Guest column: Are ‘little’ wetlands worth saving? [Excerpt]
By Maggy Hurchalla February 22, 2017 TC Palm . . . Recently, the chairman of the Martin County Commission and the head of the Economic Council of Martin County joined Big ...
Give Sen. Negron’s plan a chance
By Maggy Hurchalla December 29, 2016 Florida Today A statewide campaign to discredit Sen. Joe Negron’s effort to “Buy the land to send the water south” is now underway. Opponents ...
Martin County being asked to ease environmental protections on wetlands
By Lidia Dinkova December 23, 2016 TC Palm MARTIN COUNTY — The county has been asked to loosen its environmental protections to allow developers to build on some smaller wetlands. Land-planner Don Cuozzo has asked the ...
Maggy Hurchalla: Don’t dismiss dangers of algae in our waterways
By Maggy Hurchalla Guest Column for TC Palm June 27, 2016 No one wants to be Chicken Little. The sky wasn't falling. The silly bird panicked over a little acorn. ...
Guest Column: More Lake Okeechobee water is moving south — but our work isn’t done
from Maggy Hurchalla, via tcpalm.com Since the summer of 2013 we've been asking all the powers that be to buy the land and send the water south. Last week Gov. ...
Lake Point case enters critical phase: Trial set for September
As the Lake Point case enters a new and critical phase, the Martin County legal team has been fortified with a top-ranked statewide law firm, De La Parte & Gilbert, ...
Point of view: Hold elected officials accountable when it comes to Everglades Restoration
By Maggy Hurchalla, palmbeachpost.com Posted: 4:20 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016 In the 1990s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was asked to save the Everglades. They put up ...
Guardian Board Advisor Maggy Hurchalla on Legislature’s spending of Water Money
from tcpalm.com, Guest Column In 2009, the Florida legislature responded to the recession by raiding the Florida Forever Trust Fund. Lawmakers said they had to do it because they had ...
Editorial: Florida Legislature should pass anti-SLAPP bill
tcpalm.com Apr 16, 2015 opinion | editorials Can you be sued for speaking out against a proposed development in the Sunshine State? Yes. And it happens more than you may ...