By Tim Elfrink , published: June 04, 200 Rick Persson founded a group to save the canals. Iron wires dangle from a boat in a cool brown river deep in the Everglades. On this breezy April morning, a few hundred volts crackle through the metal strands into the water. Barron Moody sweeps a net through [...]
South Florida Everglades Bass Fishing, the L-67A Canal, Falls Victim to Environmentalists
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State Lawmakers Plan Sugar Land Hearing
December 10, 2008 By Leave a Comment
State lawmakers in Miami-Dade County are questioning the wisdom of the state’s planned $1.34 billion buyout of U.S. Sugar Corp. A press release from state Rep. Juan Zapata, R-Miami, chairman of the Miami-Dade legislative delegation, said the delegation of lawmakers has serious concerns about the expense and effectiveness of the buyout, which is designed to [...]
Fortune and Flame
May 22, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Why the Everglades is burning, and how we sucked it dry By Michael Grunwald 21 May 2008 It’s hard to believe, now that it’s been overrun by 7 million residents and 7 million strip malls, but southern Florida was once America’s last frontier. As late as 1880, the census recorded just 257 residents in a [...]
