One would think that the passage of 25 years should be sufficient for most of us – at least those in average adult age ranges – to have some sense of what life will look…
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Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: TWO WOLVES
As I read that Republicans refused to condemn Texas Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, an active QAnon conspiracy theorist, yet retain as a GOP leader Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who voted to impeach Donald Trump, I…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: BOTCHED ROLLOUTS
Recent events put a fine point on the old managerial maxim that “good ideas competently executed will always beat brilliant ones poorly executed.” The I-4 expansion, a good idea, and development of the COVID-19 vaccine,…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: BIG TECH BANS
Big Tech remains in the cross-hairs of the Florida GOP. Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Amazon banned former President Donald Trump from access to their platforms for continuing to post false and incendiary content. In retaliation,…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: COVID CLEANS US UP
Putting politics aside for a moment, it’s worth pausing to examine one of the miscellaneous ways in which continuous exposure to COVID-19 has affected America’s habits. Besides OD’ing on streaming and Zooming, apparently Americans have…
Orlando Sentinel: Insurrection, inauguration threatened, then confirmed our morals as a country
The events that occurred in our nation’s capital on Jan. 6, during which an angry and violent mob of white nationalists and Trump supporters assaulted the Capitol inspired by the inflammatory rhetoric of a sitting president…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: DOUGHNUTS RULE
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…
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,…