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Walking the literal red line in St. Petersburg’s structural racism study
City Wilds.
Thomas Hallock
Thomas Hallock is Professor of English at the University of South Florida St Petersburg. He is currently writing a book of travel essays about why he loves teaching the American literature survey, called A Road Course in American Literature.
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An open letter to Stu Sternberg: If you cannot love this city back, please, just walk away
“I will not support any politician who caves into a sucker’s bargain.”
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New ‘Creekshed Project’ will look for the headwaters of Tampa Bay’s polluted gulf
Tracing tributaries helps us see how we have engineered growing crises
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Old wounds and big promises weigh on proposals for redevelopment of St. Pete’s Tropicana Field
City Wilds asks, ‘Which one best serves the city’s most pressing needs?’
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Dive in: Three must-read works by the late, great Floridian author Bill Belleville
Call you local independent book store to if they can get these titles in your hand.
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‘He opened his heart to the wild world’: Florida authors remember Bill Belleville
Carl Hiaasen said, ‘He was a wonderful writer who always portrayed Florida with a native insight and special affection.’
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Bill Belleville’s love of Florida waterways reminds us that we are only single players in a long procession
Carl Hiaasen says he ‘always portrayed Florida with a native insight and special affection.’
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John Nolen gave St. Pete a plan to embrace nature, but the city passed
City Wilds.
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Proposed plans for St. Pete’s Gas Plant site raise red flags for a neighborhood thats been wronged before.
‘The site, first and foremost, should redeem our past default.’
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City Wilds: Gas Plant — imagining a lost neighborhood
The promise of baseball and a community lost.
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City Wilds: A classic Florida storm story, c. 1542
No matter the century, storm stories always involve losing power.
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City Wilds: Paddling toward reparations
Booker Creek, a stadium nobody likes and a city’s unresolved conflicts.
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City Wilds: Gardening with Mr. Clowers
Recovering what we forgot, one okra at a time.
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City Wilds: Spiderwort, the Pocahontas flower
Love, death and the exquisite history of the flower we mow over.
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City Wilds: Trespassing, Crystal Springs
Where does the river end and lawful access begin?
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City Wilds: Crossing Tampa Bay, courtesy of the Deepwater Horizon
A skeptic makes peace with the Cross-Bay Ferry.
