Craig Pittman

Environmental Reporter, Tampa Bay Times

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Florida enviro reporter, author, avid player of radios

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Environmental Issues Endangered Species Wetlands Wildlife Smuggling Pollution Weird Florida News Sprawl Offshore Drilling 2010 Oil Spill

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Studies That Aren't Peer-Reviewed Green Consumer Goods Earth Day

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How is social media changing news?
Everyone has his or her own personal wire service now, thanks to Twitter.
Who do you wish followed you?
Dave Barry (@rayadverb)

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Oh #Florida! Actual headline: "Hell hath no fury as a woman scorned who also has your house key" nwfdailynews.com/local/crime/po…

Hell hath no fury as a woman scorned who also has your house key

nwfdailynews.com — FORT WALTON BEACH - Police have arrested a woman for an incident that occurred last year in which a man's house was broken into and some of his belongings destroyed. On July 11, 2012, a man was granted a restraining order against a 47-year-old Fort Walton Beach woman, who was told to stay at least 500 feet away from his residence.

NanetteAsimov: I'm at UC-Berkeley...clearly. ...

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Just a really cool photo of Ray Bradbury and Marlene Dietrich, 1935

dangerousminds.net — Future Sci-Fi great Ray Bradbury looks fresh-faced (he was but 15 years old) and diva's diva Dietrich, as ever, is just looking fierce when the pair were photographed together outside the gates of Paramount Pictures in 1935. I tried to figure out how these two would have known each other.
RT @RyanLizza: WP piece about another DOJ leak investigation is absolute must-read: m.washingtonpost.com/local/a-rare-p… Tactics used against Fox's Rosen…

Washington Post

washingtonpost.com — When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material. They used security badge access records to track the reporter's comings and goings from the State Department, according to a newly obtained court affidavit.
Rare crane egg in UK -- the 1st laid there in 400 years -- is given a 24-hour guard gu.com/p/3gx6n/tw

Rare crane egg given 24-hour guard

guardian.co.uk — The first common crane egg laid in western Britain for more than 400 years has been given a round-the-clock guard, conservationists said. The nesting pair that produced the egg are part of the Great Crane Project, which has been rearing cranes in captivity since 2010 and reintroducing them to the Somerset Levels and Moors where they would have been found centuries ago.
@Jennifermascia ...I suspect many 14-year-olds' parents would complain to cops about an older teen having sex with their kid. 2/2
@Jennifermascia The cheerleader's parents contend the other girl's parents are homophobes for complaining to cops. But... 1/2
@meganeabbott @examinercom If both girls had been 18, there would have been no criminal charges.
@meganeabbott @examinercom Well...technically the charges are because the other girl is 14, not because it's a same-sex relationship.
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