Monthly Archives: August 2013
Internet bullying reaching new heights among Florida politicos?
First off, let me apologize for the infrequency of my postings lately. Between the start of several new projects and feeling under the weather this past week I haven’t found the time to add new original postings since last week. In the past few weeks we have seen a proliferation of phony twitter accounts masquerading […]
Zest of the Day: Charlie Crist wasn’t always so skeptical about voter purges in Fla
From the Tampa Bay Times.
Throwback Tuesday: Governor Burns announces Disney coming to Florida
Full video can be found here on the excellent Florida Memory website.
Florida Blue Giveaway – How did it happen?
Congressman Ted Deutch and other members of Congress have asked US Department of Health to intervene since Florida’s GOP state controlled legislature decided to pass legislation that would stop the Office of Insurance from negotiating any new insurance plans under the Affordable Healthcare Act. The Act itself would assume that the state would continue to […]
Zest of the Day: Low-income schools struggle under state’s grading system
From the Miami Herald.
Kurly’s Kommentary – The Second Term: Can President Obama Mature Into a Great President?
by Steven Kurlander kurly@stevenkurlander.com “If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind” – Kurt Vonnegut Well into his second term in office, beleaguered Americans have every right to expect President Obama to make a transition from a first term presidency […]
Politics and the Growth/Fall of Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) in Florida
Today we debut a non-political feature looking at the history of some aspect of Florida’s rich cultural and economic history. Ironically however, this feature has more politics than many of the planned articles do. We start with a favorite subject of mine- aviation, though I will save my preferred history of Eastern Airlines for another […]
Zest of the Day – PolitiFact: Florida lawmakers yielded authority to negotiate rates under Obamacare
PolitiFact has ruled “true” the allegation by Congressman Ted Deutch that the Florida Legislature ceded its ability to “negotiate lower rates with companies or refuse rates that are too high.” Here is the entire ruling with analysis from PolitFact. This represents another black eye for Florida’s Legislature run by Republicans for the last 17 years but […]
Zest of the Day: The Political Hurricane on Allison Tant and the FDP with TFS Analysis
As almost everyone who reads this site likely knows, I do not always agree with Dave Trotter. We have had some differences of opinion over the past many years, but I must admit the infographic sent out by the Florida Democratic Party this morning was odd to say the least. Mr. Trotter states a point […]
Throwback Tuesday: Remembering Air Florida
Air Florida is today remembered for one thing- the tragic Potomac River crash in January 1982 that killed 78 people both on the plane and on the 14th Street Bridge which the aircraft crashed into shortly after taking off from Washington National Airport. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Florida had its own international […]
The Florida Squeeze 