That's the doomsday message in a current Time magazine article entitled, ominously, "Is Florida the Sunset State?" (sunshine, sunset, ha) and subheaded with a litany of the state's troubles: "Water Crisis, Mortgage Fraud, Political Dysfunction, Algae Polluted Beaches, Declining Crops, Failing Public Schools, Foreclosures."
We're the state that has it all!
Author Michael Grunwald allows that the winters are nice, and has a conversation with Gov. Crist that brightens his outlook a bit, comparing the guv to "human Prozac." But the overall tone is grim, ending with the point that Florida may know how to grow, but has yet to learn how to grow up.
