No longer airing new episodes
Mike Thomas grew up in St. Petersburg and graduated from the University of Florida. From 1980 to 1983, he worked at Florida Today, starting as an environmental reporter and later moving into investigative projects. He began working at the Orlando Sentinel in March 1983 in the Kissimmee bureau, covering crime and city government. Thomas became the Sentinel's environmental reporter in 1984. Since then he has covered the Shuttle Columbia disaster, worked in the editorial board, was a state general assignment reporter and wrote the Restless Native column for the Sentinel's Florida Magazine. He began writing his current local news column in 1999.
