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On high school registration day this year, I watched with a sense of existential dread as an English teacher rolled a cart full of Primo Levi and Shakespeare paperbacks out of the classroom...
The
inside story of Cocoa Beach's First Federal Savings and Loan
Building is too squalid and tangled a yarn to weave into the space
of this column. But forget the inside story for a moment. The
outside story provides a simple enough object
lesson...
Jon Hamilton interviews Dan at Hightower Beach.
"A Coastal Paradise Confronts Its Watery Future."
Until politicians come to reject the notion that billions spent on fomenting anger and division is a good and proper use of funds, while local infrastructure projects are items to be scrapped over, skinned, and picked apart...
In a clandestine shaping room at the
southern edge of Cocoa Beach, Larry Mayo takes his caliper
to a slab of US Blanks foam. He’s about the same size as the
blank...
In the aftermath of the election, we
might find no better example of ballot-box fraud than
Amendment 1, the initiative meant to suppress the
proliferation of solar power in the Sunshine State...
I am in a dive bar in Minneapolis,
waiting out the interlude between poets, watching William
Tyler navigate a tractate of reverb...
The shaper
formerly known as George Robinson looks too thickly alive,
too vital for a man who has been planing and sanding rails
for 46 years...
Sam Lopez, president of United Third
Bridge, a Hispanic Civil Rights organization, is
spearheading a campaign to name Brevard's barrier island
"Ponce de Leon Island"...
It was admirable of Caroline Kennedy to
speak up in protest of the annual Taiji dolphin slaughter,
but when she tweeted that the U.S. government "opposes
drive hunt fisheries,"...
Look into the
reflected sunset, the pink-ribboned sky pillowed with golden
fire, and you might convince yourself that the Banana River is
the same river you once knew. Beneath the glass, a thriving,
crystalline estuary, flush with living
creatures....
Cocoa Beach has a Vision Plan for its downtown.
But a vocal minority stands in opposition.
It’s summertime, and somewhere near Minutemen
Causeway...
Last March, in response to protests over
the Trayvon Martin shooting, Governor Rick Scott appointed a
task force to review Florida's Stand Your Ground
law...
Brevard's beach renourishment has all the
makings of biblical allegory: apocalyptic storms, rising
floodwaters, relentless stretches of sand. In my last
editorial...
Here they come - look to the east and you
will see them - floating goliaths, hopper dredges, those
federally appointed defenders of the barrier island...
In March, the Center for Disease Control
released an alarming statistic: one in 68 children is
currently diagnosed with autism. Should the trend continue
at its current pace...
If you're among the 95 million Americans
who still pay for "live television", you might want to
consider these statistics...
For years, the Atlantic Ocean has been
swelling up, but in the aftermath of hurricane Sandy, the
East Coast is finally beginning to take notice...
For all the liberties afforded the
American consumer in the information age, one remains
scandalously absent: the freedom to choose our political
leaders...
My fascination with dolphins started on a small,
sand-dredged mound of muck in the Mosquito Lagoon, somewhere off
Canaveral National Seashore, where I camped the night of New Year’s
Eve, 2000, along with twelve of my closest friends –– a band of
lonely children on the dark, starlit river...
Five years ago, a telephone was something
you picked up when you wanted to talk to someone...
Last month, I traveled to Port-au-Prince
as a volunteer for the 28th Carter Work Project, to help
build homes for Haitian families displaced by the 2010
earthquake...
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