Monthly Archives: August 2013
Zest of the Day: House Speaker Will Weatherford connected to Citizens contractor
Excellent Tampa Bay Times piece. which raises many questions.
The Florida Squeeze Podcast – Episode 1
Kartik Krishnaiyer, Justin Snyder and Nick Steffens recorded the first Florida Squeeze Podcast late Sunday. The program embedded below discusses the Dream Defenders, Rick Scott’s handling of the Martin verdict and some of economic issues impacting Florida. This pod may be somewhat rough around the edges as our intent was to record a pilot/test type […]
Jesse Jackson & Dream Defenders open door for Charlie Crist to seize Civil Rights issues
This past week the Rev. Jesse Jackson brandished Florida “an apartheid state” and attacked Governor Rick Scott for being similar to the southern governors of the 1960s and 1970s who resisted Civil Rights. While Florida most certainly does not resemble apartheid governed pre-1994 South Africa or pre- 1980 (Southern) Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) the state does […]
Zest of the Day: Tampa Bay Rowdies, Trophies and Tradition
My mini-documentary about the Tampa Bay Rowdies, who won the Tampa Bay area’s first professional sports championship in 1975 and won a league title last year in the NASL was released via World Soccer Talk today. The full mini-documentary is below.
Marco Rubio continues reactionary foreign policy views
Marco Rubio has done it again. Yesterday he was one of just ten Republican Senators to vote against the confirmation of Samantha Power as UN ambassador. On the floor Rubio said “she’s being appointed by a president whose foreign policy is fast becoming an utter and absolute failure.” Trust me, I am far from a […]
Zest of the Day: U.S. Senate panel to visit Apalachicola to hear about drought, lack of river flow
From the Florida Current.
Tony Bennett Controversy: Jeb Bush’s Dangerous Education Agenda
With the Tony Bennett news I wanted to write some analysis, but since I am very pressed for time today with other items, here is a piece from the last week of the 2013 session about Jeb Bush’s education agenda from a historical perspective. From May 1, 2013: Jeb Bush left the Governor’s office over […]
The Florida Squeeze 