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Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed $6.25 million that the Legislature budgeted for restoring the Ocklawaha River and dismantling the ...
Removing the Rodman Dam once again proved to be one of the most intractable environmental issues in Florida, one that has flummoxed governors, federal bureaucrats, political operatives and activists ...
Advocates for restoring the Ocklawaha River are undeterred by a recent veto setback and are moving ahead and regrouping to ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis on June 30 signed the 2025-26 budget after vetoing almost $600 million in programs and projects from the ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed what he said was a $117.4 billion budget and issued $567 million in line-item vetoes.
DeSantis slashed $500,000 to study the potential environmental and economic effects of removing the dam last year.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed what he said was a $117.4 billion budget for the fiscal year that will start Tuesday and ...
Gov. DeSantis signs budget that keeps UNF string of budget wins going for another year. He vetoed Rodman dam removal for ...
The budget includes 2 percent pay raises for most state employees. Meanwhile, the plan eliminates more than 1,000 vacant state government positions.
But fisherman long defended the dam, which was renamed the Rodman-Kirkpatrick dam in 1998 after since deceased Sen. George ...
Of course, this being Florida, it’s never as simple as taking two steps ... he has some important decisions ahead — like the future of the Rodman Dam and Ocklawaha River. The legislature passed a ...
A decades-old fight about possibly tearing down North Florida’s Rodman Dam and restoring the Ocklawaha River is flaring again.