Florida Fleet Farming

In Florida, homeowners have a propensity for landscaping. They take great pride in the green carpet of grass in front of their homes. But one Florida man is working on a project that's turning his neighbors' lawns into working farms. Chris Castro has an obsession — turning the perfectly manicured lawns in his Orlando neighborhood into mini-farms. here

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Orlando Selling Green Cards For $500,000

In soccer, a player who gets a red card is kicked out of the match. But foreign investors could get green cards at Orlando City's new soccer stadium if they pay $500,000 each to help build it. here

Bay County Commissioners Fighting The Florida Frackers

The County Commission wants to make concrete their declaration that fracking will never occur in Bay County. here

Shit In Biscayne Bay

Climate Change pumps that flush floodwater from Miami Beach into Biscayne Bay during seasonal king tides are dumping something else into the bay: human waste. here

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article77978817.html#storylink=cpy

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Jim Norman: Obama Can Go To Hell

At the Hillsborough county Republican party’s monthly meeting at MOSI he criticized the guidelines issued by the Department of Education last Friday requiring schools to allow transgender students to use the restroom and locker rooms that correspond to their chosen gender. “You’re going to have to take me to jail, because I would stand up against that, I think it’s absolutely wrong” Norman said, boasting about how he stood up and supporting removing gays and lesbian from the county’s Human Rights Ordinance back in the early 1990’s. “If my daughter, my friend, went into a restroom and someone with a beard tried to follow in, they’d have to run,” Norman said, adding angrily, “So Obama can go to hell.” here

Mr. Norman is a funny guy. Oh and he got crushed by Tim Schock in a straw poll.

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Florida GOP Anitere Flores: Bought And Paid For By Big Oil

Florida Strong, has issued a statement calling Flores "bought and paid for" by "big oil" because she hadn't taken a stand against Big Cypress drilling. She  also voted for HB 1219, which would have allowed drilling in Florida's nearshore coastal waters. Big Oil companies including Exxon, Spectra and others have poured cash into Flores’s campaigns over the years. here