How To Drink To A Presidential Debate
Key West's "Smallest Bar" is 72-square-feet of cash-only drinks and customer abuse. "No, I'm not from here," says bartender Dean Humfleet, "I have all my teeth."
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David Shealy makes a lot of his money off Florida’s version of Bigfoot. He sells T-shirts, bumper stickers and hot sauce out of the Skunk Ape Research Headquarters off the Tamiami Trail in Ochopee,...
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During the previous debate, our Dispatches from the Swing State team met an interesting character in a Key West pub -- a local server named Patti Wilde who is originally from Cincinnati and is...
View ArticleHow To Drink To A Presidential Debate
Key West's "Smallest Bar" is 72-square-feet of cash-only drinks and customer abuse. "No, I'm not from here," says bartender Dean Humfleet, "I have all my teeth." Smallest Bar is one part tiki hut, one...
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Mark Riggs, 42, says the Sunset Celebration at Mallory Square is an economic bellwether. "If the economy is not good we’re the first ones hurt because no one has to tip us or pay us," he says. Still,...
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Twin sisters Carrie Guise of Tampa, Fla., and Mindy Magrath of Raleigh, N.C., came to Key West to celebrate their birthday, not talk politics. But when #FLDispatches discovered the sisters had parted...
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Jimmy Lewis admits his presidential preference is controversial among his fishing friends and family. But there’s something about Barrack Obama that has convinced Lewis the President truly understands...
View ArticleDISPATCH: Cuban-American Artist In Miami
Known just by his first name, Antuan, the 40-year-old artist is a sculptor provocateur whose work is at times absurd (brains, pills and ashtrays) and more often profound (Holocaust memorial pieces)....
View ArticleDISPATCH: The Forgotten Gladesman
David Shealy makes a lot of his money off Florida’s version of Bigfoot. He sells T-shirts, bumper stickers and hot sauce out of the Skunk Ape Research Headquarters off the Tamiami Trail in Ochopee,...
View ArticleWhere Do Goat Cheese, Trickle Down Economics And Swing State Voters Meet?
There were just over 21-hundred jobs in the agriculture and mining sector in Lee County, by the last census numbers. Our Dispatches from the Swing State project dropped in on one of the less...
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