That's one way to spend taxpayer dollars. Maybe they should call expert witnesses from New Orleans to testify what happens when you don't have proper flood control.

I believe that we should spend taxpayer dollars where they are most needed,

It's probably a list of about 50 witnesses, about half of which I expect to testify.

I always push for the stars. They need to spend a million (dollars) or more. They need to call Red Bull, Frito-Lay and Pepsi like Asheville (N.C.) did, and they'll get a million.

When the C-43 first became an Everglades restoration project, quantity was the issue. But then last summer we had all the problems with blue-green algae and concern over whether it would have low water quality. So at that point the district said we would include water-quality options when we are creating our test cell.

That will be hard for the people wanting to build.