The Salty, a new Audubon Park doughnut shop on Corrine Drive near Old Winter Park Road, continues to draw lines of eager customers around what used to be an auto repair shop. The success of…
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Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: THE TRUMP PARTY
Out of the debris of the failed Epiphany ’21 Coup could well be the unraveling of our two-party political system. Ten Republicans joined Democrats in the impeachment of Donald Trump on Jan. 13, led by…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: AMAZON’S TREASURES
A recent announcement by Amazon reminded me of the old phrase: “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” The company is buying 11 Boeing 767-300 E.R. twin engine jets, which have been retired by Delta…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: DEMOCRACY WON AGAIN
For the second time since November’s historical vote count, American democracy has won again. What occurred Wednesday, when our Capitol was overrun by a violent and seditious mob stoked to riot by a sitting president,…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: INCLUSIVENESS
I am reminded of a poem we had to memorize back in the sixth grade at St. Rose of Lima Catholic School in Ephrata, Wash., written by the American poet, Edwin Markham. It went like…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: AMAZON EDUCATES
The explosion in Amazon’s educational resources is providing a blueprint Florida can emulate in empowering the next generation of workers. Amazon’s multi-faceted digital training resources – including coding, software architecture, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: OFFICE WORK FOREVER CHANGED
As the vaccine begins its distribution across the country, the next 12 months may bring us to normalcy in some ways. However, in one particular way, it is unlikely: office-bound workers. As employers have discovered…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: CURIOUS RESIGNATION
Ron Filipkowski, a lifelong Republican and former state and federal prosecutor, resigned from his state-appointed position on a panel which picks judges for which he was nominated by Gov. Ron DeSantis, after Filipkowski reviewed the…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: TALE OF THREE LEADERS
On the federal level, President Trump not only threw his hands up and relinquished responsibility for handling COVID-19, but he actually called it a “Democrat-led hoax.” On the state level, Gov. Ron DeSantis refused to…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: ETERNAL FOOTSTEPS
Skeletal remains discovered this past week in Pompei, the Roman city which had been destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D. – nearly 2,000 years ago – remind us of certain eternal truths that…