Just in time for Sunshine Week, Tampa Bay Times environmental reporter Craig Pittman reminds us how focused, how ruthless, how relentless Gov. Rick Scott’s flacks are in their taxpayer-financed efforts to keep information out of the hands of taxpayers. Florida Politics, by Florence Snyder March 14, 2017 Florida’s Ministries of Disinformation have been around since […]
Giant, radioactive sinkhole kept secret for weeks
October 1, 2016 – Orlando Sentinel by Scott Maxwell If you’ve ever watched bad science-fiction movies, you know that when you combine two terrifying things, you get one even more-terrifying thing. Like a sharktopus, sharknado or even an atomic twister. Such horrors sound too bizarre for reality — but maybe not for Florida. About 60 […]
After 3-week delay telling public about contaminated sinkhole, Gov. Rick Scott wants faster notice
September 26, 2016 – Tampa Bay Times by Craig Pittman For three weeks, Florida Department of Environmental Protection officials kept mum about a phosphate mine’s 300-foot-deep sinkhole that dumped 215 million gallons of contaminated water into the state’s aquifer. When they finally told the public earlier this month, officials said they went “above and beyond” […]
