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Back to SearchEpisode 120: A Land Remembered
Season 3 Episode 120
Developers and road builders want to plow through a state forest in the Panhandle to bring more people to the Gulf Coast.
Patrick Smith wrote "A Land …
3 years, 5 months ago
Episode 119: Key Lime Pie!
Season 3 Episode 119
How do land developers almost always get what they want in Florida even if state law or local residents don't support them? Bribes.
Our guest this ep…
3 years, 6 months ago
Episode 118: Miami's 1920s real estate boom & bust
Season 3 Episode 118
County officials in Sarasota have amended their COMP plan to allow for greater development into rural areas.
Our guest is historian and Miami native a…
3 years, 6 months ago
Episode 117: Lynching in Florida
Season 3 Episode 117
Florida's history of racial violence is examined in this episode. Our guest is Tameka Hobbs, Executive Director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute a…
3 years, 6 months ago
Episode 116: Cassadaga Spiritualists
Season 3 Episode 116
Twelve years of work attempting to find common ground between developers and conservationists in southwest Florida goes down the drain because the de…
3 years, 6 months ago
Episode 115: The KKK in Florida
Season 3 Episode 115
The Gas and Oil Party (GOP), wants Floridians to believe that it's possible to both promote drilling in the Gulf of Mexico AND protect Florida beache…
3 years, 7 months ago
Episode 114: Flamingos!
Season 3 Episode 114
Craig Pittman is taking after Ron DeSantis and "firing" people in state government he doesn't think are getting the job done.
Our guest this week is f…
3 years, 7 months ago
Episode 113: The Columbia, Florida's oldest restaurant
Season 3 Episode 113
The annual state python hunt which is open to the public wrapped up recently; Craig took a look at the efficacy of these contests for his latest "Flo…
3 years, 7 months ago
Episode 112: Florida's monkey colonies
Season 3 Episode 112
Our episode begins with Craig's latest Florida Phoenix column on how state Republicans are trying to connect fighting climate change and transitionin…
3 years, 7 months ago
Episode 111: Ringling and Sarasota's Circus History
Season 3 Episode 111
Florida isn't serious about water quality, if it were, it wouldn't keep allowing developers to install septic tanks.
Our guest this week is Jennifer L…
3 years, 8 months ago