By Brian Mudd
Top Three Takeaways – June 3rd, 2021
It’s time to finish what we’ve started. For years many of us have been fighting for meaningful change to improve our waterways, combat toxic algae and restore the Everglades. With record toxic algae in Lake Okeechobee, contaminated algal drinking water within the Palm Beaches and record manatee deaths – the effort looks like a failure. Instead, perhaps it’s a case of it being darkest before the dawn. None of Florida’s water problems happened overnight and the solutions to them – now several years in the making, have been anything but easy to achieve. The Everglades Restoration Project has advanced to the point where most water discharged east and west from Lake Okeechobee can now been sent south into the Everglades. According to Congressman Brian Mast, the Army Corps of Engineers will choose from one of five plans in July which will determine the future of discharges and specifically how much water will hea
Florida News That Impacts You – June 2nd, 2021
Bottom Line: Your daily recap of the some of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you in South Florida.
Florida’s trend for new COVID-19 cases is nearly the lowest in a year. After only 1,253 new cases were reported by the Florida Department of Health on Tuesday, Florida’s weekly trend for cases stands at 1,849 per day. That’s the lowest since June 15th.
Over 10.3 million Floridians, including about 56% of adults, have now been vaccinated with at least a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. 8.3 million have now completed a vaccine series.