Monthly Archives: January 2025
What is going to happen to Silver Airways?
Silver Airlines which is the only airline offering intra-Florida services that aren’t specifically tied to a hub (Southwest flights from Orlando, American flights from Miami and Spirit flights from Fort Lauderdale are run in order to feed connections not to carry origin & destination passengers from those cities to other Florida ones) has filed for […]
Trump provocations toward Panama and Canada. Impacts on Florida?
Donald Trump was elected to fix the border and lower the price of gas and eggs (the price of gas actually doesn’t impact me as I own an electric vehicle). However, he’s now wandered into the space of naked manifest destiny-styled imperialism despite convincing most of us he was an anti-war isolationist (I’m not fond […]
Book Review: A surprisingly revealing book about Woodrow Wilson from a Conservative titan
Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated for a return to the White House in eleven days. Trump, who has never won a majority of the popular vote (yes, he won a plurality in 2024) joins Bill Clinton and Woodrow Wilson as two US Presidents with that “honor” if you will. Ironically enough, a masterful biography […]
Florida History Podcast on Buddy MacKay’s legacy
This edition of The Florida History Podcast focuses on Buddy MacKay who passed away last week at 91. 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 […]
Special TFS Video: The legacy of Buddy MacKay
A tribute to one of the greatest Floridians of the last 50 years.
Avianca beginning Tampa service and growing Miami and Fort Lauderdale
Avianca Airlines, one of the biggest Latin American carriers will expand Florida service inaugurating flights to Tampa in March with nonstops to Bogotá. The carrier will increase its service as well to both Miami and Fort Lauderdale- FLL gets new flights to Medellín and Managua, a route recently dropped by bankrupt Spirit Airlines while MIA […]
Buddy MacKay – a giant in Florida’s modern history
Buddy MacKay who passed away Yesterday at 91, is one of the most influential and underrated figures in Florida’s development from backwater to thriving mega-state. His impact has been under-appreciated by Democrats many of whom undercut his Gubernatorial campaign in 1998 in an attempt to selfishly preserve individual political influence both within a post Chiles/MacKay […]
How did the Slave Trade contribute to the US invasion of East Florida in 1812?
An excerpt from my new book which has been released today in Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover formats It’s also worth noting that since the US banned the importation of new slaves in 1808, Ameila Island had become a critical cog in the smugglers network to bring new slaves from Africa or the West Indies into […]
The Florida Squeeze 