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Is Florida Still the Orange State?
By act of the Legislature, three times over. By the numbers, California grows the oranges and Brazil squeezes the juice. A short answer to a question the license plate raises.
The Dispatch · No. 01
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Florida stories, recipes, history, and news, kept alongside the things that carry them.
The Dispatch is our editorial archive: the people, places, and objects that made this state what it is. Read first, then let the collection follow from the stories.
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news · 9 min read
Why Florida's Springs Are Losing Flow
Poe Springs stopped this summer. Rainbow and Ichetucknee are running below any full year in their records. What the state's own gauges and water districts say about where the water went.
news · 18 min
The River They Put Back
In the 1960s Florida straightened the Kissimmee into a ditch. Then it spent thirty years and close to a billion dollars undoing the work. The birds came back before the bulldozers left.
news · 9 min
Blue Spring in January
In the winter of 1970-71 eleven manatees sheltered in a spring on the St. Johns River. This past winter the morning roll call passed 850.
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