April 29, 2024
Around Florida
The Personal Touch
"If you look and act like a typical salesperson, people will treat you like a salesperson," says Kim Jones, a sales consultant with ProActive Training and Consulting, a West Palm Beach firm.
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Published on 1/1/2006
Enough Juice?
A contentious local plebiscite over energy policy in Tallahassee offered a glimpse of the future in a world where oil is unlikely to see $10 a barrel again.
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Published on 1/1/2006
The Nuclear Option
After a dramatic increase in natural gas prices, encouragement from President Bush and new tax incentives, Florida's electric utilities are planning a new generation of nuclear power plants in Florida.
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Published on 1/1/2006
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
Megacongregations
Without Walls International Church, Tampa; Christ Fellowship, Palm Beach Gardens; First Baptist Church, Orlando; Coral Ridge Presbyterian, Fort Lauderdale; FaithWorld, Maitland; Idlewild Baptist Church, Lutz.
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Published on 12/1/2005
Florida's Best Restaurants
Many favorites have fallen victim to the hurricanes; others are finding ways to survive and even thrive.
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Published on 12/1/2005
Battle of the Bundles
Telephone, cable and internet providers are in each other's pockets in a fast-changing race for Florida customers.
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Published on 12/1/2005
A Hole in 18
18 Florida leaders tell Florida Trend magazine about their favorite golf holes.
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Published on 12/1/2005
Big Box Worship
Everything at Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale bespeaks a high-volume enterprise. Island-themed trams shuttle worshipers from the parking lot hinterlands of the 75-acre church campus to the sanctuary lobby door.
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Published on 12/1/2005
Body Builders
There's enough biomedical research and industry in the state to put together a Bionic Floridian.
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Published on 12/1/2005
Debtors Prism
Many provisions of the new federal Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act were written with Florida in mind.
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Published on 12/1/2005
Trendsetters - Dec. 2005
Layne and Cary Lightsey, Lightsey Cattle Co.; Renee, Richard and Brent Goldman, Sagemont School; Jon Yob, Creative Recycling Systems.
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Published on 12/1/2005
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
A State of Discontent
For half a century, local governments and unelected redevelopment authorities have been using eminent domain, or the threat of it, to muscle residents out of their homes and businesses.
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Published on 12/1/2005
An Element of Hope
Florida, not known as a high-tech haven, has quietly positioned itself on the cutting edge of hydrogen-fuel technology.
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Published on 11/1/2005
Food, Glorious Food
Kash n' Karry is remaking itself as Sweetbay. It hopes to compete by working both ends of the food chain, from Slim Jims to $15-a-pound cheese.
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Published on 11/1/2005
Chasing Alpha
Behind a mushrooming number of hedge funds is a crop of young entrepreneurs attracted by the prospect of big earnings and less regulation.
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Published on 11/1/2005
Done Deals
Merger and acquisition activity is down, with the overall dollar volume kept high by one big deal.
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Published on 11/1/2005
Trendsetters - Nov. 2005
D.T. Minich, Lee County Visitor and Convention Bureau; Rob Higgins, Tampa Bay Sports Commission; marathon organizers Steven Tebon, Lisette Riveron and Cate Boyett.
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Published on 11/1/2005
One for the History Books
Former Florida State University President Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte remembers poking through the remarkable files of Steel Hector & Davis in Miami when he was a young lawyer there in the 1960s.
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Published on 11/1/2005
A Steely Resolve
Lucy Hadi has a job that has chewed up almost everybody who has held it. She's the head of Florida's sprawling Department of Children and Families, once known in an even more sprawling form as Health and Rehabilitative Services.
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Published on 11/1/2005
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
Brownfields Specialist
Michael Goldstein has become perhaps the state's most influential brownfields player.
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Published on 10/1/2005
Obstacles
From 1999 to 2004, tourism from the U.K. edged up nominally. But the number of visitors from key eurozone nations dropped a drastic 28%, accounting for 246,000 fewer visitors. What gives?
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Published on 10/1/2005
Driving Ambition
The France family of Daytona turned NASCAR and International Speedway Corp. into a national phenomenon, but the caution flag is out as they try to expand into Seattle and New York.
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Published on 10/1/2005
