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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…
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Florida voters could decide the 2012 presidential election. We have more electoral votes than any other swing state. Miami Herald Pulitzer-Prize winning…
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Flagler County, where Palm Coast is located, has the highest unemployment rate in Florida. 1 in 8 workers there is without a job.Our Dispatches from the…
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Everyone #FLDispatches talked to about oystering told us the same thing: oysters are unusually scarce this season. 32-year-old Matt Hodges has been…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Mark Riggs, 42, says the Sunset Celebration at MallorySquare is an economic bellwether. "If the economy is not good we’rethe first ones hurt because no…
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Mike Tatum, 49Landscaper, Handyman, EvangelistBig Coppitt Key, FLProbably won't vote, but likes Pres. Obama if he does. "He's a Democrat," Tatum said,…
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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…