In recent years, popular support for capital punishment has declined rapidly in the United States as people’s attitudes have begun to mirror those in the rest of the western world on this issue. Florida has long been one of the leading bastions of support and implementers of the death penalty in the United States. However, […]
A little less than two years ago Alan Clendenin was leading a fight inside the FDP – not a fight to reform the party but to prevent rules changes from occurring that took power and vote weights away from the larger counties and reassigned state committee voting in a more equitable (and accountable) fashion. But […]
The death of Fidel Castro last month as well as the liberalization of relations between the United States and Cuba is doing little to stem the flow of migrants to Florida from the island nation. According to the Associated Press, Over 50 Cuban migrants landed in the Keys on Sunday, in three different locales. Earlier […]
As first reported by ESPNFC and confirmed by our own sources, Volkswagen corporate club VfL Wolfsburg of the German Bundesliga has cancelled its January visit to Orlando and St Petersburg. The Bundesliga club was scheduled to play the Tampa Bay Rowdies at Al Lang Stadium on January 8 before facing Bahia in Orlando on January […]
Kartik, Mario Piscatella and I are waiting until tomorrow to process the election tonight, and to gather our notes on the other candidates to bring you a Progressive News Network podcast update on the race for FDP chair. I was exhausted after tonight’s election and I was just watching from my home office. Mario did […]
Publix is the Florida store…or at least now is seen as such since the Burdines brand died. Floridians have come to view Publix as a bit of a statewide institution, something which is truly our own. The company which is admired for being employee-owned and regularly cited as a “happy” workplace has a darker side […]
Many progressives have felt the deck is stacked against them with regards to internal party matters for sometime now. With the ongoing FDP Chair’s race providing high drama with little semblance of common sense in the mix, is it time for progressives to walk away from the Florida Democratic Party and focus on outside organizing? […]
I’ll be answering questions in a Reddit AMA on Wednesday at 1pm ET. The AMA (“ask me anything”) is presented by r/NASL and will largely focus (I assume) on the current controversy over league sanctioning and club failures in the closed system of US Soccer. I’m fairly positive politics will play into the discussion though as […]
On Thursday, Major League Soccer announced the list of the 10 locales that are in the running for Major League Soccer clubs 25-28. Miami which was originally slated as team 20 or 21 has slipped to 24 and from the outside view is nowhere closer to securing a team than they were in 2013 – […]
In our Friday survey of TFS readers over 80% of those voting indicated they prefer either Stephen Bittel or Dwight Bullard for Florida Democratic Party (FDP) Chair. That’s fair considering those are the two most prominent candidates and the battle has been framed as a showdown that will be decided at Tuesday’s Miami-Dade DEC meeting. […]
The Florida Squeeze 