The Annual Dance: Reporting Back to City Council

staugustine.com: the oldest city's home on the Net:

"But less positively, the two consultants recommended that the district switch from using organo-phosphate chemicals to ones used by most other Florida counties but banned in Europe.
The two consultants also reported that the Ponte Vedra Beach station facility, now closed, was not repairable due to rust, and that staff morale was down due to press reports of board infighting.

Activist Ed Slavin of St. Augustine attacked the report, saying Dame and Beidler had performed 'an exercise in good-old-boy issues' and were practicing 'junk science' because they had avoided taking on developers by not addressing vacant land that contains ponds or other waterways.

This is what kills me. You have two people who have nearly 80 years of mosquito control experience under their belts. You have city council people who are influenced by activists armed with all the stuff they find on the internet, because if you read it on the internet, it must be true.

Tie it all in with lazy reporting, see above, and you have a muddying of the facts and no way for a consumer to make an informed decision. They recommend consolidating, and are getting flack for getting rid of OPs in favor of the products being used all over the state (and gee reporter, thanks for clearing up what the products are), and getting new equipment to treat unreachable areas. Aren't those all good things?