belong to the people forever. For almost a decade, the land has been the prize in a tug of war […]