Monthly Archives: June 2017
Allegiant Airlines adds 14 new Florida routes
Allegiant Airlines announced the addition of several no routes to/from the state of Florida today. Flights begin on various dates in the fall and winter months of 2017. New routes are listed below: Fort Lauderdale: Milwaukee, Norfolk/Virginia Beach Punta Gorda: Flint, Newburgh, Rochester, St. Cloud Sanford: Gulfport/Biloxi, Milwaukee, Newburgh, Norfolk/Virginia Beach St Petersburg/Clearwater: Norfolk/ Virginia […]
Fort Lauderdale Strikers begin new chapter with Bill Edwards acquisition
It’s all over other than the shouting and crying (for now). This morning in Pinellas Circuit Court, Tampa Bay Rowdies owner Bill Edwards gained control of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers name. What does this mean for the future of a club that is currently on hiatus? It is important to note Edwards summary judgement victory […]
Wettest June in memory might get even wetter – the time to think about Hurricane Season is now
Florida’s decade-long run of avoiding direct hits from Hurricanes ended last summer when Hurricane Hermine hit the Big Bend area dumping rain and damaging winds throughout the region. Hurricane Matthew didn’t hit the state but hugged the coast and did deliver Hurricane force winds in Brevard, Volusia, Flager, St John’s and Duval counties. Having woken […]
The simple decision Democrats must make in order to win again
A few weeks ago the new president of the Florida Democratic Party, Sally Boynton Brown, caught some flak when she told a group of progressives that changes in store for the party include messaging that makes a conscious appeal to emotion, and rigorous script testing, likely through soft polling and focus groups. The problem as […]
Flashback Friday: The Civil Rights Act of 1960
The Civil Rights Act of 1960, Lyndon Johnson’s late attempt to try and win over northern liberals in his Presidential quest has been long forgotten. LBJ has shepherded through the Civil Rights Act of 1957 the first major piece of anti-discrimination legislation passed since 1875 – but one that had been severely gutted in its […]
The Trump/Rubio Cuba policy – damaging to business mixed with utter hypocrisy
President Donald Trump quite possibly at the behest of Florida’s Junior Senator Marco Rubio and other neoconservatives has scaled back President Obama’s breakthrough with Cuba today. According to a leaked memo obtained by Politico, Trump is returning the US partially to a sanctions and travel regime that failed so miserably between 1961 and 2014 to […]
A message from Kartik Krishnaiyer on Florida Democrats and this site’s future direction
When The Florida Squeeze began publication in early 2013 the guiding mission was to give a progressive perspective on politics and other happenings here in Florida. The concept was to create a site that doesn’t engage in personality conflicts related to a party that is on a two-decade losing streak but to critically point out […]
Message from the editorial board of The Florida Squeeze
A column published earlier today on the Florida Squeeze, referencing activist Leslie Wimes, has been withdrawn for failure to meet editorial standards. The piece is being evaluated by our team currently and has been removed from the site. Although the tone of the piece was intended to be facetious and is based on what many […]
Donald Trump now Marco Rubio’s puppet on Cuba – the hypocrisy of Florida’s Junior Senator
Donald Trump, despite his populist reputation has gradually adopted the neoconservative foreign policy of Florida’s Junior Senator Marco Rubio. Rubio is an unreconstructed neoconservative that has never met a military intervention that he didn’t embrace, even if it isn’t in our national security interests. He has never missed an opportunity to undermine our current administration’s […]
The Phlip Side: Lessons from 2016
Election night 2016 was incredibly painful for everyone who fought tooth and nail to defeat Donald Trump. The only thing saving me from still sucking my thumb from the fetal position is the fact that Florida’s 29 electoral votes weren’t decisive. We are reminded of the pain from last November every time an outrageous statement […]
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