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Peter SchorschDecember 16, 2016

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica. DONALD TRUMP BRINGS THANK YOU TOUR TO SUNSHINE STATE If President-elect Donald Trump wanted to bring his thank you tour to only to areas of dense supporters, his Friday evening visit to Orlando might […]

Peter SchorschJuly 22, 2016

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, and Jim Rosica. DONALD TRUMP DELIVERS A STEMWINDER Donald Trump has accepted the Republican nomination for president, promising anxious Americans that they will be safer and richer if he is elected in November. Trump painted […]

Associated PressJuly 18, 2016

The enormous algae outbreak that has coated swaths of Florida’s St. Lucie River with guacamole-like sludge is a man-made affliction, arising from political and economic decisions made over the past 140 years. Chasing dollars, Florida land developers and their government allies broke up nature’s flow that used rivers, Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades to move […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterJune 9, 2016

U.S. Sugar officials are pushing back after a guest editorial in a Southwest Florida newspaper said sugar producers are part of the reason why efforts to build reservoirs south of Lake Okeechobee have been postponed. “At no point has anyone representing U.S. Sugar ever said anything about opposing scientifically and technically proven storage projects throughout […]

Peter SchorschApril 29, 2016

Last Friday, a reporter with FloridaPolitics.com sat in on a meeting of the Economic Development Incentives Committee in City Hall. Of interest: a discussion of economically distressed areas. Economically distressed areas were rated on four factors. Income below the poverty line was one, with 20 percent being the demarcation point. 64 of 174 Duval County […]

Jim RosicaApril 26, 2016

More than 5,000 acres in St. Johns County have been set aside for conservation. Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet on Tuesday approved spending nearly $6 million toward the wooded land. State officials want to add the tract to the St. Johns River Blueway Florida Forever project. The move is supported by conservationists. The North Florida Land Trust’s Jim […]

Diane RobertsApril 19, 2016

Ever wonder what will be left of natural Florida when Rick Scott slithers out of the Governor’s Mansion for the last time? Look at the Indian River Lagoon. Once a 150 mile-long bay of clear water filled with manatees, sea grasses and oysters, it has become a brown, stinking monoculture where only algae thrive. The […]

Diane RobertsApril 18, 2016

Ever wonder what will be left of natural Florida when Rick Scott slithers out of the Governor’s Mansion for the last time? Look at the Indian River Lagoon. Once a 150 mile-long bay of clear water filled with manatees, sea grasses and oysters, it has become a brown, stinking monoculture where only algae thrive. The […]

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 […]

Phil AmmannJanuary 12, 2016

Brute force is one way things get done in politics. If a party has an overwhelming majority in the legislative and executive branches, it can simply ram everything through. But the Founding Fathers deliberately made it difficult. Therefore, both left and right seek compromise, where possible. In the last session of the Florida Legislature, there […]

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics – 12.16.16

Sunburn for 7.22.16 – Donald Trump delivers an ol’ fashioned stemwinder

Curing Florida’s algae crisis will take time, money, science

U.S. Sugar pushes back over claims cane industry is to blame for postponed water projects

Jacksonville Bold for 4.28.16 – A Tale of Two Cities

Rick Scott and Cabinet OK land buy in St. Johns County

Diane Roberts: Rick Scott’s business buddies want to kill bears, panthers, environment

Diane Roberts: Rick Scott’s business buddies want to kill bears, panthers, environment

Senate committee passes bill restructuring public land acquisition and management

Lloyd Brown: Special interests balking at a fair compromise on water bill