News that Guy Fieri’s Chicken Guy will be occupying the former Steak ‘n Shake on Orlando Avenue in Winter Park, an expansion of his collaboration with Robert Earl, has created quite a hubbub. Not only…
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Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: SPACE FRONTIER
With famed astronaut and former Senator Bill Nelson firmly at the helm of NASA, the historic agency may well be entering a golden age of space exploration. Nelson’s first presentation expounded on Artemis, focused on…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: VACCINES FOR HEALTH-CARE WORKERS
After coronavirus vaccines were distributed to the elderly in senior-living communities beginning in mid-February, the outcomes for residents have been profound, severely lowering cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Nonetheless, despite a 90% adoption rate, not everyone…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: HACKERS
Colonial Pipeline’s encounter with Darkside, which leases its software to a criminal ring of hackers who then targets tens of thousands of businesses, health-care providers, local governments and distributors, is a clear wake-up call for…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: ALL ABOUT ASPERGER’S
Elon Musk’s surprise disclosure he had Asperger’s Syndrome on “Saturday Night Live” took the business world by surprise; but, more importantly, it broke open the narrative about what even some professionals consider to be a…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: POST-COVID ECONOMICS
While it’s too soon to take a victory lap as the economy begins its journey back to whatever normal will look like, preliminary numbers reflect a population chomping at the bit. In the first quarter,…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: DISNEY’S 50TH
When my family moved to Orlando in August of 1971, three months before Disney opened, it was a very different place. Air transportation was located at a converted Air Force base; the biggest tourist attractions…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: DISNEY REBOUND
What a day a year makes. Last March Disney’s market cap, as stocks tanked under COVID-19, bottomed out at $214 billion; one year later, as the vaccines are reopening the economy, Disney’s market cap is…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: CELEBRATING MR. ROGERS
Often surrounded these days by the good, the bad and the ugly, any attention directed to Fred Rogers, who graduated from Rollins College in 1951 is a welcome breath of fresh air. Photos were released…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: EMBRACING ZOOM
While I knew what Zoom was prior to the pandemic, its scalability wasn’t apparent. Once we were sequestered, Zoom became the preferred channel of communication – reinforcing what Marshall McLuhan said years ago: “The medium…