Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
Miami is emerging as the “new” New York for international media
Miami and the greater South Florida area have long benefited from geography and climate. In recent years, Miami has emerged as a truly global destination and one of the most recognizable American cities abroad. While the area’s reputation isn’t always pristine domestically or even in the state of Florida, internationally the image of the area […]
Thursday Bookshelf – FDR and the birth of modern liberalism
Happy Days Are Here Again: The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence of FDR–and How America Was Changed Forever, The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, and American Experience: FDR Being a Democrat today inevitably leads back to the New Deal and how the party structure in the United States essentially changed at […]
Florida Democrats, approval ratings and the State of the Union
Perhaps this is an all too predictable posting coming from me. But at a time when many Florida Democratic insiders are stating that the party needs to shift to the right in order to achieve electoral success, President Obama has taken a completely different tact. The result has been the highest Presidential approval ratings since early […]
Silver Airways adding more North Florida service
Fort Lauderdale-based Silver Airways announced on Monday it is adding new nonstop service from Pensacola to Jacksonville with same-plane service onward to Silver’s hub in Fort Lauderdale. The airline is also adding new service to Panama City with nonstop service to Orlando and Tampa. Last week, Silver announced new service to St Petersburg/Clearwater from Fort […]
Martin Luther King Jr. and St Augustine – Changing Florida
Editors Note: In commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday being observed today we look back at an article we ran in April 2013 regarding Dr. King and St Augustine. Monday Musings will return next week. Today is the 45th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and this week was the 500th anniversary of […]
Florida Democrats at a Crossroads: Term limits , legislators, party building and office shopping
The advent of term limits helped to change the culture of state legislators in 1990’s. Previously many regardless of ideology worked hard to build a party that competed in elections and had a few guiding principles but was largely a big tent operation. Term limits being implemented coincided with the collapse of the Democratic Party […]
Flashback Friday: FDR takes first ever Presidential flight from Miami
This week in 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt became the first US President to take a plane flight, flying overseas to the wartime Casablanca Conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. FDR flew from Miami’s Dinner Key Airport, then the world’s busiest international airport. Operation Torch, an amphibious invasion of North Africa had just been completed, […]
President Obama, Florida Democrats, Political Operatives and “Moderation”
In the last few weeks I have had some interesting and borderline maniacal conversations with people regarding the future of the Democratic Party in terms of messaging and policy. An almost universal consensus has developed among insiders, particularly those who are involved on the consulting end that the path forward involves moderating the Democratic message […]
Gwen Graham, “The Third Way” and a possible statewide run
Newly elected Congresswoman Gwen Graham is not your average freshman. As the daughter of of a former Florida Governor and US Senator her visibility from the word go was higher than just about any other Democratic Congressional challenger in the nation. Then in a wipe-out year for Democrats on so many levels she became one […]
Silver Airways beginning St Petersburg/Clearwater service
Fort Lauderdale based Silver Airways will begin service to St Petersburg-Clearwater Airport in March. The airline will initially service St Petersburg from Fort Lauderdale and Key West. Also of interest to TFS readers, Silver will per our sources resume nonstop Fort Lauderdale-Tallahassee flights in time for legislative session. This is a major announcement because Silver will […]
The Florida Squeeze 