
Craig Pittman
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WELCOME TO FLORIDA now available! Other books: NYT bestseller OH, FLORIDA! & CAT TALE. Columnist, Florida Phoenix. Florida man.
St. Petersburg FL
Joined August 2009
Nothing like opening the Sunday edition of #Florida's largest newspaper and seeing this piece about my new book THE STATE YOU'RE IN occupying nearly a full page in the features section. via @colettemb
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It's "Oh, #Florida! The Newsletter," busting into your TL like a guy in handcuffs who's dressed as Chuck E. Cheese! .
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Sunday afternoons are a GREAT time to catch up on the "Welcome to #Florida" podcast! In recent episodes, we've talked about FL fruits & veggies, the Reconstruction Era, Cedar Key & the "super trees" that could save the citrus industry. Take a bite!
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Best selling author, award winning reporter and Florida native Craig Pittman is joined by radio personality and Florida transplant Chadd Scott to discuss the state's history, people, politics,...
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Pollution from South #Florida is messing up North Florida's best-known river, the St. Johns -- and nobody in charge wants to fix it. My latest column for @FLPhoenixNews also features shout-outs to Shakespeare, Iron Man and the Avengers.
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Biosolids spread on farmers’ fields as fertilizer are causing toxic algae blooms in the St. Johns
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For our latest "Welcome to #Florida" episode, we talked to @daliacolon about our fruits & veggies, which are faaaaaarrrrr more than just oranges. They really have a lot of a-peel!
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It's "Oh, #Florida! The Newsletter," spraying into your TL like a woman using bear mace to teach a driver a lesson about running over chickens!
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Sunday afternoons are a GREAT time to catch up on the "Welcome to #Florida" podcast. In recent episodes we've learned about Reconstruction, Cedar Key, "White Trash Cooking" and supertrees that could save the citrus industry. Pick a couple!
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Best selling author, award winning reporter and Florida native Craig Pittman is joined by radio personality and Florida transplant Chadd Scott to discuss the state's history, people, politics,...
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If you need a primer on the suddenly resurgent Epstein scandal, we at the "Welcome to #Florida" podcast interviewed Miami Herald investigative journalist Julie K. Brown about her book on the case in 2021:
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Column: Get ready for a hike -- a hike in the price to use our national parks & forests, now that steep budget cuts are leaving concessionaires in charge. My latest for @FLPhoenixNews includes shout-outs to Ken Burns & Teddy Roosevelt.
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I have a friend named Sandra Friend. She writes guidebooks about hiking in Florida. Not long ago, my friend named Friend contacted me about a different kind of hike: the hike in prices for using our...
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For our latest "Welcome to #Florida" podcast episode, we talked to historian & writer Robert Macomber about the Reconstruction era in post-Civil War FL & the work of the Freedmen's Bureau
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Sunday afternoons are a GREAT time to catch up on the "Welcome to #Florida" podcast! In recent episodes we've explored Cedar Key, the "supertrees" that cd save our citrus, "White Trash Cooking" & the urban explorer behind Abandoned FL. Check 'em out!
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Best selling author, award winning reporter and Florida native Craig Pittman is joined by radio personality and Florida transplant Chadd Scott to discuss the state's history, people, politics,...
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Column: The DEP's latest plans for cleaning up #Florida's embattled springs are just as bad as all the previous ones. My latest for @FLPhoenixNews also features shout-outs to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" & P.T. Barnum.
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Florida’s springs are one of the natural wonders of our state. As a result, I naturally wonder why the government agency in charge of protecting them thinks it’s OK to let them become cesspools of...
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For our latest "Welcome to #Florida" podcast episode, we explore Cedar Key with novelist and clam farmer Michael Presley Bobbitt, who calls himself the island's "Clambassador."
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It's "Oh, #Florida! The Newsletter," exploding into your TL like a batch of fireworks set off by a lightning bolt!
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Sunday afternoons are a GREAT time to catch up on the "Welcome to #Florida" podcast. In recent episodes we've explored the "super-trees" that could replace citrus, "White Trash Cooking," the explorer behind "Abandoned FL" & Biscayne Bay. Dive in!
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Best selling author, award winning reporter and Florida native Craig Pittman is joined by radio personality and Florida transplant Chadd Scott to discuss the state's history, people, politics,...
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Column: A big #Florida developer tried to build houses in a flood-prone area & county commissioners told him a word he'd rarely heard before: NO! My latest for @FLPhoenixNews also includes shout-outs to Handel, "Hamilton" & the Wizard of Oz.
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There’s a tradition that when someone sings Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus,” everyone has to stand. So please rise as I warble several heartfelt hallelujahs over what the Manatee County Commission did...
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For our latest "Welcome to #Florida" podcast, we chatted with @MikeGrunwald about his new book WE ARE EATING THE EARTH & especially the part where he describes "super-trees" that could bail out the embattled citrus industry.
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It's "Oh, #Florida! The Newsletter," leaping into your TL like a shark jumping up from the waves to head-butt a surfer dude!
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Sunday afternoons are a GREAT time to catch up on the "Welcome to #Florida" podcast. In recent episodes, we've delved into "White Trash Cooking," crocodiles, "Abandoned Florida," pioneering photographer Julian Dimock & Biscayne Bay. Dive in, y'all!
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Best selling author, award winning reporter and Florida native Craig Pittman is joined by radio personality and Florida transplant Chadd Scott to discuss the state's history, people, politics,...
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