Time slags the ‘Sunset State’
July 14, 2008 at 5:15 pm by Wayne GarciaMore than two decades after first taking a whack at Florida, Time is again smacking our Sunshiney butts. This week’s issue revisits its 1981 “Paradise Lost?” cover (shown here from 
today’s Miami Herald article on the update).
From Time’s missive, about Florida having mild winters, but:
Otherwise, there’s trouble in paradise. We’re facing our worst real estate meltdown since the Depression. We’ve got a water crisis, insurance crisis, environmental crisis and budget crisis to go with our housing crisis. We’re first in the nation in mortgage fraud, second in foreclosures, last in high school graduation rates. Our consumer confidence just hit an all-time low, and our icons are in trouble–the citrus industry, battered by freezes and diseases; the Florida panther, displaced by highways and driveways; the space shuttle, approaching its final countdown. New research suggests that the Everglades is collapsing, that our barrier beaches could be under water within decades, that a major hurricane could cost us $150 billion.
The article then goes on to detail many of the same woes that I addressed in my Fix It Now special reports. Nice to know we can agree on the problems; the solutions are another matter. The political will to implement those solutions? Nowhere on the horizon.
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July 16th, 2008 at 12:20 am
The article in Time was shallow. Thanks for the Fix It Now reports. Too bad we have no popular “Radio Consciencia.” Insead we have geniuses like Mark Levin, Mike Gallagher and Rusty Humphries. The Times is good, but the TBT is apocalyptic. You gys at Loafing have ads for whores. I’m just sayin…