A Sledgehammer for a Scalpel Problem, What Homebuyers Actually Want, and More
July 11, 2026 Weekly Newsletter A Sledgehammer for a Scalpel Problem By Gretchen Hanson Nobody enjoys opening a property tax bill. That much the sponsors of the property tax referendum on this November's ballot got right. What they got wrong is baiting Florida residents with a promise to practically eliminate property taxes, without disclosing the lost services or the increased fees and sales taxes required to keep necessary or popular services running. The Legislature did no
Treating Symptoms vs a Cure, Biosolids Veto, and more!
July 11, 2026 Weekly Newsletter We Keep Treating Symptoms There is a photograph that Florida politicians love. A barge in the lagoon, a plume of muck rising through the pipe, a ribbon cutting, a check the size of a door. It looks like the problem being solved. Usually it's the problem being moved. We have spent a decade and hundreds of millions of dollars on machines that make the Indian River Lagoon briefly cleaner without making it any less sick. We dredge the black muck of