Air Florida is today remembered for one thing- the tragic Potomac River crash in January 1982 that killed 78 people both on the plane and on the 14th Street Bridge which the aircraft crashed into shortly after taking off from Washington National Airport. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Florida had its own international […]
Excellent Tampa Bay Times piece. which raises many questions.
Kartik Krishnaiyer, Justin Snyder and Nick Steffens recorded the first Florida Squeeze Podcast late Sunday. The program embedded below discusses the Dream Defenders, Rick Scott’s handling of the Martin verdict and some of economic issues impacting Florida. This pod may be somewhat rough around the edges as our intent was to record a pilot/test type […]
This past week the Rev. Jesse Jackson brandished Florida “an apartheid state” and attacked Governor Rick Scott for being similar to the southern governors of the 1960s and 1970s who resisted Civil Rights. While Florida most certainly does not resemble apartheid governed pre-1994 South Africa or pre- 1980 (Southern) Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) the state does […]
My mini-documentary about the Tampa Bay Rowdies, who won the Tampa Bay area’s first professional sports championship in 1975 and won a league title last year in the NASL was released via World Soccer Talk today. The full mini-documentary is below.
Marco Rubio has done it again. Yesterday he was one of just ten Republican Senators to vote against the confirmation of Samantha Power as UN ambassador. On the floor Rubio said “she’s being appointed by a president whose foreign policy is fast becoming an utter and absolute failure.” Trust me, I am far from a […]
From the Florida Current.
With the Tony Bennett news I wanted to write some analysis, but since I am very pressed for time today with other items, here is a piece from the last week of the 2013 session about Jeb Bush’s education agenda from a historical perspective. From May 1, 2013: Jeb Bush left the Governor’s office over […]
Continuing with recent historical themes on the site, we have decided to rank each former Confederate state in terms of Democratic performance for every Presidential election from 1952 to 2012. Prior to 1952, the GOP had not carried a single southern state since 1928 when Florida was one of three states in the south to […]
TFS’ Scott Gaillard will host a two-hour radio program today on 1600 the Beach in Jacksonville. Joining him will be TFS’ Justin Snyder and Kartik Krishnaiyer. The program will air from 4-6pm today on 1600 the Beach.
The Florida Squeeze 