The Legislature should stop second-guessing the will of the voters.

If approved by the legislature, this budget will set in stone Governor Bush's environmental legacy.

What they're trying to do is to create the opportunity for them to be able to develop their land without them having to worry about someone challenging the development based upon the sprawl or the population projection rules, and those are two key concepts that the state Department of Community Affairs and counties use to determine whether a development is appropriate.

Most environmental decisions are based on science and we should not substitute a political decision-maker for science decision-making.

It used to be that we really were opponents on a lot of policy issues. We weren't listening to each other.

Money changes everything. Especially when you have a lot of it. For Governor Bush, I think you're seeing him looking to burnish his legacy.