While the appalling arrest of two 6 year-olds by an Orlando police officer, disciplined 7 times along with 16 independent citizen complaints, made national news characterizing Orlando in less than a favorable light, it potentially…
Recent Posts
Orlando Sentinel: It’s not Bert the Turtle’s world anymore
In 1951, the Astoria School System in New York City produced a documentary called “Duck and Cover: Bert the Turtle.” The objective was not only to raise awareness of the imminent threat of a potential…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: SEARS
It is certainly no surprise that privately owned TransformCo is already closing the Sears stores at Lake Square Mall and Oviedo Mall along with one Sears store in Jacksonville and two Kmarts in Florida less…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: OSCEOLA COUNTY’S NEO CITY ACADEMY
Osceola County’s NEOCity Academy is demonstrating in brick and mortar the future of education and what is possible in adapting public education skills to a world dominated by technology. Operated as a partnership between the…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: ADVENT HEALTH’S COMMAND CENTER
AdventHealth has unveiled a Mission Control Center which will track every patient in all of its nine Central Florida hospitals, in a 12,000-square-foot, $20 million center, one of only seven in the country. Built in…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: SCHOOL UNIFORMS
With most Catholic Schools and quite a few private schools requiring uniforms for daily apparel, a national movement is afoot to extend the benefits of wearing uniforms to public schools. The advantages are multiple: equality…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: STEM
Tech titans Microsoft, Intel, Uber, and Google’s parent, Alphabet, are flocking to Toronto, attracted by the region’s diverse population, quality of life, deep pool of skilled labor, and wage disparity from the usual tech centers…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: BACKGROUND CHECKS AND GUN REFORM
The state of Florida has now gotten into the act with Republican Representative Anthony Sabatini from Howie-in-the-Hills resurrecting for the third time an attempt to legalize concealed weapons on college campuses. When will this insanity…
Orlando Sentinel: Trump’s ‘fireside tweets’ a far cry from FDR
With the president finishing up each chat with an appeal to God or Providence and a request to the American people to face the issues with resolute patience and faith, Roosevelt’s bedtime Fireside manner was…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: THE MATTER OF REBECCA FIERLE
What actually happened to those seniors entrusted to recently resigned guardian Rebecca Fierle will go on in the media for a long while. Was it criminal? Negligent? Cavalier?… Read more. Originally posted for the Orlando…