Wes WolfeNovember 29, 2022
5min0
Statistics on hand show public participation through online means has dwindled to nearly nothing.
Tag: public commentReps. Steve Womack and Jason Crow. Image via AP.
Wes WolfeNovember 29, 2022
Danny McAuliffeJune 19, 2018
8min478
Environmental and activist groups are criticizing the state for drafting in secrecy the details of a new permitting process to build in Florida’s wetlands. In a letter Monday addressed to Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Noah Valenstein, environmental groups Audubon Florida and 1000 Friends of Florida alongside the League of Women Voters called for a more […]
Sally SwartzJune 15, 20155min215
Don’t try to control or shut off public comments at Martin County Commission meetings, residents told commissioners at a workshop last week. Commissioners had planned the workshop — a discussion with no official action — away from TV cameras to talk about new “rules of procedure,” which commissioners adopt each year at a November organizational […]