Bradenton Sen. Mike Bennett has come up with a slippery way to kill Everglades restoration. He's demanding the state's plan to purchase 180,000 acres in the Everglades from U.S. Sugar be put to a vote by affected taxpayers. ...more

February 24, 2009

Your editorial last week supporting the Florida's congressional delegation's concerns with Governor Crist regarding the land purchase with U.S. Sugar was inappropriate and possibly harmful to the effort to restore the Everglades. ...more

August 6, 2008

The state's plan to buy 187,000 acres from U.S. Sugar Corp. worries the residents of Clewiston, whose town near Lake Okeechobee grew up with the sugar industry and is threatened by the loss of its main industry. ...more

July 20, 2008

By any measure, Florida Gov. Charlie Christ's announcement to buy out U.S. Sugar to protect the Everglades is incredible. When has a governor anywhere offered a billion-dollar buyout for environmental purposes? While we praise his courage, and admire any Florida politician who sees and remedies faulty policy that's gone on for decades, we worry about the human toll this will take. ...more

June 25, 2008

"The Logic of Life," by Tim Harford (Random House, $25) ...more

February 24, 2008