Michael Gracie 

Guest Commentary by Tom “Lemonade” Teasdale It is no secret that 3M is one of the largest corporations in America today. They make everything from the tape we wrap our holiday gifts with to aerospace polymers used to build stealth fighters. Such a large corporation is ultimately responsible to its shareholders to create value, however, [...]

Fly-fishing is about ambiguity: when you start the day you’re never 100% sure what to throw, but almost 1% certain what nature will throw back. If you tear the place apart it’s guaranteed that you’ll stretch the truth far beyond your success, and if you don’t you’ll pull numerous excuses out of inventory. Reaching the [...]

When I was young (a long long time ago) I was let loose each day to explore. No organized outing, no “play date”. Just be home for dinner. Maybe. Those adventures inevitably brought me to the water. Any water would do. I quit the soccer team so I could accompany a buddy on after school [...]

Low and behold, I’m spending my winter/spring transition in the salt. Captain James “Grand Poobah” Snyder (a.k.a. Commander-In-Chief, Primal Fly South), is my host. Before we begin I’ll note for the record that the ambiance down here is first-class through and through (or maybe GP and his sidekick Sissy “The Brains AND the Beauty” Sessanna [...]

An eighteen month plus study into new ways to manage resources in the Everglades National Park watershed (emphasis: Florida Bay and the Gulf Coast from Ten Thousand Islands to Flamingo) has been completed, and alternatives are now on the table. Propeller scarring on sea grass seems to be one of the (if not THE) major [...]

Pete McDonald follows up on the WSJ brownlining hoopla with some tasty tidbits out of the great state of Florida: Before brownlining there was ditch fishing. The concept of casting flies in less than pristine settings goes back decades. In Florida, many well known fly fishing luminaries and pioneers cut their teeth fishing the Everglades [...]

Technology Surprise – cyber-crooks are targeting Facebook. This is like shooting fish in a barrel, but Facebook participants won’t understand that until it’s too late. They are busy throwing up pages in a vain attempt to garner attention, and have to figure out that the barrel is already too big first. Speaking of social networks, [...]

From the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission : Crocodile-human interactions have increased as the crocodile population has recovered. One technique to resolve these conflicts is translocation. This involves capturing the crocodile and moving it to suitable crocodile habitat as far away as possible, in an attempt to keep it away from an area. However, [...]

Cheer and good tidings first; light reading last Charlie Crist calls for an investigation of “Florida’s subprime-tainted fund.” It’s really a SIV tainted fund and a sub-prime tainted SIV, but I’ll spare you the details. More on the Florida Fund fiasco here, here, and here. Research In Motion: no slowdown. Is it a consumer thing? [...]

Actually, it started off horrible, then things started looking up. Now disclosure questions are making things look bad again.