Renzo DowneyOctober 10, 2020
3min832
Announcements made late Friday include three new names.
Tag: St. Johns River Water Management DistrictA nice warm evening in Tallahassee on a very busy street while taking this shot.
Renzo DowneyOctober 10, 2020
A.G. GancarskiAugust 24, 2019
3min534
Davis could run for Jacksonville Mayor.
Jacob OglesFebruary 24, 2019
6min829
After SFWMD, will Ron DeSantis remake more water districts?
Staff ReportsApril 1, 2017
6min220
On Friday, Gov. Rick Scott announced eight appointments and reappointments to a variety of Florida state boards and commissions. Early Learning Coalition of Hillsborough County, Inc. Scott began by reappointing Luke Buzard to the Early Learning Coalition Hillsborough County, Inc., which collaborates with agencies throughout the community to offer a range of early learning services. […]
A.G. GancarskiJanuary 3, 2017
5min609
On Tuesday, Sen. Rob Bradley introduced Senate Bill 234, which is intended to change the appropriations formula of 2014’s Water and Land Constitutional Amendment. Specifically, Bradley wants to ensure that the St. Johns River Water Management District gets its share. And as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Environment and Natural Resources, the Clay County […]
Diane RobertsMay 11, 2016
6min217
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 […]
Bruce RitchieMay 26, 2015
6min207
DEP Secretary Jon Steverson says he has never fired anyone for enforcing the law. Yet his fingerprints – or at least tacit backing – are all over the ouster of top staff at the St. Johns River Water Management District. The resignations of Executive Director Hans Tanzler and four top staff members at the district, […]
Bruce RitchieMay 25, 2015
6min205
DEP Secretary Jon Steverson says he has never fired anyone for enforcing the law. Yet his fingerprints – or at least tacit backing – are all over the ouster of top staff at the St. Johns River Water Management District. The resignations of Executive Director Hans Tanzler and four top staff members at the district, […]
Melissa RossMay 7, 2015
4min395
Florida environmental groups say they’ll keep fighting after an administrative law judge approved a plan for a cattle operation they say threatens the state’s iconic Silver Springs and the Ocklawaha River Aquatic Preserve. “The 9,500 head of cattle planned … will produce nearly 158 million pounds of manure and 11 million gallons of urine per year. […]
Bruce RitchieApril 28, 2015
7min224
The Florida House adjourned the 2015 Legislative Session on Tuesday, leaving bills dealing with water policy, hydraulic fracturing, septic tank waste and Duke Energy Florida in doubt. As the Senate was discussing fracking legislation, House Speaker Steve Crisafulli told House members there was no reason to keep House members in Tallahassee because of an impasse […]