Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
American relaunching secondary Cuban cities and other aviation news
Thanks to the Biden Administrations decision to allow service once against from the USA to secondary Cuban cities, American will relaunch a number of Miami-Cuba flights, to five secondary cities (Camaguey, Holguín, Santa Cruz, Santiago de Cuba and Varadero). No word yet if operationally strapped jetBlue who operated many of the same routes from Fort […]
Grassy Waters- West Palm Beach’s natural treasure
Below we have two videos from Grassy Waters Preserve, which is a natural area maintained by the City of West Palm Beach. It’s among the best urban natural areas you will find anywhere.
Fareed Zakaria on DeSantis latest fundraising email and what Democrats should do about it
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria has a warning for Democrats after getting a fundraising email from Ron DeSantis. This dovetails pretty well with some recent focus groups I have listened to analysis of – DeSantis ability to define Democrats by the most outlandish takes on cultural issues IS UNFORTUNATELY STICKING.
FiveThirtyEight on the extreme DeSantis gerrymander
This is a good video that makes a lot of the points we’ve made time and again on these pages.
Pelican Island – three videos from the nation’s oldest National Wildlife Refuge
Pelican Island NWR in Indian River County, was designated as the first National Wildlife Refuge in the country, in 1903 by President Theodore Roosevelt. In the following video’s we take a tour of internal areas of Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge and discuss the history of the protected areas in the Indian River Lagoon. Here […]
CBS News breaks down Ron DeSantis potential 2024 run
CBS News’ Robert Costa anchors a discussion on Ron DeSantis.
Analysis of Governor DeSantis’ historic tax increase
An analysis released this week from Jason Garcia indicates consumers have borne the brunt of Governor Ron DeSantis fiscal policies . DeSantis, whose governance has revolved around crushing local government and private businesses who don’t play ball with him, has also financed massive tax cuts for businesses by burdening consumers. What’s ironic is DeSantis, like […]
The Ancient Spanish Monastery – Miami’s medieval attraction
On a previous Florida History Podcast, we have a short episode as we discuss the Ancient Spanish Monastery in North Miami Beach, the oldest European-built structure in the United States. Below is a short video about it as well. A truly unique attraction.
Fort King – Ocala’s Seminole War fort
On this week’s Florida History Podcast we discuss Fort King, an important Seminole War fort in Ocala. We also have released a video of Fort King which is embedded below. 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 […]
Boris Johnson: The most damaging western leader since World War II – lessons for the US
PREFACE: Please understand I am not saying Boris Johnson is a worse human than Donald Trump per se. I am saying given the paranoid nature of American politics, that tolerates high levels of corruption and anti-intellectualism, Donald Trump was a logical culmination of 50 years of American descent. Boris Johnson on the other hand is […]
The Florida Squeeze 