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,…
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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,…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: INCLUSIVENESS
I am reminded of a poem we had to memorize back in the sixth grade at St. Rose of Lima Catholic School in Ephrata, Wash., written by the American poet, Edwin Markham. It went like…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: AMAZON EDUCATES
The explosion in Amazon’s educational resources is providing a blueprint Florida can emulate in empowering the next generation of workers. Amazon’s multi-faceted digital training resources – including coding, software architecture, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: OFFICE WORK FOREVER CHANGED
As the vaccine begins its distribution across the country, the next 12 months may bring us to normalcy in some ways. However, in one particular way, it is unlikely: office-bound workers. As employers have discovered…