Chief Resiliency Officer named to oversee Florida’s climate challenges

After nearly two years, Florida - often described as ground-zero for climate change and sea-level rise - once again has a dedicated Chief Resiliency Officer to oversee conservancy and environmental efforts.

Governor Ron DeSantis recently appointed Dr. Wesley Brooks to serve as the state’s next Chief Resiliency Officer. The CRO is a role that will see Brooks act as an intermediary between local and state agencies in the ongoing fight to make Florida more resilient to climate change.

Drive-in movie theater plans for St. Pete scrubbed in the post-Covid era

Places This Week: ‘Gatsby’-like mansion sells for $7.1M; Holiday Inn under new ownership

Waveney Ann Moore: Virtual tours of St. Pete’s African American Heritage Trail

In a couple of weeks, former residents of St. Petersburg’s Laurel Park and Gas Plant communities will gather to reminisce about their lives in the now vanished African-American neighborhoods.

While their homes, churches and businesses were demolished and the land on which they stood forfeited for the city’s now disparaged baseball stadium, memories live on in the stories former residents will share in a Tropicana Field parking lot Dec. 12.

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