Craig Pittman
Writer at Freelance
WELCOME TO FLORIDA now available! Other books: NYT bestseller OH, FLORIDA! & CAT TALE. Columnist, Florida Phoenix. Florida man.
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2 days ago |
floridaphoenix.com | Craig Pittman
Last week, Florida’s recently appointed attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced that he had a pretty snazzy idea: Build the state’s biggest immigrant detention center in the middle of the Everglades and call it “Alligator Alcatraz.” (Presumably “Gator Guantánamo” was already taken.)“You don’t need to invest that much in the perimeter. People get out, there’s not that much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons,” Uthmeier said in a video he posted on X.
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1 week ago |
floridaphoenix.com | Craig Pittman
by Craig Pittman, Florida Phoenix June 19, 2025 I’m visiting family in Pensacola this week, and I noticed that the local news has been focused on feces. I don’t mean they’re cracking lots of poop jokes like SpongeBob SquarePants (“Oh, POOP, you never let us down.”) I mean they’ve been doing Very Serious Stories on how persistent sewage leaks are driving people in one high-end subdivision absolutely bonkers.
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1 week ago |
newsfromthestates.com | Craig Pittman
Share Description A Health Department sign warns swimmers about polluted water at the beach. (Photo via Environment Florida) I’m visiting family in Pensacola this week, and I noticed that the local news has been focused on feces.
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1 week ago |
theapopkavoice.com | Craig Pittman
Hey kids, here’s a civics lesson for you. The Florida Senate and House of Representatives make a lot of headlines by passing dopey laws, but that’s not their real job. Deleting mentions of climate change from state statutes? Not their job. Changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico after 500 years to the cheesy Gulf of ‘Murrica? Not their job. Supporting the wacko conspiracy theories about chemtrails? Not their job. The one thing that IS their job, kids, is passing a budget for the state. Period.
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2 weeks ago |
floridaphoenix.com | Craig Pittman
Hey kids, here’s a civics lesson for you. The Florida Senate and House of Representatives — or as they’re sometimes called, “Dumb and Dumber” — make a lot of headlines by passing dopey laws, but that’s not their real job. Deleting mentions of climate change from state statutes? Not their job. Changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico after 500 years to the cheesy Gulf of ‘Murrica? Not their job. Supporting the wacko conspiracy theories about chemtrails? Not their job.
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