Monthly Archives: June 2024
From FAU: Tamiami Trail Modifications – restoring freshwater flow to the Everglades
The Tamiami Trail is the historic roadway connecting Tampa to Miami. While the roadway made traveling between the two cities faster and safer, it created a barrier to water flow going into Everglades National Park. Over the past few decades, efforts have been underway to make modifications to the Tamiami Trail. When all of the […]
Why RFK’s poll numbers are basically bull****
Polling firms have been conducting nationwide polls with RFK Jr, Cornell West, and Jill Stein’s names. But these candidates are not even on a majority of state ballots. Read more at Voting Trend.
Democrats name Florida leadership team for 2024- but why?
Florida has gone from a plus 200,000 Democratic voter advantage over the GOP to minus close to 1,000,000 voters since the book closing for the 2020 election. Given Donald Trump won Florida by 3.5% in 2020, if turnout remained the same among both parties voters and the NPA split remained the same (which I personally […]
Achievements in Everglades Restoration
This briefing late last year discussed all of the progress that has been made.
Medicare for All is the Democrats’ winning issue, but they aren’t using it.
A recent paper from two Columbia University political scientists indicates that Democrats are missing the boat on Medicare for All. Read more at Voting Trend
Florida State Senate ratings
Items that are focused on Florida will be posted on Voting Trend: Florida from this point forward. If you are only interested in Florida information, please sign up for this newsletter. Otherwise, you can stay on the main Voting Trend Substack. Here is the updated map for the Florida Senate projections. If you would like a link […]
US win T20 Cricket World Cup opener
The U.S.A. celebrated the arrival of World Cup cricket coming to the country for the first time with a thrilling victory over Canada in the opening match of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 on night of June 1. Batter Aaron Jones of USA lit up the opening night, smashing a record 10 sixes […]
How the US Government broke the Everglades
This is a really instructive and telling video. A great primer on the challenges the Everglades faces.
The Mexican and UK Elections
Podcast here. Dave Trotter talks about the upcoming elections in Mexico, which are happening on June 2nd. At stake is the survival of two of Mexico’s institutional parties, The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the National Action Party (PAN). Also, Dave is joined by Kartik Krishnaiyer to talk about the upcoming general election in the […]
The Florida Squeeze 