Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
Politics and the Growth/Fall of Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) in Florida
Today we debut a non-political feature looking at the history of some aspect of Florida’s rich cultural and economic history. Ironically however, this feature has more politics than many of the planned articles do. We start with a favorite subject of mine- aviation, though I will save my preferred history of Eastern Airlines for another […]
Zest of the Day – PolitiFact: Florida lawmakers yielded authority to negotiate rates under Obamacare
PolitiFact has ruled “true” the allegation by Congressman Ted Deutch that the Florida Legislature ceded its ability to “negotiate lower rates with companies or refuse rates that are too high.” Here is the entire ruling with analysis from PolitFact. This represents another black eye for Florida’s Legislature run by Republicans for the last 17 years but […]
Zest of the Day: The Political Hurricane on Allison Tant and the FDP with TFS Analysis
As almost everyone who reads this site likely knows, I do not always agree with Dave Trotter. We have had some differences of opinion over the past many years, but I must admit the infographic sent out by the Florida Democratic Party this morning was odd to say the least. Mr. Trotter states a point […]
Throwback Tuesday: Remembering Air Florida
Air Florida is today remembered for one thing- the tragic Potomac River crash in January 1982 that killed 78 people both on the plane and on the 14th Street Bridge which the aircraft crashed into shortly after taking off from Washington National Airport. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Florida had its own international […]
Zest of the Day: House Speaker Will Weatherford connected to Citizens contractor
Excellent Tampa Bay Times piece. which raises many questions.
The Florida Squeeze Podcast – Episode 1
Kartik Krishnaiyer, Justin Snyder and Nick Steffens recorded the first Florida Squeeze Podcast late Sunday. The program embedded below discusses the Dream Defenders, Rick Scott’s handling of the Martin verdict and some of economic issues impacting Florida. This pod may be somewhat rough around the edges as our intent was to record a pilot/test type […]
Jesse Jackson & Dream Defenders open door for Charlie Crist to seize Civil Rights issues
This past week the Rev. Jesse Jackson brandished Florida “an apartheid state” and attacked Governor Rick Scott for being similar to the southern governors of the 1960s and 1970s who resisted Civil Rights. While Florida most certainly does not resemble apartheid governed pre-1994 South Africa or pre- 1980 (Southern) Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) the state does […]
Zest of the Day: Tampa Bay Rowdies, Trophies and Tradition
My mini-documentary about the Tampa Bay Rowdies, who won the Tampa Bay area’s first professional sports championship in 1975 and won a league title last year in the NASL was released via World Soccer Talk today. The full mini-documentary is below.
Marco Rubio continues reactionary foreign policy views
Marco Rubio has done it again. Yesterday he was one of just ten Republican Senators to vote against the confirmation of Samantha Power as UN ambassador. On the floor Rubio said “she’s being appointed by a president whose foreign policy is fast becoming an utter and absolute failure.” Trust me, I am far from a […]
Zest of the Day: U.S. Senate panel to visit Apalachicola to hear about drought, lack of river flow
From the Florida Current.
The Florida Squeeze 