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June 21, 2008
Louisiana citrus growers face
Louisiana citrus growers face new threat to trees (San Francisco Chronicle)
Just as south Louisiana's citrus growers are starting to recover from Hurricane Katrina, they have a new threat: a fatal citrus disease that has infected thousands of trees in Florida and is now in the Bayou State. Citrus greening disease has been confirmed...
Hurricane Coverage (Highlands Today)
The other day a television news broadcast was telling of a new idea for hurricane coverage for Florida. The estimate for a Miami-Dade category five hurricane would cost approximately $88 billion. I thought of the Andrew and Katrina costs and have a better idea than letting out-of-state insurers chance their stakes upon the inevitable. Since our Department of Defense is very capable of defending ...
