Treating Symptoms vs a Cure, Biosolids Veto, and more!
July 11, 2026 Weekly Newsletter We Keep Treating Symptoms There is a photograph that Florida politicians love. A barge in the lagoon, a plume of muck rising through the pipe, a ribbon cutting, a check the size of a door. It looks like the problem being solved. Usually it's the problem being moved. We have spent a decade and hundreds of millions of dollars on machines that make the Indian River Lagoon briefly cleaner without making it any less sick. We dredge the black muck of
Property Taxes on Water, AI Data Centers, and More
June 27, 2026 Weekly Newsletter The Property Tax Fight's Hidden Casualty: Your Water There's a piece of the property tax amendment debate that almost nobody is talking about, and Eric Draper raised it online recently with a sharp point: Florida's water management districts are about to take a major hit, and unlike cities and counties, they have almost nowhere else to turn for the money. Draper is worth listening to on this. Over a 30-year conservation career, he became one of