Monthly Archives: December 2023
Fort Taylor overview
On this past week’s Florida History Podcast we discussed Fort Taylor in Key West as a precursor to our interview with Dr Angela Zombek about the Civil War at Fort Taylor . You can listen to the Florida History Podcast on Anchor (which hosts our show), Spotify, Google, Apple Podcasts, Radio Public, Breaker, Overcast, Castro or Pocket Casts. Overcast, Castro, Spotify, Radio Public and Breaker have […]
If you want a left domestic agenda, you must confront foreign policy reactionaries
During the Cold War , unions understood they had to be on the front lines of the fight against communism, because otherwise a left economic agenda could be easily undermined. The anti-communism of the union movement allowed the Democrats to pursue left-leaning economic goals and empowerment legislation without being labeled by the general public as […]
Fort George Island
Duval County’s Fort George Island Cultural State Park adjoins the Timucan National Ecological Preserve
Okeeheelee Nature Center – Wooded Areas
The Nature Center at Okeeheelee Park in Palm Beach County is fairly well hidden in the larger complex but is quite a gem.
Crossing Shingle Creek at Steffee Landing
Crossing Shingle Creek between Steffee Landing and the old homestead site.
New southeast Florida light/commuter rail proposals coming to the forefront
This week, both on Monday and Wednesday, the Florida DOT held public meetings on the proposed Broward County Rail system. Below is the proposed system map. The system would initially run from Aventura to Fort Lauderdale but NOT yet cross the New River as either a new bridge or tunnel would need to be built […]
Florida State wins fourth soccer national title in ten years – the impact on Florida soccer
Florida State beat Stanford 5-1 in Cary, NC on Monday night, to win a championship capping an unbeaten season. It is Florida State’s 4th title in 10 seasons (and I’d argue two of best FSU teams in that run didn’t win the title) and demonstrated once again FSU not the University of North Carolina (which […]
Good bye and good riddance to the Florida Standard
Ron DeSantis’ favorite “news” site, the pay-to-play Florida Standard is going bye-bye per reports on Twitter. This news was originally reported by Javier Manajerras. This would be a big deal normally but sometimes when a tree falls in a forest, no one hears it. Once feared, Governor DeSantis is now becoming increasingly a figure of […]
Resentment of American Colonists toward Florida
This is an excerpt from Florida and The American Revolution In recent years thanks to HBO’s wonderful, John Adams miniseries, a revival of interest in John Dickinson who was expertly played by Zeljko Ivanek has occurred. Dickinson opposed the Declaration of Independence as we learn in the miniseries. But before and after July 1776, he […]
Former Allies Ditch America: Realpolitik
As former allies shift allegiances, flows of commerce dissolve and inflation continues, an overview of geopolitics can offer some perspective. A post-Cold War era of globalization and prosperity is being replaced by fragmentation and more fluid alliances. The US, Europe, China, Russia, India and the Middle East represent the commanding heights of the new multipolar […]
The Florida Squeeze 