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Town: Florida

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  • Local Journalism

Florida Man!

  • Deborah Fallows
  • February 16, 2024
How a regional Florida newspaper informs its citizens and encourages activism.
Two members of the Turtle Patrol at Manasota Key, Florida work on the beach on a turtle nest site.
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  • Environment & Sustainability

Turning the Tides

  • Deborah Fallows
  • September 6, 2022
Turtles, and people — a connected story, with an outcome you might not have guessed.
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  • Civic Life

A Southern City Shows How to Deal With the Past

  • James Fallows
  • December 1, 2021
This is how it looks when a community, its faith and civic organizations, and some of its leading citizens face difficult truths.
Tampa Riverwalk by night (Downtown Tampa)
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  • Economic Development

Equal Time for Tampa, and More on Asheville Too

  • James Fallows
  • April 22, 2015
Catching up with changes in major cities, and in the Atlantic's own web site
On the Albert Speer-esque Century Avenue in Pudong, Shanghai yesterday: young passers-by in front of government poster reminding them that Chinese values include filial piety and respect for age (James Fallows)
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  • Economic Development

More on Nice Downtowns: Do They Just Happen? Or Are They Made?

  • James Fallows
  • April 21, 2015
Tampa has kept trying to revive its downtown, and has kept failing. Asheville has been wildly successful—but was it even trying at all?

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