TCPALM.COM Editorial:
NEW DIRECTION: It was a bad decision last spring by Osceola County commissioners to open the headwaters of the Everglades to development.
What were they thinking?
However, after Audubon of Florida sued the county, commissioners did something worth noting: They changed course and reversed their decision.
The Everglades — one of the nation’s greatest environmental treasures — already has enough problems. Opening the headwaters to development — and all the potential environmental problems that can follow from such a decision — was clearly a step in the wrong direction.