April 19, 2024
Politics & Law
For The Holidays
Holiday time approaches, and it's not too early to begin planning just where you want to celebrate. Walt Disney World, of course, offers a bevy of banquets and special menus...
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Published on 11/1/1995
Green Light To Developers
When Gov. Chiles appointed Jim Murley, then the executive director of a private environmental protection group, to head the state agency that enforces Florida's growth-management program, you might have expected...
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Published on 11/1/1995
The Real Orlando Magic
This story is no longer available. Please contact the Florida Trend circulation department at (727) 821-5800 to see if a back issue is available for this month.
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Published on 11/1/1995
Why Florida's Governor Gets No Respect
In January 1995, Republican Senator Mario Diaz-Balart, chair of the Florida Senate Committee on Ways and Means, unilaterally ordered state executive agencies to reduce their budget requests for the next...
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Published on 11/1/1995
Penny Pinching
Three years ago, the state Legislature set aside $1 million to fund the Florida Trade Data Center in Miami. Next month, the funding runs out, and the center may be...
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Published on 11/1/1995
Storm Watch
Late on the afternoon of October 4, as Hurricane Opal began biting into the Panhandle's sugar-sand beaches, state Insurance Commissioner Bill Nelson sat in his office, worriedly working the phones....
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Published on 11/1/1995
Readers
FLORIDA EDUCATIONOn behalf of the school board members and all of the education community throughout Florida, I would like to take this opportunity to raise a few points concerning your...
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Published on 11/1/1995
Market Intelligence
Supermarket shoppers usually know exactly what they want. They speed up and down aisles, filling their carts with the same brands they've been buying for years: Kellogg's corn flakes and...
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Published on 11/1/1995
Hooked On Sugar
Forgive Bradenton Congressman Dan Miller for thinking he could take on the U.S. sugar program. Forgive him for thinking his Republican brethren, who talk such a good game about cutting...
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Published on 11/1/1995
Around the State
FloridaAbout 5,000 members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters went on strike Sept. 7 against the nation's largest car hauler, Miami-based Ryder System Inc. As a result of the strike,...
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Published on 11/1/1995
Beef Is Back
"Where's the beef?" is really a cry from the 1980s when beef consumption in this country declined. Today, however, big-check steak house sales are soaring. Even the stomach SWAT squads...
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Published on 10/1/1995
You Asked For This Job, Bill
As I write this, no fewer than four hurricanes, tropical depressions or storms are playing a threatening game of tag out in the Atlantic. We are rapidly running through the...
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Published on 10/1/1995
Readers
The Leadership Void Tim Ireland's article in the August issue ("Is the Legislature Irrelevant?") seems to portray the Legislature as not being pertinent or not relating to the issues at...
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Published on 10/1/1995
When Rhetoric Meets Reality
A window of opportunity for reforming Florida's financial regulatory system is closing, without having let in as much change as some observers had hoped. Not long after he was elected...
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Published on 10/1/1995
Around the State
FloridaEffective in September, State Farm Insurance announced it would no longer write new policies in Florida for single-family homes, condominiums, mobile homes or commercial property. The Bloomington, Ill.-based company, the...
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Published on 10/1/1995
Sweet Talk
To Dominicis, a vice president of Flo-Sun Inc., Florida's second-largest sugar cane grower, the U.S. system is good trade policy. The government makes loans available to farmers and limits sugar...
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Published on 10/1/1995
Savoring Sarasota
I took a different tack on my latest swing through Sarasota. I added a search for the best breakfasts in addition to pinpointing newcomers of note and updating the ledger...
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Published on 9/1/1995
Education
Everybody talked about it. Business executives bemoaned new employees they had to re-educate; development officials complained of their frustration in trying to lure companies because of inadequate schools; social workers...
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Published on 9/1/1995
Card Game
After years of delay, state and federal officials finally are taking steps to convert Florida's vast government benefits business from a paper-based system to electronic debit-cards. Financial institutions are fighting...
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Published on 9/1/1995
Around the State
FloridaSecurities dealer Merrill Lynch and Co., accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand and law firm Shereff, Friedman, Hoffman & Goodman will pay $100 million to the State of Florida to settle...
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Published on 9/1/1995
Cyber Teachers
Like other four- to six-year-olds around Florida with learning disabilities, the students who attend prekindergarten class at Webster School in St. Augustine receive a year or more of special instruction...
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Published on 9/1/1995
Readers
MunicipalitiesWith reference to your article in the July 1995 issue of Florida Trend entitled "The Money Myth" by David Poppe, I must express concern for his lack of understanding of...
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Published on 9/1/1995
Choice
In the end, making the case for reforming Florida's public education system is easy. The schools are doing it themselves. Literally. In a mammoth lawsuit filed against the Legislature by...
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Published on 9/1/1995
Perestroika, Florida Style
Florida's education establishment is under siege. Businesses complain it doesn't produce workers with basic reading and writing skills. Communities blame the system's high drop-out rate (48th among the 50 states,...
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Published on 9/1/1995
Down-Home Dining
Last month's column on the culinary high-flyers of North Florida has to be balanced by some attention to the less exotic, lower-priced places where good ol' boys and ordinary tourists...
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Published on 8/1/1995
