Monthly Archives: April 2024
The decline and fall of Florida’s film industry
A really good feature from Central Florida Public Media.
Avelo adding Miami service
Avelo Airlines which recently announced new service to Lakeland and which has a growing presence in the Sunshine State will launch Miami flights in June. Beginning June 9, Avelo will fly Orlando-Miami once weekly. This appears to be a repositioning flight from Avelo’s Orlando base to Miami for charter flights to the Caribbean. However, the […]
Jeffersonian Florida – Jim Crow
We look at the era between Reconstruction and the Depression when Florida led the nation in per capita lynchings and state government was inactive except in fostering business.
Biscayne National Park-Convoy Point
Convoy Point is a short walk from the Dante Fascell Visitors Center.
Disney in the 1990’s
On a recent Florida History Podcast, our series on Disney in Florida continued with a look at Walt Disney World in the 1990’s. 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 App Store apps for free which enable you to […]
Podcast: Remembering Bob Graham
In a special joint-Tropical Depression/Florida History Podcast release, Kartik Krishnaiyer and Ryan Ray discuss the great Bob Graham who passed away last week at 87. 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 App Store apps for free which enable […]
Breeze Airways opens Fort Myers base
From a company press release: Breeze Airways, the U.S.’ only NLCC, or ‘Nice Low Cost Carrier,’ announced today that Fort Myers’ Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW) will become the airline’s ninth base of operations nationally and third in Florida, starting October 1. Breeze’s first flight from Fort Myers was in June, 2022 and, since then, […]
Polling indicates abortion issue a problem for Florida GOP – and comparisons with reactions to slavery
Florida Republicans have long been extremists on the abortion issue. Even in the 1990’s as the GOP had several pro-choice legislators in and around leadership, the party’s grassroots began pushing the party harder and harder to the right. Ron DeSantis after being one of the nation’s most popular Governor’s and winning reelection by a landslide […]
Encore: Jimmy Buffett and Bob Graham
We lost both Jimmy Buffett and Bob Graham in the last several months, so we’re re-running a piece I wrote when Buffett passed last September. Jimmy Buffett’s passing on Friday is symbolic of the Florida we once had and have now lost. Buffett was the greatest symbol of the unique Florida culture we had created […]
The Florida Squeeze 