Picture a fuel that doesn't come from the Middle East, costs as much as six times less to produce than corn ethanol and could actually help the environment.
That's ethanol from sugarcane, which grows like weeds in Florida, and it made something of a star of Bradley Krohn on the first day of Adam Putnam's second annual Florida Energy Summit in Orlando.
Krohn is manager of Highland Envirofuels LLC.
With the overwhelming success of the United States Olympic team in the London Games just ended, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., wants to highlight the plight of winning Olympic athletes who have to pay a tax on their medals -- and he wants to bring the practice to an end.
Rubio, with Illinois Republican Aaron Schock in the House, has introduced the Olympic Tax Elimination Act, to exempt U.S. Olympic medal winners from paying taxes on their medals.
Patrick Sheehan, director of Florida's Office of Energy, believes all of Florida will benefit from the 2012 Florida Energy Summit, convening Aug. 15 in Orlando.
"We want to use this opportunity to talk to the broad range of stakeholders in Florida's energy spectrum and reflect on what we've accomplished," Sheehan told Sunshine State News.
Just when you think Florida environmentalists can't get any further out in left field, they go and drop back against the wall. I'm talking about their latest plan to budget their causes by ballot initiative.
State officeholders serve the state, not the state capital. So, good for Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi who had the guts to break out of the Tallahassee bubble.
Who knows why it took an investigative reporter 1,200 miles away in Boston to discover and expose the drumbeat of abuse going on at the Florida Institute for Neurologic Rehabilitation.
The Biscayne Bayfront Miami Herald building could go down in history as Florida's most lavishly-funded historic preservation project. And some would argue -- myself among them -- its most unworthy and possibly its most shameful.
A vicious attack mailer, an eyebrow-raiser, against former Florida Senate President Tom Lee hit mailboxes this week in Senate District 24, and among politicos in the state capital especially, it's still causing a stir.
Obama surrogates swooped into Florida Friday to drop $80 million in federal subsidies for conservation easements north of Lake Okeechobee. Thats fancy talk for paying landowners to hold water.
