County Commissioner Jim Adkins is proposing a short-term moratorium on impact fees to jumpstart the economy and put builders back to work. ...more

March 12, 2009

Adkins says it would create jobs. ...more

March 11, 2009

Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, conceding defeat in a months-long battle with the White House and Republicans set off by $4 a gallon gasoline prices this summer. ...more

September 24, 2008

While it has slowed down recently, Florida's growth has boomed in recent years. Unfortunately, this growth outpaced our ability or willingness to address its impacts. Schools, roads, water supplies are all strained. And nowhere is this crisis more apparent than in Florida's sewage treatment infrastructure. ...more

August 5, 2008

Mike Wyckoff is an unlikely proponent of something Florida politicians and environmentalists have been trying to prevent for decades: The exploration and production of oil and natural gas in the waters off Florida's Gulf Coast. ...more

June 14, 2008

As gas prices set another record by going above $4.02 a gallon on Monday, a Pennsylvania congressman planned to ask a House subcommittee this week to allow oil drilling off the Florida Gulf Coast. ...more

June 10, 2008