April 19, 2024
Editor's column
Three C's
These are heady times for the arts in Florida. Miami has a stunning new performing arts center. In St. Petersburg the beautifully renovated Mahaffey Theater has reopened. Tampa's performing arts center is healthy. Miramar wants to build an $18-million cul
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Published on 1/1/2007
Charters' Place
Over the past eight years, groups across Florida have been starting charter schools at an average rate of about 40 a year. There are now about 370 charter schools in the state.
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Published on 12/1/2006
Premium Solutions
On a plane trip some years ago, I sat next to an insurance company executive who gave me an interesting, if abbreviated, perspective on his business.
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Published on 11/1/2006
Results
From my window here at Florida Trend's main office, I can see close to $100-million worth of new investment without using my peripheral vision.
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Published on 10/1/2006
Roofs
Until the run-up in home prices, discussions involving construction of housing for lower-income people occurred pretty much out of the mainstream, among do-gooders, bureaucrats and the few developers who specialized in "affordable housing."
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Published on 9/1/2006
Reasoning Animals
Two stories from the state's growth management front this summer.
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Published on 8/1/2006
Rules Of The Game
Looking at Florida's research sector these days, there are a number of reasons for optimism: Florida now ranks among the top 10 biotech centers, according to the Ernst & Young Global Biotechnology Report.
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Published on 7/1/2006
Peripheral Visionaries
For several months now, like many Floridians, I've followed the coverage of the four men who want to succeed Jeb Bush as governor.
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Published on 6/1/2006
Opportunities
Because of her gender, my daughter is likely to have fewer chances to play on a team than her brother at most colleges in Florida and in the U.S.
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Published on 5/1/2006
Six of 10
In Florida, funding for career education only amounts to about 5% of total education funding and six of every 10 ninth-graders either drop out of high school or don't go on to college if they finish high school.
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Published on 4/1/2006
Eye on the Ball
People may move to Florida, but getting them to transplant their core, heartfelt allegiances from "back home" is often a tricky proposition.
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Published on 3/1/2006
Tectonic Plates
Florida's immigrant workers, documented and undocumented, once were visible only in our fields and groves. No more.
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Published on 2/1/2006
Cleaning Up
One of the most interesting and important bits of government policy-making these days is going on in a group called the Pollutant Trading Policy Advisory Committee (PTPAC).
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Published on 1/1/2006
Indexing Success
One of the traits of successful people, businesses and communities is the ability to engage in an open, honest examination of where they are, where they want to go and what they're doing to get there.
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Published on 12/1/2005
Getting By
Much in a new report from the LeRoy Collins Institute called "Tough Choices: Facing Florida's Revenue Shortfall" seems right on the money.
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Published on 11/1/2005
Summer 2005: The Big Bloom
Here on the Gulf Coast, newspaper stories about red tide appear annually, as regular and predictable as humidity.
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Published on 10/1/2005
Exit Interview
I first encountered Hodding Carter III the way most people my age did -- as a face on the television screen.
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Published on 9/1/2005
Safety
Most who encounter evidence of sexual abuse either don't recognize it for what it is or don't know what to do.
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Published on 8/1/2005
Business Units
Imagine being able to engineer a membrane with holes so small that trying to put a human hair through one would be like pushing a condo tower through a doughnut hole.
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Published on 6/1/2005
Mentes sin Fronteras
Demographic diversity expands to central Florida.
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Published on 5/1/2005
Degrees of Frustration
No one's happy in higher education these days. In the short term, the disquiet has to do with how power is distributed among the Legislature, governor, educational bureaucracy and administrators of the state's colleges and universities.
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Published on 4/1/2005
The Cancer Equation
As is so often the case in so many areas of science, high-tech and business in the state, Florida has been slow to invest in the people and institutions that would make the state first-rate rather than cut-rate.
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Published on 3/1/2005
Stirrings on the Water Front
A skirmish over water in southwest Florida may offer a good preview of bad things to come in Florida.
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Published on 2/1/2005
Business's Moment
Four organizations -- the Florida Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise Florida, the Council of 100 and TaxWatch -- may be close to working effectively in concert for the first time.
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Published on 1/1/2005
Dick Vitale, at home
Last Christmas, Dick Vitale -- yep, the Dickie V. of "awesome, baby" and "diaper dandies" and "time for a T.O., Mr. Knight!" -- told the Boys and Girls Clubs of...
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Published on 11/1/2004
