Today’s entry:
Long time listener. I wanted to contact you to ask for an opportunity for you to review and report to your listener base the pros and cons of South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) becoming an Investor Owned Utility (IOU). As a conservationist, I am concerned with the sewage effluent/raw water suggestions being injected below our precious Floridian Aquifer. And as practical realist, I realize that the opportunity to have private companies manage projects means timelines and budgets will get met. I value hearing your analysis and hope you will consider offering your insight.
Bottom Line: Florida’s water wars are anything but new, but they continue to escalate. You have the multiple decade Florida-Georgia battle over the Apalachicola, growing concerns over the bottling of water in Florida’s springs and of course the mack daddy of them all. The one that starts at Lake O’ and ends where the Everglades do. Lake O’s toxic alga
Today’s entry:
Long time listener. I wanted to contact you to ask for an opportunity for you to review and report to your listener base the pros and cons of South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) becoming an Investor Owned Utility (IOU). As a conservationist, I am concerned with the sewage effluent/raw water suggestions being injected below our precious Floridian Aquifer. And as practical realist, I realize that the opportunity to have private companies manage projects means timelines and budgets will get met. I value hearing your analysis and hope you will consider offering your insight.
Bottom Line: Florida’s water wars are anything but new, but they continue to escalate. You have the multiple decade Florida-Georgia battle over the Apalachicola, growing concerns over the bottling of water in Florida’s springs and of course the mack daddy of them all. The one that starts at Lake O’ and ends where the Everglades do. Lake O’s toxic alga
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By Brian Mudd
Top Three Takeaways – March 3rd, 2021
The news just keeps getting better. For Florida that is. Fresh off of Florida’s lowest day for reported COVID-19 cases since last June, and our best trend in over three months, came governor DeSantis’s state of the state speech opening the 2021 legislative session. The governor touched on many themes we’ve recently discussed on the show including Florida having fewer cases of COVID per capita, fewer deaths per capita, fewer restrictions than most states leading to a lower unemployment rate, better than average economy and yes – even our education system suddenly becoming a top performer. All great news but all news we already knew. But that’s where DeSantis added some breaking news and it’s huge heading into this year’s session. He said the state’s unemployment rate, already well lower than the national average – has been overstated and will be revised down. Related, he said revenue produced to the state of F
By Brian Mudd
Top Three Takeaways – January 29th, 2021
58%. A year ago, that was Governor DeSantis’s approval rating as he rolled out his budget which called for 2020 to be “The Year of Teacher”. Broadly popular at the time, the governor boldly laid out his plan for the largest increase in teacher salaries in Florida’s history with a pay structure which would take Florida’s teachers from being below average in compensation to among the top in the country. This as he outlined the continuation of record spending for environmental projects and pushed reform for the contamination of Florida’s waterways. In many respects it feels like much longer than a year ago because as DeSantis laid out his plans for the year, he nor we, knew what was about to hit us. In the end, the pandemic took its toll on numerous agenda items. He vetoed over a billion dollars in projects approved by the state legislature. Quoting DeSantis at the time of the budget vetoes “we are dealing with