Philip Cardella

By Philip Cardella November 14, 2025 Florida US 41 near Mile Marker 48 While preparing this week's post for This Week in Florida's weekly blog two things became apparent: 1) I had forgotten to process the photos I took on Sunday 2) those photos told important

I just got busy last week and had a partially written newsletter that didn't go out. So, here is one newsletter with two weeks of news and notes from South Florida. I personally continue to think about community, our community and community in general, what it means to

On Friday, the Miami New Times, the paper of record for South Florida's weird, unusual and trendsetting (whether most locals want these trends or not– all of those links are NSFW, BTW, this one about Miami having the worst phone etiquette is not), ran a story I didn&

October 18, 2025 Key Largo, Florida About 300 people, I think (200-300 was my estimate), were at the Key Largo demonstration when I left at 11 AM. Key Largo is about an hour south of Miami and an hour and a half north and east of Key West. There is

Continuing the recent theme of building community by doing things together, Johns Hopkins professor of political science and blogger Henry Farrell had an interesting post on a book by Harhie Han called Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in America's Church. One of Farrell's personal takeaways

Table of Contents Support This WorkSouth Florida OutbackSouth Florida Outback Introduction Finite Disappointment Florida Gonna Florida Historic Interlude Infinite Hope Bear the History Hound Finds Introduction I'm in Sacramento this week to comfort my Mom after my parent's dog, Shane, passed away last month. The dog&