Bernie Sanders is living proof of the old adage, "What goes around comes around." Debbie Wasserman Schultz does Sanders a bad turn, Sanders does one right back.

Cabinet members were talking softly, smiling at one another, clapping each other on the back. But anyone who couldn't sense a Baileygate hangover throbbing uncomfortably over the March 29 Cabinet meeting had his head in the sand.

While powerful advocates for rivers east and west of Lake Okeechobee -- the St. Lucie and the Caloosahatchee -- suck the oxygen out of the air in Tallahassee, the embattled Apalachicola in the Florida panhandle is right now "at the breaking point."

The river Florida uncomfortably shares with Georgia and Alabama is a vital and enormously valuable waterway, often forgotten by many Floridians.

Everglades National Park is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. And now the U.S. Postal Service will honor it with a setting-sun photograph of pinelands and grasses as the sixth of 16 Forever Stamp images to be revealed over a three-week period to celebrate the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary. The stamp was previewed in Washington, D.C. on Monday.

Gov. Rick Scott's Cara Jennings push-back ad, "Latte Liberal Gets an Earful," has been viewed in social media by more than 2 million people. If you aren't one of the 2 million, look at it here. Released Friday, the video was sponsored by Let's Get to Work, the governor's political action committee.

In case this one got by you, the first hurricane of 2016, which wasn't due until after June 1, came and went in January. And some meteorologists predict it is an indication that we can expect a more-active-than-normal hurricane season this year.

It's not often Everglades Foundation Chief Executive Officer Eric Eikenberg and I agree. But Thursday in Martin County, on Marjory Stoneman Douglas' birthday and in celebration of Everglades Day, Eikenberg told a gathering this: "Despite three estuaries in crisis, we have ONE solution and that solution is the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) …."

Congressman Patrick Murphy still wants colleague and rival Alan Grayson to resign over allegations Grayson "parlayed his post in the House into personal financial gain." That's rich. Especially when you look at Murphy's dirty hands.

Cara Jennings fans, celebrating with high-fives after watching the now-famous video of Jennings' encounter with the governor at a Gainesville Starbucks, are blaming Donald Trump for her outburst.

Environmental news in Florida rarely gives us something we can cheer. Finally, happily, an exception.

Two federal agencies Tuesday issued a final rule that will revise the listing for green sea turtles under the Endangered Species Act, including reclassifying the breeding population  originating from Florida, from endangered to threatened.

Green sea turtles breeding along the Pacific coast of Mexico are also included in the upgrade.