A Reporter at Large
After the Storm, Cape Coral Learns to Listen to Itself
For eleven consecutive days, the water came up as if the Gulf were simply looking for a place to sit down.
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Investigations, dispatches, and features from correspondents stationed between the coasts.
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Letter From Little Havana
The Bus Line That Redrew a Neighborhood
Route 11 became the shortest argument in Miami's long conversation about who belongs on Calle Ocho.
Annals of Justice
The File That Sat in a Tallahassee Basement for Nineteen Years
How one paralegal's stubbornness undid a wrongful conviction that the panhandle had agreed to forget.
Dispatch From the Ten Thousand Islands
A Fisherman Who Kept a Tide Journal for Forty Years
His waterproof notebooks now sit in a climate lab in Gainesville, quietly rewriting the Gulf.
Annals of Technology
The Orlando Startup That Sold Silence
Inside a company that convinced strip-mall offices to pay for what the library on Colonial has always given away.
Annals of Wildlife
The Python Hunter Who Reads Cormac McCarthy in the Cab
Forty-two nights on Loop Road with a state contractor, a headlamp, and a well-thumbed paperback.
Letter from Apalachicola
The Low-Water Line
As the Apalachicola Bay oyster industry faces closure, third-generation harvesters grapple with the shifting chemistry of the river and the encroaching tide of high-end developments.
Annals of Wildlife
Path of the Panther
In the shrinking pine flatwoods of Collier County, biologists and landowners trace the delicate, increasingly perilous highway of Florida’s most reclusive predator.
Annals of Justice
Shifting Sands
A quiet battle over beach nourishment in Broward County reveals the high-stakes legal and ecological skirmishes surrounding the state's most precious commodity.
A Reporter at Large
The Aquifer's Keeps
Exploring the subterranean labyrinth of Florida’s freshwater caves, where cave divers and geologists track the invisible pollution threatening the state’s drinking water.
Dispatch from Belle Glade
The Burning Season
On the southern lip of Lake Okeechobee, the seasonal burning of sugarcane fields creates an annual harvest of ash, jobs, and long-simmering community divisions.
Annals of Technology
Solar in the Shade
In the solar-rich suburbs of Fort Myers, local grid policies and utility lobbying complicate the transition to residential sun-powered energy.
Letter from Homestead
The Avocado Border
In the agricultural fields of Miami-Dade County, immigrant laborers and small growers navigate a changing labor climate and the sudden resurgence of root rot.
Annals of Government
The Floating City
On the low-lying canals of Cape Coral, city planners face a daunting infrastructure deficit as they attempt to refit a mid-century suburb for the modern high tide.
A Reporter at Large
The Great Constriction
Following the professional bounty hunters who brave the night-black marshes of the Everglades to pull invasive Burmese pythons from the sawgrass.
Annals of Justice
Pulp and Circumstance
A trial in Polk County sheds light on the bizarre and lucrative black market for orange grove leases and clandestine fruit brokerage.
Dispatch from Yeehaw Junction
The Junction's Ghost
At a forgotten highway crossing in Osceola County, the remnants of Old Florida struggle to survive alongside proposed toll roads and mega-lot sub-developments.
Annals of Wildlife
Warm-Water Asylum
At the discharge canals of a Tampa power plant, hundreds of West Indian manatees huddle for survival against the background of a failing Indian River Lagoon.
Annals of Science
Red Tide Grey Air
Along the Gulf Coast, researchers race to understand the long-term health consequences of aerosolized toxins carried inland by recurring outbreaks of Karenia brevis.
Letter from Key West
The Last High Ground
As housing prices and sea levels rise in tandem, the historic working-class community of Key West finds itself squeezed out of the very island it built.
Annals of Infrastructure
The Wall at Lake Okeechobee
Inside the decades-long, multi-billion-dollar effort to fortify the Herbert Hoover Dike, the massive earthen wall that stands between South Florida and catastrophe.
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