Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
Latest Let’s Get to Work TV ad turning heads
The latest anti-Charlie Crist TV commercial from the “Let’s Get to Work” Committee is the hardest hitting yet and has conjured up a significant amount of buzz around the state since it began running last week. The premise is that then Governor Charlie Crist “ran away” from the problems the state faced in 2008, 2009 […]
Why Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson should be honored by Democrats in Florida
In the context of modern times and contemporary views, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson would both be viewed as social conservatives. But in many ways they were extremely progressive particularly on economics. Failing to maintain perspective on historical events is one of my great beefs with modern liberalism as I consider myself a progressive yet […]
NY Times: For Florida Grapefruit, One Blow After Another
We’ve seen a number of articles recently on the struggles of Florida’s signature industry, Citrus. However this one might be the most alarming and human of all, from yesterday’s New York Times. It is well worth a read.
Biggest TFS day ever and other pieces of website/socal media news
First off, thanks to our readers for making yesterday the biggest day in TFS history in terms of page views and the second biggest in terms of unique users. The combination of events that took place yesterday and the number of articles on the site from different perspectives helped drive the traffic. We have a […]
Senate Democrats cave on voucher expansion
Fifteen years almost to day since the Florida Senate passed the Jeb Bush pet project A+ plan that brought public funding of private schools into our state, the Senate today passed the largest expansion of vouchers in the state’s history. Unlike the Florida House, where Democrats stuck together despite an aggressive lobbying effort by voucher […]
Guest Column: CD-13 in a nutshell in wake of David Jolly’s win
Editor’s Note: This is the first column we have published under an alias and that is not our regular practice and we will never have staff writers post articles or comments under an alias. But in this case we have made an exception regarding a story and we will for this particular writer in the […]
SINE DIE: The GOP’s Choice (UPDATED 11:15 AM ET)
Despite a national mood that favors the Republicans, Florida’s GOP faces a potential final day in complete control of the legislature today. This is a final opportunity potentially for the Jeb Bush backed education “reformers” to have a clean bite of the apple after beginning the destruction of Florida’s Public School system in Bush’s first […]
Tallahassee under Charlie Crist – Could today’s SINE DIE be the end of a sorry history for our state?
Lenny Curry’s resignation as RPOF Chairman to pursue the Mayor’s seat in Jacksonville currently held by Democrat Alvin Brown is the talk of Florida political circles today. We will have plenty of time to discuss this in coming months, but Curry may simply be getting out ahead of a storm if Charlie Crist is elected […]
Thank you to our readers!
The months of March 2014 and April 2014 have been the most successful in TFS’ history in terms of pageviews and acquiring new followers. Since launching in late February 2013 we have now had over 560,000 pageviews and we also passed the 7,000 follower mark in recent days. On behalf of all our writers we […]
Coral Springs: A Democratic city run by right-wing Republicans
Coral Springs is the 12th largest city in the state with almost 125,000 residents and has a two to one Democratic voter registration advantage. The city last voted for a Republican Presidential candidate in 1988 and has not been represented in the state legislature by a Republican since before the 1982 redistricting. It is simply […]
The Florida Squeeze 