FEDC Inside Track to Legislative Affairs: 2008 End-of-Session Summary

May 30, 2008

  Above: Economic Expansion & Infratructure Council Chairman Representative Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, gestures as he guides his committee in Tallahassee.   Florida Economic Development Council End of Session Report2008 Florida Regular Legislative Session   2008 FEDC Legislative Accomplishments:  Priorities …

Hurricane disaster teams need volunteers

May 30, 2008

The Gainesville Sun–May 30, 2008 By HEATHER B. RIGGSSpecial to The Sun Hurricane season begins Sunday, and there’s no better time for residents to volunteer for disaster teams in the area, said Mark Brennan, a rural sociologist with the University …

EDITORIAL: Flirting with disaster

May 30, 2008

The Gainsville Sun–May 30, 2008 A coalition of environmental groups this week called on state leaders to start taking climate change seriously and do more to protect Florida’s coasts. Among other things, argues the Florida Coastal and Ocean Coalition, Florida …

BARNEY BISHOP: At risk from hidden hurricane tax

May 30, 2008

Orlando Sentinel–May 30, 2008 Barney Bishop Sunday marks the first day of hurricane season, and experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predict that this hurricane season will be above normal, with 12 to 16 named storms. Even more …