Businesses Play a Key Role in Helping Kids Beat Cancer: What Could Be More...
The effort to help youth--our future--makes the communities where we work and live better places, which may be why we are seeing more and more businesses stepping up to provide crucial support to...
View ArticleChildren's Voices
Scattered up and down Florida is a small army of children --about 31,500--living under court supervision. They are not troubled children living in disorderly homes or kids with drug or psychological...
View ArticleDavid and Jacqueline Siegel
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 77-year-old founder of timeshare firm Westgate Resorts and his 46-year-old wife became icons of excess after they launched construction of a 90,000-sq.-ft. mansion just...
View ArticleGun Owners: Sometime This Spring, Florida Will Pass the 1-Million Mark for...
A fusillade of news kept Florida gun owners in the headlines in 2012: * The February fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman in Sanford sparked protests and renewed scrutiny of...
View ArticleFalcon 9 Rocket: Commercial Launches Are Helping the Space Coast Recover from...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To the long list of space firsts in Florida, add the advent of commercial space flight with 2012'S launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and its Dragon cargo carrier--the first of a...
View ArticleCitizens: The State-Run Insurer Brought Some Problems on Itself
Florida went another hurricane season without a significant storm--but not so for Citizens Property Insurance, the subsidized state insurer of last resort. Citizens brought on its own rough weather:...
View ArticleSouthern Swing: Up North from Central Florida to the Georgia-Alabama Borders,...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PENSACOLA Jackson's Steakhouse Five Sisters Blues Cafe Iron Jackson's Steakhouse is named for Old Hickory himself and owned by Good Grits Restaurant Group. The Southern accent is...
View ArticleTaking to the Skies
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jason Atkins, 40 Founder, CEO / Tui Lifestyle, Miami Beach Jason Atkins founded Tui Lifestyle five years ago to help out people like himself who wanted to move into a residence...
View ArticleTed Yoho: Republican Congressman, North-Central Florida
When Cliff Stearns, a 23-year veteran congressman, lost a primary battle to Gainesville veterinarian Ted Yoho in August, stunned state political operatives and reporters asked: Who is Ted Yoho? Yoho,...
View ArticleLow Flow
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For decades, northwest Florida's seafood industry has worried about falling water levels in the Apalachicola River, which originates in north Georgia and winds south into...
View ArticleWe Keep Good Company
WINNER OF THE ASPEN PRIZE for COMMUNITY COLLEGE EXCELLENCE Reginald McGill Director of Constituent Services, City of Orlando. Class of 75 Before he was a successful business and civic leader, Reginald...
View ArticleFreshman Lawmakers
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The confluence of term limits and redistricting contributed to significant turnover in the Florida Legislature, which welcomed 59 new lawmakers--including members who shifted...
View Article110%
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The growing popularity of endurance sports means major revenue growth for Ponte Vedra Beach-based sports apparel maker 110%. The 4-year-old company makes compression socks and...
View ArticleSuburban Renewal
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This fall, if all goes according to plan, 80 to 100 outlet stores will open on the site of the moribund Palm Beach Mall. Next door, owners of the dated President Country Club are...
View ArticleFarmer's Market
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Three years ago, Tom O'Brien decided that he wanted something more to do than helping run his family's C&D Fruit and Vegetable Co., a $20-million-a-year produce grower and...
View ArticleCirle
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tiny eye care-related medical technology incubator Cirle has hooked up with a gigantic partner, Bausch + Lomb. Cirle, formed in 2010 by Bascom Palmer Eye Institute's director of...
View ArticleMiami, Y'all
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An old guide to understanding our state's politics and culture claimed that in Florida, the South is in the north, while the North is in south Florida. The division held true for...
View ArticleLake Nona: The Development, Home to Medical City, Is Helping to Transform...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The year just past marked a milestone for the evolution of central Florida's economy. At Lake Nona, the Nemours Children's Hospital opened, and Lake Nona's developers announced...
View ArticleStephen Klasko: CEO, University of South Florida Health, Tampa
Dr. Stephen Klasko made waves in 2012, starting with the opening of the $38-million Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation in downtown Tampa that he championed. He also helped create 200...
View ArticleRobert Runcie: Superintendent, Broward County Public School District
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A Harvard economics graduate and Northwestern MBA, Robert Runcie was chief of staff in Chicago public schools before coming to Broward, the nation's sixth-largest public school...
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