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…
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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…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: UNPRECEDENTED
It appears that we are living in “unprecedented” times. COVID-19, the first global pandemic since the Spanish flu 100 years ago, descended on us in 2020. We are living through “unprecedented” storms wiping out the…