Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
Flashback Friday: Hurricane Betsy 50 years ago
In 1965 this past week, southern Florida was ravaged by Hurricane Betsy’s landfall. The Category 3 storm did a number on south Florida. Here is a look back at the storm from Wikipedia: Beginning on September 7, intermittent squalls associated with Betsy’s outer rainbands began affecting the coast, producing gusts in excess of 60 mph […]
Governor Scott and the nullification of federal policy regarding Iran
Governor Rick Scott continues to stick his nose in places where it does not belong. Under reactionary right-wing leadership the state of Florida has attempted to develop an alternative foreign policy in some areas to that which is undertaken by the United States Government. Be it on issues of Cuba, Sudan, Iran or other matters, […]
Jeb Bush TV Ad borderline laughable
Jeb Bush’s new TV ad was rolled out today and from a Florida perspective it is laughable. Bush starts the ad taking a shot at self-promoters a clear shot at Donald Trump. However, Bush has been perhaps the most consistently shameless self-promoter in politics nationally over the last twenty years with the exception of President […]
FDOT begins construction work on Florida’s first Diverging Diamond Interchange
Last week ground was broken on Florida’s first Diverging Diamond Interchange (DDI) on the Sarasota/Manatee county line. The interchange between I-75 and University Parkway (Exit 213 for those of us that drive up and down I-75 between the Tampa Bay area and South Florida regularly as I do) will be the first in the state to […]
Democrats in Broward failing the eye test at “grassroots” efforts
This Labor Day Weekend political leaders from around Broward County gathered at the annual labor ball. While organized labor is supposed to represent the common working women and men, the labor ball seems to represent each and every year a political shindig that only elites and those connected to powerful interests, usually within the Democratic […]
Flashback Friday: 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, “Murder at Matecumbe”
The National Hurricane Center last year reclassified the 1935 Keys Labor Day Storm, one of the greatest tragedies in Florida’s History as the strongest storm to ever hit the US mainland. This week we commemorated the 80th Anniversary of the horrible event. One of the great tragedies of the Labor Day storm was the death of […]
Miami New Times – MUST READ story on SoFla angle to FIFA case
Miami New Times Reporter Tim Elfrink has penned an article any writer would be proud of. It’s a must read even if you don’t like soccer. It has all the elements to it of a thrilling short story.
Patrick Murphy deserves praise for courageous decision on Iran
Monday afternoon was littered for me with discussion of the lawsuit my former employer the North American Soccer League (NASL) has contemplated filing against our governing body US Soccer which it accuses of being in collusion with Major League Soccer (MLS). So an important event slipped by me. Congressman Patrick Murphy, the front-runner for the […]
Media’s alarmist tone on tropical weather a disservice to Floridians
I was ridiculed on Twitter for much of the week for claiming tropical system Erika had a better than even chance of not making it to Florida. I based this on years of experience viewing weak Tropical Storms or Tropical Depressions in Caribbean and previously myself being alarmed by the threat to Florida such storms […]
Flashback Friday: Hurricane Erin
This month, twenty years ago the Treasure and Space Coasts were threatened by a storm out in the Atlantic. Erin represented the first post-Andrew panic on Florida’s East Coast and then hit the Panhandle just months before the much more powerful and destructive Opal. I had come down to Jupiter for the Florida Young Democrats […]
The Florida Squeeze 