Orlando’s recent approval of Community Redevelopment Area (CRA) incentives to assist restaurants in opening or improving sidewalk cafes is a positive step in the pseudo post-pandemic era in which we are currently operating. Studies by…
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Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: ELON MUSK’S VICTORY
Competition in the space industry is heating up. After seven months of litigation by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, attempting to dislodge SpaceX from its sole contractor relationship to NASA for Artemis 3, Elon Musk has…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: TRANSPORTATION’S FUTURE
West Palm Beach has now joined Lake Nona in planning air-taxi passenger services by 2024-25, through unmanned electric verti-copter drones for short-range commuters. Just this past week, Brightline announced it plans on providing South Florida’s…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: VACCINE PASSPORTS
Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy rose to prominence in 1950 asserting he had a list of “members of the communist party” employed by the State Department. That list grew bigger over time. Florida appears to have…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: ANTI-VAX MANIA
Florida Sen. Manny Diaz launched a broadside of late in suggesting that it’s time to review vaccination requirements for public school students. The Hialeah Republican’s words, as Chair of the Senate Health Policy Committee, are…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: AUTOMATION
The most recent labor statistics indicate that 4.3 million people left their jobs in the month of August. It reminded me of the 1993 film “Jurassic Park,” in which Jeff Goldblum’s character, horrified that dinosaurs…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: SHATNER’S STAR TREK
It may not be accurate that William Shatner is going where no man has gone before, but we can say with certainty that he is going where no 90-year-old has. Captain Kirk, the cultural icon…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: JOINING DISNEY
In 1959, Cape Canaveral – later renamed Cape Kennedy – was selected to launch the first successful test firing of a Titan Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. In 1965, Uncle Walt announced his plans to build “bigger…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: DISNEY’S LAKE NONA
The deal between Walt Disney World and Tavistock Development to buy 60 acres next to Lake Nona’s Medical City is more than just a real-estate deal. Disney’s intention is to transfer some 2,000 Disney employees…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: THE BIG BANG
The successful all-civilian mission onboard the Crew Dragon is not just the next step in the evolution of the space industry; it is the Big Bang in space tourism. Benji Reed, SpaceX’s senior director for…