Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
Flashback Friday: Made in Miami, Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali passed away last week. Without droning on endlessly as all of us could about him, I wanted to share some links about Ali’s time in Florida. Miami Herald’s Greg Cote on Ali http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/greg-cote/article1960724.html February 1964 – Ali meets in the Beatles on Miami Beach The Fab Four met Muhammad Ali on Miami Beach […]
Darren Soto, oil interests and Duke Energy during rate hike crisis
This past week Senator Darren Soto called on the the National Parks Service to reject oil exploration in Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve, citing the danger it posed to Florida’s environment and likening the threat it poses to the ongoing impact of the disastrous BP oil spill. On this Soto is spot on – but as […]
EuroCopa Pod: USA 0-2 Colombia
You may have noted that the number of posts on this site have dropped off in recent weeks. Unfortunately for TFS, I’ve been busy with covering the Copa America Centenario tournament which is taking place across the USA this month and the Euro 2016 tournament in France which begins Friday. World Soccer Talk has a […]
Flashback Friday: 1967 Jacksonville Expressway System
The Jacksonville Expressway system was the first in Florida. Below are images from a 1967 Jacksonville expressway system map of mine.
Movie Review: All the Way (With LBJ?)
HBO’s new All The Way film which premiered last week is a look at one of the most important periods of Presidential leadership – the first year of Lyndon Johnson’s time in the White House and his complicated relationships with Martin Luther King Jr., Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell, J. Edgar Hoover and his wife Lady Bird […]
Florida voter rolls during reconstruction
Every now and then especially on Holiday weekends I explore through Florida Memory, the outstanding site from the Division of Library & Information Services. This weekend I came across this gem from the Reconstruction era – The voter roles for the state from 1867. The Fifteenth Amendment had yet to be ratified but Republican-led reconstruction […]
Did contributions from John Kirtley influence school “choice” votes by Darren Soto?
Over the last few years, we at TFS have repeatedly cited John Kirtley, a Tampa venture capitalist and the force behind the national pro-voucher group “All Children Matter” as a malign force that was able to use campaign contributions to possibly influence the thoughts of many Democrats on the school “choice” issue. In 2012, Kirtley […]
Flashback Friday: The Tallahassee bus boycott 60 years on
Sixty years ago this week, two FAMU students sat down in the designated whites only area of a City of Tallahassee bus. Carrie Patterson and Wilhelmina Jakes sat in the whites only section of a city bus on May 26, 1956 and were arrested for “attempting to incite a riot.” The previous year Rosa Parks heroic […]
NPR: Rising seas push too much salt into the Florida Everglades
Rising seas are pushing too much salt into the Everglades, NPR reports. No doubt Governor Rick Scott will either ignore this increased threat to Florida’s clean drinking water supply and the ecosystem in general or label it a “hoax” prohibiting state officials both elected and unelected whose job it is to safeguard this state from doing […]
Despite environmental rhetoric Darren Soto loaded with sugar contributions
The Everglades ecosystem and its preservation is a a life or death matter for those living south of Shingle Creek. Last year the Audubon Society awarded Senator Darren Soto the “Champion of the Everglades.” While elements of Soto’s record are admirable from an environmental perspective such as his filing of anti-fracking legislation like so many […]
The Florida Squeeze 