Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
India and Pakistan at 70 – Looking back and looking ahead
Let me take a point of personal privilege today – we’ll be turning The Florida Squeeze into the “Subcontinent Squeeze,” today as we commemorate 70 years since India and Pakistan were given independence from Britain. The Indian subcontinent is the mother of all civilization. The human race descended from South India after migrations from Africa […]
Azul adds more Florida-Brazil service: New flights from Orlando and Fort Lauderdale
Azul, an award-winning Brazilian airline, announced on Friday an expansion to the United States with new flights from Belo Horizonte to Orlando, and from Belem to Fort Lauderdale. The new flights will begin in December 2017. “I am very pleased to announce new international service from Brazil to the US,” said the airline’s Chairman, David […]
Must read: Washington Post on what happens if a Katrina-like storm hits the Tampa Bay area
A must read – The Washington Post has analyzed what happens if the Tampa Bay area, the luckiest part of the southeast which is now going on a 100 years since direct strike from a Hurricane got hit by a storm the size and scope of Katrina (When we refer to Katrina, we refer to […]
Flashback Friday: October 1966 to August 1992 – the complacency that led to the calm before the storm (part one of a month-long series)
Editors Note: This is the first in a series of articles on TFS about Hurricane Andrew. Before, during, after… A sense of complacency. A sense of invincibility. A sense of invulnerability. A sense of arrogance. That was southeast Florida in the 1980’s. The 1980’s were heady times in southeast Florida. Miami benefited from the drug […]
India and China headed toward possible war: Why India cannot back down
In the Trump obsession that has defined American politics across the spectrum for the last 26 months, it has been hardly noticed on our TV news that the world’s two most populated nations are coming closer to war. For a full update on what is at stake and the basis of the current dispute here […]
Delta to begin Orlando-Amsterdam service
Delta Airlines has loaded new nonstop service between Orlando and Amsterdam into its reservation service. The new nonstop flights will begin in March 2018. The flight will link to the vast hub Delta maintains with joint venture partner KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and code-share partner Jet Airways of India. The new flight will give Orlando […]
Explore the beautiful Indian River Lagoon Scenic Byway
I stumbled upon a great YouTube video touring the Indian River Lagoon Scenic Byway, a Florida Scenic Highway. The areas around the Indian River Lagoon remain among the most unspoiled coastal areas on the Florida peninsula. Check out the YouTube and for those of in central Florida take this drive soon!
Mario Noriega charting course in south Florida soccer despite Fort Lauderdale Strikers purchase falling through
Mario Noriega, a south Florida entrepreneur is one of the newest big players in the world of local soccer. whose keen interest in local Broward and Miami-Dade County soccer led him to make two attempts earlier this year to purchase the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. Noriega’s first attempt in conjunction with existing owner Paulo Cesso was […]
Flashback Friday: Medicare and Medicaid – the votes in 1965
As large elements in the GOP try to turn back the clock on health care in this country, let’s remember 1965 and the passage of Medicare and Medicaid. Many ideological conservatives opposed the effort first begun by Harry Truman and completed by Lyndon Johnson to provide essential healthcare to seniors and the poor. President Johnson […]
Putnam’s rightward lurch is smart politics and natural to him
Florida political insiders seem to be aghast at Adam Putnam’s shift to the right. Whether it’s touting gun rights or attacking CNN as “fake news,” Putnam has more certainly attempted to re-position himself in the last few weeks. Given the rightward lurch of the GOP first in 2008 when Mike Pence replaced Putnam in the […]
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