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Hurricane Milton should be a wake-up call: Stop building near the water | Opinion

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Hurricanes Helene and Milton should be the wake-up call, which we ignored with Katrina and Michael .

Coastal areas must be required to pay the real actuarial price to insure structures that are certain to be destroyed.

This is the year to not be red or blue but to be red, white and blue for the 2024 presidential election.

Miami-Dade has an opportunity to eliminate the distribution of single-use plastics and polystyrene in all future county contracts with concessionaires and at county-run concessions.

This measure would significantly reduce the volume of waste entering the bay and offer a critical solution to the county’s broader waste crisis.

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English

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