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Less Protection and More Pollution

Manatee County residents need to prepare for less protection from storm surges, increased insurance rates, insurance companies canceling additional homeowner policies, and more water pollution. …

County Commission Shows Public Who They Work For

In what amounted to a reprehensible mockery of the democratic process itself, Manatee County Commissioners voted 6-1 to move forward in gutting the county’s own wetland protection policy during …

Are We Certain That It's Safe?

In a 3-2 vote last week, the Manatee School Board approved an amendment to Team Success’ charter that will allow for the construction of a second campus adjacent to the SRQ airport, …

Say NO to Reducing the County's Wetland Protections!

Though I was pleasantly surprised by the Planning Commission’s vote against the transmittal of proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendment PA-23-06/Ordinance 23-66 to delete the county’s …

Wetland Policy Banana Republic Style

As you peel away the layers of the developer-driven proposal to gut Manatee County’s wetland protection policies, the smell of this already rancid onion just keeps getting worse. Considering …

Look Who's Driving the Clown Car Now

This week, our favorite soap opera/horror story offered up some twists and turns as another character was written off the show and Machiavellian plots among board members continued to unfold. …

A Futile Attempt to Disguise Hazardous Waste

Phosphate industry representatives have increased their efforts to convince people that phosphogypsum may soon become an important asset in the form of mining Rare Earth Elements from phosphogypsum …

Has the Endgame Begun?

Over the next several months, the Manatee County Commission and its administration will set about an overhaul of the county’s comprehensive land use plan and its policies regarding wetland …

About Those Impact Fees

At Tuesday's Manatee County Commission meeting, Commissioner George Kruse asked why the approved timeline for addressing impact fees had seemed to be abandoned. He didn't get much of an answer. …

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