April 25, 2024
Editor's column
Florida, the Sonnenschein State?
The city of Gainesville, looking to be a renewable energy leader in a state with plenty of sunshine but very little solar power, has turned to Germany for a model.
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Published on 2/1/2009
We're Too Much into Debt
Floridians are upside-down in mortgages, and everything else.
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Published on 12/1/2008
Sugar Buyout Only Adds to Complexity of Everglades Restoration
The South Florida Water Management District is now slogging through the process of evaluating how much U.S. Sugar is worth.
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Published on 11/1/2008
The Power of School Choice
The Florida Supreme Court may have removed two amendments relating to the use of vouchers in the public school system from the November ballot, but the issue of introducing more choice into the schools won’t go away, nor should it.
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Published on 10/1/2008
Florida Is Still 'a Place That Draws People'
In bumpy economic times like the present, national media outlets in particular are prone to a chorus of “Is it all over for Florida?” stories, most often with some kind of “trouble in paradise” backbeat.
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Published on 9/1/2008
A New Era for Public Transit?
Now, gas prices north of $4 a gallon find journalists back on the buses and rail cars, dutifully documenting big increases in transit ridership all over the state.
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Published on 8/1/2008
Winning May Solve Everything in Fla. Baseball
Both the Rays and the Marlins are playing winning baseball, but is that enough to bring revenue and the fans?
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Published on 7/1/2008
Speculation in Real Estate
Plenty of average people who didn’t know better got into homes by borrowing half the purchase price with an interest-only mortgage loan.
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Published on 6/1/2008
No Water, No Growth
New Florida residents can get by without enough roads or schools, but they can’t live without water.
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Published on 5/1/2008
Society's Knee-Jerk Inclination for Prescribed Drugs
We Americans don’t like to hurt. And we’re wealthy enough as a society not to have to. When we’re in pain, whether emotional or physical, we’re conditioned to “take something for it.”
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Published on 4/1/2008
New State Song Out of Tune
“Old Folks at Home,” aka “Way Down Upon The Swanee River,” has been Florida’s official song since 1935. For whatever reason, the Legislature decided in the middle of the Depression to dump the previous state song...
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Published on 2/1/2008
Inside Baseball
Fifty years ago, a Tampa businessman named Harris Mullen published the magazine’s first issue (April 1958). Anniversaries are double-edged propositions — they can make you feel old, or they can remind you how vital you are.
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Published on 1/1/2008
Someday, Soon?
In 1958, the state’s universities didn’t even charge tuition, only a $75-per-semester "student fee."
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Published on 12/1/2007
Healthy
Hotelier Harris Rosen is still making revolutionary inroads on his company's healthcare plan.
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Published on 11/1/2007
Rain on the Roof
Florida Trend has written a lot about water in Florida for the past several years, and some of that professional focus spilled over into a personal trip I made this summer to Bermuda.
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Published on 10/1/2007
Neighbors
NIMBY can look different from the inside.
Mark Howard
My own back yard is an older subdivision that sticks out, blisterlike, from the southeastern edge of the Pinellas County peninsula...
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Published on 9/1/2007
An Opening
Discussion of how to improve Florida’s higher-ed system plays out between two poles.
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Published on 8/1/2007
10 Years Later
A little more than a decade ago I wrote an article for Florida Trend about changes in the federal welfare laws and their potential impact on Florida citizens and businesses...
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Published on 7/1/2007
Nudging the Battleship
Like most of Florida, the seven-county region of Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Polk, Seminole and Volusia counties is wrestling with growth.
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Published on 6/1/2007
Backbone
From its enactment in 2001, the plan to restore what remains of the Everglades has been a vehicle with a lot of moving pieces.
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Published on 4/1/2007
Experts
Test scores indicate that Florida's AP students know "less about civics and U.S. history than students in virtually every other comparable state."
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Published on 3/1/2007
Here We Go Again
In 2005, the Legislature created the 15-member Century Commission for a Sustainable Florida, to counsel the state on growth issues.
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Published on 2/1/2007
