Monthly Archives: May 2017
Norwegian increasing flights between Florida and London this winter among other service increases
Travel to the US might be feeling a “Trump slump” but fast-growing Norwegian Air Shuttle who has become a major transatlantic player in recent years. Today the airline announced many new routes and also loaded additional flights from Fort Lauderdale and Orlando to London this winter. Norwegian will now serve London-Gatwick 4 times a week […]
Can Democrats make a reasonable play at cutting western panhandle margins?
Recently Florida Democratic Party (FDP) officials led by President Sally Boynton Brown and Chairman Stephen Bittel made a long overdue visit to the western Panhandle, a vote rich area especially when compared to the areas east of the Apalachicola River (excepting Leon County of course) that previous regimes in the FDP have seemingly been obsessive […]
Excellent Florida county tree map of 2016 presidential election results
This graphic is self-explanatory but recently got uploaded to Wikipedia and is shared here under a Creative Commons license. As the tree map demonstrates while the Democrats carried with varying margins the largest counties in the state, the vast majority of medium sized ones went to Trump – many of which the Democrats didn’t even […]
Memorial Day – We beat fascism once. Time to beat it again at home and abroad
Today we honor those who have fallen in the name of preserving our way of life. This includes but is not limited to the greatest generation that kept us safe – those who fought and destroyed fascism in the 1930’s beginning with those who volunteered against future right-wing US ally the fascist Franco in the […]
Spirit Airlines CEO addresses customer service
In the last few months on this site we’ve discussed the efforts of Ultra-Low Cost Carrier (ULCC) Spirit Airlines, based in the Fort Lauderdale area to change its image. Fliers in 17 countries throughout the Americas choose Spirit more for low fares than for service but the reputation of the carrier was so poor in […]
2018 House and Senate legislative race ratings
Beginning next month we will periodically be crunching data and rating each of the races for State Legislature in 2017 and 2018 – beginning with this summer’s special elections. The categories we will be using are: Safe Republican Likely Republican Leans Republican Toss Up Leans Democratic Likely Democratic Safe Democratic Democrats are bullish that the […]
Frontier adding Orlando-Providence and Islip flights
Frontier Airlines, an Ultra-low cost carrier (ULCC) announced this past week it will begin flights from Orlando to two new destinations – Islip, NY and Providence. Both routes are currently flown by Southwest Airlines, who Frontier is competing hard against in Orlando, Las Vegas, Denver and other points. Frontier’s business model is similar to Spirit […]
Orlando Pride takes on Sky Blue this weekend
Gaining a point in Seattle was a pleasant result for the Pride, Coach Tom Sermanni stated, “Delighted to come away with a point, over there is a very difficult place to go and play… they rarely give away points, and generally score a lot of goals” when interviewed on Orlando Pride Today. Orlando Pride has […]
Palm Beach Democratic activists lodge complaint about Wexler/Turkey link
The names of those who have signed this letter about former Congressman Robert Wexler’s new lobbying relationship with the Turkish Government headed by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have been withheld in order to protect the anonymity of those who privately have expressed concerns. The letter was released to The Florida Squeeze under that condition. The content […]
Flashback Friday: 1968 US Senate Race
In 1968, Alabama’s Democratic former Governor George Wallace who had become a national figure with his “stand in the schoolhouse door” ran for President on the ticket of the “American Independent Party.” The candidacy despite coded words like “crime,” “law breakers,” and “patriotism” was about one thing- race. Wallace had been a populist earlier in […]
The Florida Squeeze 