Good to read in the Herald that the rock miners didn’t get what they wanted out of the Florida Senate: a plan to circumvent local control of permits to build new mines. But with rock miners influence of the legislature, and its army of lobbyists who need to be fed, the miners will not go away.

In 2005 Miami-Dade rock miners, with the help of local attorney Miguel DeGrandy, pushed through a last minute, midnight express that capped its liability for the cost of new water treatment plants that will have to be built, because of threats its activity pose to nearby drinking water wellfields; as in “worried about your drinking water, you should be.”

Now, a comment on “Push made to refurbish old stadium”, relative to the Miami Marine Stadium off Rickenbacker Causeway on Key Biscayne.

The stadium is a relic of the long-gone age of local tourism. Once upon a time, Miami was a place where visitors experienced the novelty of the tropics in winter, with water-ski shows at the stadium showing, no doubt, the marvels of balance and skill. Now some rowers use the lagoon. The stadium is an eye-sore. On the other side, Seaquarium staggers along.

Surely there is a passive, public use– like waterfront access available to people for free that makes more sense.

The Marine Stadium will never have an audience, any more than Parrot Jungle does in its new location no one visits.

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