4/27/2003
Everglades sell-out (cont.)
The Herald editorial page finally gets around to criticizing Big Sugar's bill to weaken the Everglades' cleanup. It comes a couple a of weeks after everyone other paper in the state made the same complaint (except the Times-Union which likes the bill just fine) but late is better than never. Unlike most of the editorials, which focus strictly on Tallahassee, this one also singles out Bush appointees on the South Florida Water Management District Board.
They are willing to risk making state taxpayers and the agriculture industry foot the entire $8.4 billion cost of the 30-year cleanup plan -- based on the advice of Big Sugar.
The Orlando Sentinel also gets around to to decrying "An Everglades fiasco." (Perishible link)
The bill -- authored halfway through the legislative session by the very sugar industry that destroyed the Everglades' delicate ecosystem -- is a top-shelf example of how loaded special interests rule Tallahassee.
They are willing to risk making state taxpayers and the agriculture industry foot the entire $8.4 billion cost of the 30-year cleanup plan -- based on the advice of Big Sugar.
The Orlando Sentinel also gets around to to decrying "An Everglades fiasco." (Perishible link)
The bill -- authored halfway through the legislative session by the very sugar industry that destroyed the Everglades' delicate ecosystem -- is a top-shelf example of how loaded special interests rule Tallahassee.
