Category 2022 Elections
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Fort George Island
Duval County’s Fort George Island Cultural State Park adjoins the Timucan National Ecological Preserve
New southeast Florida light/commuter rail proposals coming to the forefront
This week, both on Monday and Wednesday, the Florida DOT held public meetings on the proposed Broward County Rail system. Below is the proposed system map. The system would initially run from Aventura to Fort Lauderdale but NOT yet cross the New River as either a new bridge or tunnel would need to be built […]
US Airways Fort Lauderdale hub of the mid 2000’s – the plans that led to the quick rise and fall
The closure of United’s Miami hub after 9/11 and the failed attempts to merge United and US Airways left the Star Alliance without a South Florida hub. In addition American Airlines, who dominated Miami and had crushed the competition from United in the 1990’s down the road in Miami, had moved aggressively into Fort Lauderdale […]
Florida Memory: The wild jungle-like St Lucie River of the 1950’s
The St Lucie River area along the Treasure Coast was the closest thing we had to a verifiable American jungle habitat. Some areas such as George LeStrange preserve in Fort Pierce preserve that jungle-like look. In fact the St Lucie River area looked so much like the Amazon that a few scenes of the 1979 […]
The loss of Jimmy Buffett and the Florida we once knew in the DeSantis era
Jimmy Buffett’s passing on Friday is symbolic of the Florida we once had and have now lost. Buffett was the greatest symbol of the unique Florida culture we had created in this state during the 1970’s and 1980’s- a unique cross between Caribbean and southern US culture. He was the embodiment of the Florida I […]
Neal Dunn is wasting a congressional seat
Florida’s 2nd Congressional District is the largest congressional district in Florida by land area and consists of all of Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Taylor, Wakulla, Washington counties, portions of Holmes, and Lafayette. It’s massive absurdly, ridiculously, large. The kind of district designed by a bored majority party that wants to make […]
Florida aviation news – Key West being ramped up
United Airlines will bring 737-700’s into Key West this winter with two nonstop daily flights to Newark and single dailies to Chicago (O’Hare), Houston (Bush) and Washington (Dulles). Second daily flights to Chicago and Washington will be flown with a regional jet. Given Key West’s shortish runway, the 737-700 is the largest plane that can […]
Civil War – Florida and the Union Blockade
Florida was the least populated state in the Confederacy during the Civil War. But with by far the longest coastline in the nation, the Union had to take seriously the ability of the smugglers to use Florida to get weapons and other raw materials to the Confederate Government. At the outset of the war, the […]
The Florida Squeeze 