Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
Gun Control and the Democratic Party Chair’s Race
On February 14, we soberly commemorated the 5th Anniversary of the MSD High School mass murder. Ironically enough this 5th anniversary came just two days after Nikki Fried threw her hat into the race to lead the Florida Democratic Party. Last year, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried sued the Biden Administration about an issue related to […]
Black History Month: Remembering the free blacks who saved Florida in the 18th Century
PODCAST In July 1742, decisive battles between the Spanish and British took place in and around St Simons Island, Georgia. It was the culmination of a conflict which began when the British invaded Florida, partly because of the number of runaway slaves that had come to the Spanish colonies. In the late 1600’s Spain began […]
Breeze, Spirit, El Al, Southwest, Alaska all ramping up Florida service, Norse Atlantic beginning London to Fort Lauderdale and Orlando nonstops
Breeze Airways have announced several new nonstops to/from Florida beginning in May. Spirit will add a fifth daily Orlando-San Juan nonstop and a second daily Fort Lauderdale-San Juan nonstop in June. Ironically both routes compete with jetBlue whom Spirit is in a proposed merger agreement with. JetBlue flies five times daily from both Orlando and […]
Facing potential DOJ scrutiny, JetBlue plans a mega-hub at Fort Lauderdale (including European flights) and will launch new Tallahassee service in 2024.
JetBlue Airways as we discussed on Sunday is likely facing some serious antitrust scrutiny for its proposed merger with Spirit Airlines in the near future. Today the announced long-term plans to grow their Fort Lauderdale base into what would effectively be a the type of mega hub with a critical mass of destinations that could […]
What happens if Ashley Moody runs for Governor…and Nikki Fried is FDP Chair simultaneously?
Nikki Fried potentially leading the Florida Democrats into its rebuilding period raises so many red flags, it’s impossible to concisely outline them in a single piece. What’s worse is the whataboutism and justifications given by Fried’s supporters about her past and present actions in support of causes which aren’t aligned with the vast majority of […]
MSD Five Years later – the view from Coral Springs
As a longtime Coral Springs resident who was in High School at J.P. Taravella when Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School opened (and had about half my friends move to the new school, and they were part of the first full graduating class from MSD), the events of February 14, 2018 were among the most painful […]
If Nikki Fried can’t fill out financial disclosure forms properly, how can she run a major political party?
Below is an article from June 2021 that ran on this site about then Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried’s inability to honestly fill out basic forms in a political campaign. Imagine this on the state party level where reporting is much more intensive and complicated. — Financial disclosure forms, a legacy of the progressive good government Florida […]
As antitrust scrutiny rises, jetBlue makes bizarre promises (they likely cannot keep)
As the Department of Justice appears increasingly likely to file a lawsuit in the next few months to block to impending jetBlue/Spirit merger (note, I love Merrick Garland because unlike his last six predecessors he actually enforces antitrust laws, so the fact so many Democratic activists don’t like him because of something something Donald Trump, […]
Florida History Podcast: Runaway Slaves head to 18th Century Florida
As part of Black History Month at the Florida History Podcast ,we discuss several topics we have previously touched upon in greater detail – the impact of runaway slaves on Spanish Florida in the 18th Century, the free black settlement of Fort Mose and the critical role free African-Americans took in defending Florida from British […]
Nikki Fried for Democratic Party Chair is a uniquely terrible idea
Just when you thought Florida Democrats couldn’t sink any lower, the bottom could finally fall out. A group of FDP leaders, have authored an open letter to draft former Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried as a candidate to Chair the Florida Democratic Party. The election is February 25, and former State Senator and Miami-Dade Democratic Party […]
The Florida Squeeze 