On this week’s Florida History Podcast we dive into the negotiations and treaty that handed Florida over to the United States. We also discuss the angry reaction to Jackson’s invasion of Florida among Cabinet members, with one exception – John Quincy Adams. We discuss this historic irony as well. You can listen to the Florida […]
Apologies that this column hasn’t run in months. My father’s passing and other family and work responsibilities have taken me away from the commercial aviation space of late. But we have a load of updates below. Foreign carriers Norse Atlantic will shift its transatlantic services to Oslo and London (Gatwick) from Fort Lauderdale to Miami […]
A traditional east coast scrub area in Pompano Beach that resembles a desert habitat.
While my initial reaction was to mock Miami Mayor Francis Suarez’s candidacy, some longer-term thinking and analytical thoughts based around conspiracy theories are now dominating my mind on this matter. The conspiracy theory holds that Suarez is facing an FBI Investigation and therefore is deflecting by running for President. That was part of my theory […]
This was pretty well laid out- https://apnews.com/article/desantis-newsom-election-2024-california-florida-09475e131ebc2983a8d72e13f55a9955
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in the United States this week for a state visit, hosted by President Biden and then the next day he will address a joint-session of Congress. No question this is happening because of India’s strategic and economic importance. But by embracing Modi, the US potentially undermines its moral […]
Zora Neale Hurston Mary McLeod Bethune Florida’s First African-American Elected Officials: Josiah Walls Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs A three-part series on original Underground Railroad which went to Florida. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 — Angola Florida Runaway slaves and Negro Fort Rosewood Reconstruction
Juneteenth is now a Federal Holiday but that commemorates the ending of slavery in Texas – not Florida. While slavery was abolished in Florida technically by the Emancipation Proclamation, it was on May 20, 1865 that Emancipation was proclaimed aloud in Tallahassee, the state capital. Tallahassee had been the only Confederate capital east of the […]
By Thomas Kennedy The City of Miami is an absolute dumpster fire. Aside from the evergreen issues of chronic flooding, lack of public transportation, skyrocketing housing costs, and rampant corruption, the city is being consumed by nonstop scandals. A few weeks ago, one of the most perennially corrupt characters in Miami politics, Commissioner Joe Carollo, […]
The Florida Squeeze 