Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
Allegiant Airlines adds 14 new Florida routes
Allegiant Airlines announced the addition of several no routes to/from the state of Florida today. Flights begin on various dates in the fall and winter months of 2017. New routes are listed below: Fort Lauderdale: Milwaukee, Norfolk/Virginia Beach Punta Gorda: Flint, Newburgh, Rochester, St. Cloud Sanford: Gulfport/Biloxi, Milwaukee, Newburgh, Norfolk/Virginia Beach St Petersburg/Clearwater: Norfolk/ Virginia […]
Fort Lauderdale Strikers begin new chapter with Bill Edwards acquisition
It’s all over other than the shouting and crying (for now). This morning in Pinellas Circuit Court, Tampa Bay Rowdies owner Bill Edwards gained control of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers name. What does this mean for the future of a club that is currently on hiatus? It is important to note Edwards summary judgement victory […]
Wettest June in memory might get even wetter – the time to think about Hurricane Season is now
Florida’s decade-long run of avoiding direct hits from Hurricanes ended last summer when Hurricane Hermine hit the Big Bend area dumping rain and damaging winds throughout the region. Hurricane Matthew didn’t hit the state but hugged the coast and did deliver Hurricane force winds in Brevard, Volusia, Flager, St John’s and Duval counties. Having woken […]
Flashback Friday: The Civil Rights Act of 1960
The Civil Rights Act of 1960, Lyndon Johnson’s late attempt to try and win over northern liberals in his Presidential quest has been long forgotten. LBJ has shepherded through the Civil Rights Act of 1957 the first major piece of anti-discrimination legislation passed since 1875 – but one that had been severely gutted in its […]
The Trump/Rubio Cuba policy – damaging to business mixed with utter hypocrisy
President Donald Trump quite possibly at the behest of Florida’s Junior Senator Marco Rubio and other neoconservatives has scaled back President Obama’s breakthrough with Cuba today. According to a leaked memo obtained by Politico, Trump is returning the US partially to a sanctions and travel regime that failed so miserably between 1961 and 2014 to […]
A message from Kartik Krishnaiyer on Florida Democrats and this site’s future direction
When The Florida Squeeze began publication in early 2013 the guiding mission was to give a progressive perspective on politics and other happenings here in Florida. The concept was to create a site that doesn’t engage in personality conflicts related to a party that is on a two-decade losing streak but to critically point out […]
Donald Trump now Marco Rubio’s puppet on Cuba – the hypocrisy of Florida’s Junior Senator
Donald Trump, despite his populist reputation has gradually adopted the neoconservative foreign policy of Florida’s Junior Senator Marco Rubio. Rubio is an unreconstructed neoconservative that has never met a military intervention that he didn’t embrace, even if it isn’t in our national security interests. He has never missed an opportunity to undermine our current administration’s […]
What we are reading: How Florida lobbyist Brian Ballard is turning close ties to Trump into big business
Excellent piece from The Tampa Bay Times Washington-based Bureau Chief, Alex Leary. Ballard Partners has grown into arguably the leading Florida-based firm on state issues thanks to closeness to a lot of Democrats and Republicans in the state but now is taking on the national scene. Notable additions to the firm beyond Congressman Robert Wexler […]
UK Election – a victory for the true left and a defeat for austerity, the media and “moderation”
The third way is dead in Britain. Parties running to the hard-left captured a total of 306 seats in the 650 seat UK House of Commons last night (counting Sinn Fein seats which will not be filled as the party as usual will NOT take their seats in the Commons). The revitalized Labour Party picked […]
The time for Miami Beckham United is now
Four years ago, David Beckham attended a Miami Heat playoff game with future-Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure. Beckham who had just played his final professional soccer match with PSG was looking at cashing in on a provision to own a team. This item was placed in his MLS contact which was signed in January 2007 . […]
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