Youth Assembly, SB 180, and more
August 29, 2026 Weekly Newsletter Florida's Textbooks Went Quiet. The Lagoon Didn't. In the summer of 2024, Florida's Department of Education asked science textbook publishers to soften how their books talk about climate change. WUSF and The Hechinger Report obtained the correspondence: in one marine science text, "climate change" became "changes in the environment." A line about climate-driven deaths worldwide was reduced to a vague statement about CO2 and human health. An e
The Ghosts of Developments Past, Elections, and more
The Ghosts of Developments Past You have driven past them without knowing what you were looking at. A concrete wall along a county road with nothing behind it. A street sign standing in a field, marking an intersection nobody has ever turned at. Paved roads running through scrub toward houses that were never built. There are more of these around Indian River County than you would guess, and most of them have been sitting there since about 2008. Planners call these zombie subd