The nation’s largest Diverging Diamond Interchange (DDI) will open Sunday at Exit 213 off I-75 at University Parkway according to The Bradenton Herald. The interchange between I-75 and University Parkway (Exit 213 for those of us that drive up and down I-75 between the Tampa Bay area and South Florida regularly as I do) will be […]
Editors note: With Gwen Graham’s entrance into the Governor’s race recently, we have some recollections of the origins of the 1978 race where Graham’s father, Bob emerged from dark horse to Democratic nominee and then to Governor. Noted Florida historian and author Robert Buccellato gives this vivid account of the origins of the Graham juggernaut that would […]
Southwest Airlines will begin nonstop service from Fort Lauderdale to San Jose Costa Rica on November 5, 2017. Southwest will become the third airline to serve San Jose nonstop from Fort Lauderdale (along with JetBlue and Spirit) and the fourth from south Florida (American flies from Miami). Southwest will also begin Fort Lauderdale-Punta Cana service […]
I promise I’ll have Part 3 of the DNC fraud lawsuit series up soon. In the meantime, please pay attention to this important story by Dr. Thomas Kline MD, PhD, geriatric medicine specialist in Raleigh, North Carolina. Dr. Kline’s column, The Myth That Prescriptions Caused The Opioid Crisis couldn’t be more timely. The opioid crisis is being used as an excuse […]
Republican legislative leaders particularly House Speaker Richard Corcoran won a major battle with the passage of HB 7069 in the legislative session’s dying moments on Monday May 8. Today educators and parents across the state urged that the Governor veto the legislation. Normally, there would be faint hope that Governor Rick Scott would veto such […]
An audacious new media project launches today, with live presentations throughout the week. Media Democracy in Action, produced by The World’s State and Project Censored is an interactive and participatory media project beginning today with a series of presentations from investigative and citizen journalists. The project sets off with a collaborative media system “that holds truth to power and […]
Florida’s legislature has a way of reinforcing checks and balances on second term “lame duck” governors. Governor Rick Scott experienced this session what Jeb Bush did in 2005 and Lawton Chiles did in 1997 – once you have no midterm election where you need to run with the Governor or a shift in priorities, the […]
JetBlue Airways is adding additional service from Fort Lauderdale and Orlando to Mexico City beginning September 6. Currently the airline serves both routes once a day but will be boosted to twice-daily. The additional flight from Fort Lauderdale will be served with a Airbus A 320 aircraft. JetBlue’s additional flight eases the void left when […]
Last year, I penned the afterward to Robert Buccellato’s excellent Florida History timepiece, Finding Dan McCarty focusing on the Governorship of Leroy Collins, who took the unfulfilled McCarty mantle and promise, and made Florida a modern state. I have in the past focused much my analysis on Collins’ views toward improving Florida’s business climate and had […]
A full column on these issues is coming, likely this weekend but for now the Tampa Bay Times outlines Governor Scott’s options to veto either the entire budget, portions of the budget or specific bills tied to funding that have arrived at his desk. My sense is that at this point Governor Scott cannot afford […]
The Florida Squeeze 