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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.”
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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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.
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On the necessity of Monster Jam
Mourning a loss with Really Big Trucks.