Monthly Archives: December 2021
Can Florida Democrats afford to nominate Nikki Fried?
Commissioner of Agriculture, Democrat Nikki Fried was back in the news this week for the wrong reasons. As a result of one of the many unforced errors related to Fried we have previously discussed on this site, the Commissioner was reprimanded by the bipartisan ethics commission this week. It’s increasingly obvious Fried, despite some snappy […]
This week’s Florida commercial aviation news
Frontier will cut in February, nonstop service to five cities from Miami – Albany, Buffalo, Portland (ME), Newburgh/Hudson Valley and Rochester, NY. As we reported last week, all five cities will be served from Fort Lauderdale on the carrier beginning in February. So this is a shift of flights from one airport to another. Allegiant […]
Podcast: Governor William Moseley and “Let us Alone”
On this week’s Florida History Podcast we discuss Governor William Moseley. Current Florida Governor Ron DeSantis embraced the motto “Let Us Alone” in introducing his new Florida Guard idea. On this edition of The Florida History Podcast, Robert Buccellato and Kartik Krishnaiyer discuss Democratic Governor William Dunn Moseley who originated the motto and used it […]
Miami v Fort Lauderdale has become Miami and Fort Lauderdale
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic a general rule permeated the domestic airline industry. You focused South Florida operations on either Miami or Fort Lauderdale and unless you were a US legacy network carrier (American, Delta and United), you generally didn’t serve both. Palm Beach International, a third commercial airport in the region is much smaller […]
Politico: Florida Democrats already pointing fingers about 2022
I am at a point where I think the Democrats failure to understand the demographic changes that were visibly going on in the state from 2014 to 2020 are more the reasons for failure than any issue with party infrastructure, though those remain great. It is pretty galling in hindsight that the warnings we threw […]
Audio discussion on ghost candidate scandal
Brook Hines, Kartik Krishnaiyer and Ryan Ray discuss the ramifications and implications of what The Orlando Sentinel has uncovered in the ghost candidate scandal. We go beyond the discussion of just the three impacted State Senate races and the 2020 cycle to dive into the larger implications of what has been uncovered. The panel discusses […]
The Ghost Candidate State Senate scandal
We haven’t written about the ghost candidate State Senate scandal on these pages as of yet because we have wanted to get all of the information and process it before moving forward with analysis. Unfortunately that took a year, but thanks to The Orlando Sentinel’s outstanding reporting, all the pieces are now there for us […]
Governor DeSantis and the 1845 Moseley flag
I appreciate in a way probably unique to most folks in this state that we have an actual Floridian as Governor, after suffering through eight years of a retired Health Care executive from somewhere else masquerading as a Governor. The previous Governor pretended he knew something about our state, but more often than not showed […]
United adds summer panhandle-Denver service and this week’s other Florida airline news
United Airlines will fly nonstop from Denver to Pensacola and Destin/Fort Walton beach this summer. The route were previously only flown around Spring Break. I am also told Panama City might get similar summer treatment from Denver, but that was not announced. Demand for beach destinations in Florida are rising as pent-up demand drives a […]
The GOP and Conservative media’s Dr. Fauci obsession is just diabolical
The right-wing media and GOP love nothing more than having a strawman to beat up on as they frame elections as a battle between “real Americans,” and fear of the other. Dr. Anthony Fauci is the latest in a long-line of right-wing bogeymen, but has a unique career path compared to the most recent prior […]
The Florida Squeeze 