The Hillsborough County Planning Commission is seeking entries for its 27th Annual Community Design Awards Program, which recognizes excellence in planning, landscape architecture, environmental sensitivity and architectural design in building and development projects throughout the county. ...more

February 4, 2009

PICAYUNE STRAND - It all comes back to the water. Water is at the heart of the plan to save and restore the Everglades. How it flows, where it goes and what it contains. From north of Lake Okeechobee to the Picayune Strand State Forest in southwest Collier County, the Everglades restoration plan hinges on a complex system of engineering and environmental projects meant to reverse damage to the fragile ecosystem that defines Florida. For the past seven years, however, the biggest question about the Everglades hasn't been water. It has been money. ...more

November 25, 2007

It all comes back to the water. Water is at the heart of the plan to save and restore the Everglades. How it flows, where it goes and what it contains. ...more

November 25, 2007

With the help of a $45,000 Florida Learn & Serve Grant, Gulf High School reading coach Victoria Mudry has spread the word about hurricane preparedness among her students and Pasco County. ...more

November 11, 2007

The World Bank and IFC have been taken to task because of the immense corruption pervading almost every avenue of so-called aid to impoverished nations, notable in Africa. Numerous examples of corporate corruption have illustrated this egregious practice which has further victimized the impoverished. The American division of the World Bank employs that all American principle of capitalism in "encouraging" free enterprise world wide. Unfortunately, the bank officials ensure income and profit for themselves first, thus, leaving the recipients of the aid worse off than they were before this "aid." In fact, the promising entrepreneurs in these proffered programs toward free enterprise have been the very victims of exploitation. The World Bank president was asked why the bank was providing loans to China, India and Brazil, classified as middle-income nations, when they hold 100s of billions of dollars of U.S. debt, why they couldn't utilize these enormous sums to fund their own development of environmental projects, etc. instead of aiding impoverished nations. He replied that this is good business, China and India will spread the wealth. ...more

October 28, 2007