Reporter for @TB_Times covering the environment. @UFJSchool grad 🖋@WUSF @WUFT @TheAlligator @GainesvilleSun he/him | [email protected]
St. Petersburg, FL
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This @TB_Times Spotlight event is going to be pretty cool. Hope you'll join us, you can meet the Times Environment Hub before the event, we'll have a table. Come meet @MaxChesnes @mahoneysthename and @jack_prator, who will moderate the panel.
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We joined scientists on a research expedition last week 100 miles offshore Florida to study the largest fish in the sea
It’s rare enough to document one whale shark feeding in the Gulf. On Tuesday, they found 14
Read our story @TB_Times:
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“Because you make more money off the apartments? Because we’re poor and you don’t give a sh-t about your people?” one former resident of the park said of the plans to develop now that most residents have been removed. “That’s not right.”
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NEW, as part of a series called POWER STRUGGLE ⚡️
Around Tampa Bay + beyond, residents were stunned by their electric bills this year, particularly during the summer.
Here’s why they were so high. w/ @Michaela_Mull @jack_prator @MaxChesnes @TB_Times
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NEW: Floridians and politicians were confused and outraged about a deal for the state to pay $83M for 4 acres of land in Destin.
New records show a lobbyist for the landowner wrote the proposal that led to the purchase.
w/ @MaxChesnes, h/t @Jason_Garcia
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Hillsborough chief deputy resigned amid academic cheating probe @TB_Times tampabay.com/news/hillsborou…
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What happens when hurricanes batter the organizations that help others? @jack_prator and @DirkShadd show us how local nonprofits fought through last year's devastating hurricanes to keep their operations going.
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"Then a jagged rostrum breached from below the murky water." What a tale from @jack_prator @Michaela_Mull @cliftimestweet and Jeff Woo about the extraordinary effort by @CoastalElasmos with assists from @myfwc @NOAAFisheries to save an endangered sawfish
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There were a lot of moving parts on this story today, but we pulled it all together. Proud of this comprehensive follow-up w/ @jack_prator @Michaela_Mull @alexacoultoff @TMarreroTimes @EmilyWunderlich @DirkShadd of @TB_Times
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Happy #EarthDay2025 everyone.
Allow me to piggyback on today’s festivities to notify you of an important venture undertaken by the @TB_Times.
This spring we’ve created the Environment Hub, a concentration of our environmental reporting into a core coverage area.
Why?
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So we’ve dedicated a primary team of four reporters and an editor to the Environment Hub: @MaxChesnes; @mahoneysthename; @jack_prator; @Michaela_Mull and @christisch1.
Meet them here: tampabay.com/connect-with-us…
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Was this Clearwater police detective tipping off drug dealers running a multi-million dollar trafficking operation? Or just trying to build "rapport" with informants? Via @jack_prator
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From parks to hurricanes and more, there’s no shortage of Florida environmental news lately
Consider supporting our newly formed @TB_Times environment hub 👇
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BREAKING: Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg has called St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch to inform him the Rays will not meet the March 31 deadline to move forward with a stadium deal.
This is a developing story. We'll keep updating.
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NEW: When the @TB_Times revealed the state was pursing golf, hotels, pickleball + more on 9 state parks, Florida was stunned.
How could officials make plans threatening beloved wild spaces in secret?
This is the story of how it happened. w/ @MaxChesnes: tampabay.com/news/environmen…
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As Hurricane Helene relief rolled out, I embedded with the wide-eyed volunteers trying to help. I hopped on their helicopters, bush planes, ATVs and (almost) their horses.
Here's what we saw. Here's what I learned:
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“We’ve never seen anything of this magnitude before, we’ve never seen this influx of people from out of the area that are clearly just here to steal and to pilfer and to do bad things and to target these vulnerable people,” the sheriff said.
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After a crane plunged hundreds of feet and hit an office building during Hurricane Milton, many in Tampa Bay are asking: How could this happen?
No one except the contractor appears to be investigating. tampabay.com/hurricane/2024/… @BetsBarnes @Colleen_Wright @rwoolington @DirkShadd
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Just a note that water samplers still need to confirm with data whether this is red tide — and just how strong it’s blooming
Sampling was paused because of the storm but will be picking back up today. We’re all curious what the results will show
Ughhh just what we needed. Red tide is back and it's a bad bloom. These outbreaks are common after hurricanes (this time 2 #Helene & #Milton) because they upwell nutrients from the deeper/ cooler Gulf bottom feeding algae blooms. Related article on Irma features.miami.edu/2018/are-…
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For my Brandon/Riverview friends, looks like the Alafia is expected to reach record flood levels. #HurricaneMilton #Alafia
