Monthly Archives: July 2024
A full list of JetBlue 2024 cuts – Florida hit particularly hard
This is from an investor presentation I was given access to. As noted on Monday, JetBlue’s cuts in Florida have been particularly deep.
Civil War: Garland’s gamble
It’s most powerful when there is no live sound or it goes completely silent. In the opening scene a suicide bomber runs into a crowd and detonates. It’s not surprising, as our main character is a war correspondent. What is jarring is that the suicide bomber is American and is running into a crowd of […]
Avelo launches Lakeland base, JetBlue continues to shrink, Frontier and Southwest make big cuts in crazy aviation week for Florida
If you think US politics was the only thing crazy the last week, let’s jump into something equally volatile – aviation news in Florida. First the good news – as first reported here earlier in the year, Avelo has FINALLY opened it’s Lakeland base! Hooray! In addition to the current service from Lakeland to New […]
Trumpnomics – The end of the America as we know it?
Many leading Democrats love to obsesses about President Trump being a “racist” (something I push back on ) misogynistic behaviour (100% accurate) and a threat to democracy (I agree with this critique as well) while seemingly being disinterested in the actual public policy Trump advocates. I will concede much of this has to do with […]
Delaware Scrub look at Loxahatchee River South Fork
Delaware Scrub Loxahatchee River South Fork vista
Kamala Harris and Indian Diaspora in the Dem Party and Western World
Kartik Krishnaiyer describes why he’s supporting Kamala Harris for president even though in general he has hesitations about voting for most candidates of Indian descent because of the illiberal, anti-western and classism-styled attitudes prevalent in India as well as within large portions of the Indian diaspora in the west. He also discusses India’s alleged attempts […]
Have the Democrats become the party of the Managerial Class? Is this why the GOP are suddenly populists?
Populism doesn’t just “happen.” Populism throughout US History has been a counter-reaction to something that has impacted the working class negatively. William Jennings Bryan’s emergence in the 1896 Democratic Convention came after Grover Cleveland’s “Bourbon Democrats” had very clearly favored the monied interests of the budding Gilded Age over that of the people. The progressive […]
Great Miami Hurricane of 1926
Really good video on an event that helped usher in the Great Depression.
Abiaka/Sam Jones
On this edition of the Florida History Podcast we discuss Abiaka/Sam Jones, the great native war chief. 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 subscribe and listen on your iPhone […]
The Florida Squeeze 