Handing federal wetlands permitting to FL DEP is an idea that’s all wet
Florida is best known for its gorgeous beaches, but we also have a lot of wetlands. Bogs, swamps, marshes, you name it, we’ve got...
Donald Trump’s and Ron DeSantis’ alternative reality: If you call yourself a ‘great environmentalist’...
You will be thrilled, if perhaps surprised, to hear that Donald Trump is a “great environmentalist.”He said so himself — in Jupiter (the town...
Vote as if your life depends on it, because this time it does
Whom you vote for matters. Your life and the life of your family depend on you voting for candidates who listen to experts and...
Frank DeFilippo: Are Democrats Mean Enough?
In the great game of politics, Democrats, as a party, lack a mean streak. Too often they seem fixated on agendas, searching for the...
Nature is finding ways to adapt to how we’ve changed the climate. What are...
The speakers at last week's Republican National Convention used a lot of words — nearly 78,000 of them, according to a report in Forbes....
Scare enough people, especially people of color, and Trump might be able to defeat...
Twenty years ago Black voters in Tallahassee complained when law enforcement officials set up road blocks between minority neighborhoods and the precincts where they...
Donald Trump’s RNC was an orgy of nepotism and white panic
A Whiter Shade of Pale: On Day One of the Republican National Convention, Charlie Kirk called Donald Trump “the bodyguard of Western Civilization.”Kirk, a...
Why Florida’s DEP stands for Delayed Environmental Protection
Do you ever break the law? I do, all the time. I constantly drive faster than the speed limit. Partly it’s because I am...
Kamala Harris confounds the white enforcers of America’s racial lines
That Sen. Caramel Harris or however you mispronounce her name? She’s not black.Yeah, she went to Howard University, a historically black institution, alma mater...
Musings on Florida and the politics of pythons
A year ago, I tagged along with a couple of professional python hunters searching the Everglades for the big snakes. We spent six hours...