Category Non-Political
Qatar Airways making Miami flights daily
Qatar Airways who are currently the only Middle Eastern airline to serve the state of Florida is bumping its service to Miami up from 5 times weekly to daily beginning in the winter of 2015. The carrier is a state owned and funded airline. The Emirate of Qatar boasts the world’s largest reserves of natural gas, […]
Could the Tampa Bay Rowdies become South Florida’s team?
The Tampa Bay Rowdies have had a big week. Coming off a season where the team struggled, new management has quickly made several moves including a raid on the rival Fort Lauderdale Strikers who were inches away away from winning the NASL title last month. The Rowdies announced five new signings between Monday and Wednesday. […]
The return of Eastern Airlines
Eastern Airlines, which was instrumental in the growth of Florida’s tourism industry and the links the state enjoyed with the northeastern United States has returned to its Miami home almost 24 years after shutting down.
Report: German carrier Eurowings to make Fort Lauderdale first US destination
Lufthansa, who recently announced new service to Tampa from Frankfurt is about to launch long-haul services with its low-cost Eurowings subsidiary. The new service to Tampa compliments existing Lufthansa service from Orlando to Frankfurt and from Miami to both Frankfurt (with an Airbus A380, the largest commercial plane ever built) and Munich. Eurowings will at […]
The Kartik Report: Major Orlando City SC and Fort Lauderdale Strikers news
The Kartik Report formally relaunches January 1st with a new interface and look. The last few days has seen big news from both Orlando and Fort Lauderdale.
Florida pro soccer teams stumble badly on the PR front this week
Editors Note: The Kartik Report will relaunch January 1st with a new look and new content. The site which was in existence from 2006 to 2010 focuses on Florida-oriented soccer news. In the interest of full disclosure, he previously served as the Director of Communications for the NASL and both the Fort Lauderdale Strikers and […]
Monday Musings – 100th birthday celebrations, US Senate race, Jacksonville city elections and Fort Lauderdale Strikers title run ends,
I spent this past weekend in Kochi, Kerala, India for my grandfather, VR Krishna Iyer’s 100th Birthday celebration (He only turned 99 on Saturday but the way Indians count birthdays is to count the day you were born as your first birthday). My grandfather is a former member of the Madras State Legislature, the Kerala […]
Monday Musings: Katy at Harvard, Washout in St Pete, Dangers of Facebook jinxes, Modi at MSG
I had the wonderful privileged to go hang out at the Harvard Institution of Politics this weekend to attend a conference on Bipartisan Advocacy. Walking through the IOP is like the magical wonderland for political nerds – everything you touch or walk by is a part of history. I got to hang out with Christine […]
Five must watch PBS Documentaries
With the debut of Ken Burns’ The Roosevelts tonight on PBS, we will once again surely see why Public Broadcasting produces and airs better TV documentaries than anybody. Here are five must watch PBS historical documentaries from this admitted PBS junkie. Ken Burns: The Civil War The granddaddy of all TV documentaries came out […]
Monday Musings: Support for Scottish Independence, 50 years since the “Daisy Ad,” Florida paces US victory in Prague, ISIS a real threat?, Dennis Baxley, Islamic Caliphate history
I have been derided in both soccer and political circles as an “anglophile,” and it is a label I have come to accept and even embrace after trying to fight it off for years. I have after all spent more time in my life in and around London then in any major American city except […]
The Florida Squeeze 