Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
Holiday Book Recommendation: Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture
This campaign cycle and the 24-hour cable news channel combined with Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, could be the tipping point of the political press being poisoned? Or is it just part of the evolution toward a completely scandal-driven, personality-based brand of political reporting? Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal […]
Podcast: Florida and the Beatles
MSNBC contributor Fernand Amandi joins Kartik Krishnaiyer to discuss the surprisingly extensive links between the Beatles and the State of Florida. Outside the United Kingdom and perhaps India, it can be argued Florida contributed more to the Beatles story than any other place on the planet. You can listen to the Florida History Podcast on Anchor (which […]
Florida Holiday Book Recommendation: Last Train to Paradise
Les Standiford’s Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean is a definitive history of the railroad told by a fiction writer. This gives the narrative perhaps more color and flow than some boring histories written by historians and political writers. The decision to build a […]
JFK tribute to George Smathers in 1962
In our continuing look at George Smathers life and career, we feature a speech from President Kennedy in 1962 honoring Senator Smathers in Miami Beach.
Can Florida Democrats afford to nominate Nikki Fried?
Commissioner of Agriculture, Democrat Nikki Fried was back in the news this week for the wrong reasons. As a result of one of the many unforced errors related to Fried we have previously discussed on this site, the Commissioner was reprimanded by the bipartisan ethics commission this week. It’s increasingly obvious Fried, despite some snappy […]
This week’s Florida commercial aviation news
Frontier will cut in February, nonstop service to five cities from Miami – Albany, Buffalo, Portland (ME), Newburgh/Hudson Valley and Rochester, NY. As we reported last week, all five cities will be served from Fort Lauderdale on the carrier beginning in February. So this is a shift of flights from one airport to another. Allegiant […]
Podcast: Governor William Moseley and “Let us Alone”
On this week’s Florida History Podcast we discuss Governor William Moseley. Current Florida Governor Ron DeSantis embraced the motto “Let Us Alone” in introducing his new Florida Guard idea. On this edition of The Florida History Podcast, Robert Buccellato and Kartik Krishnaiyer discuss Democratic Governor William Dunn Moseley who originated the motto and used it […]
Miami v Fort Lauderdale has become Miami and Fort Lauderdale
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic a general rule permeated the domestic airline industry. You focused South Florida operations on either Miami or Fort Lauderdale and unless you were a US legacy network carrier (American, Delta and United), you generally didn’t serve both. Palm Beach International, a third commercial airport in the region is much smaller […]
Politico: Florida Democrats already pointing fingers about 2022
I am at a point where I think the Democrats failure to understand the demographic changes that were visibly going on in the state from 2014 to 2020 are more the reasons for failure than any issue with party infrastructure, though those remain great. It is pretty galling in hindsight that the warnings we threw […]
Audio discussion on ghost candidate scandal
Brook Hines, Kartik Krishnaiyer and Ryan Ray discuss the ramifications and implications of what The Orlando Sentinel has uncovered in the ghost candidate scandal. We go beyond the discussion of just the three impacted State Senate races and the 2020 cycle to dive into the larger implications of what has been uncovered. The panel discusses […]
The Florida Squeeze 