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
Enforcement Collapse, Injected Sewage Coming Back Up, and more
Florida Logged 1,593 Sewage Spills Last Year and Answered With 90 Enforcement Actions That ratio (roughly eighteen spills for every enforcement action) is the clearest picture of what environmental protection looks like in Florida right now. And 2025 was the better year. In 2024, the state recorded 2,280 pollution incidents and brought just 63 domestic wastewater enforcement actions, a rate of about thirty-six to one. Between 2000 and early 2022, more than 2.4 billion gallons