Someone in state government needs to step up and address the standoff over the proposed commuter-rail project in Orlando. ...more

August 3, 2008

Thinking 'out loud until it started to hurt... ...more

August 2, 2008

LOS ANGELES — As if rising gas and food prices weren't enough, a ticket to the Magic Kingdom will soon cost a few bucks more. ...more

August 2, 2008

Numbers may not lie, but attendance figures announced for training camp have seemed somewhat inaccurate. ...more

July 29, 2008

Business Briefcase ...more

July 28, 2008

How might you say Mickey Mouse in Spanish? Mickey Mouse will do - after all, it's a proper name. ...more

July 28, 2008

For the first time since the Bucs started training at Walt Disney World in 2002, their annual parade of athletes into the Celebration Hotel actually bears watching this year. ...more

July 25, 2008

A new generation of superfast, topsy-turvy amusement rides - often, with metal twisted to defy gravity and common sense - are getting the hearts of Florida's theme park patrons thumping. ...more

July 24, 2008

A review of injuries at parks across the state during the past seven years shows that most of the injuries are from people climbing in and out of the rides. They misstep and break an ankle or fall and fracture a shoulder. Bumped heads are fairly common. ...more

July 23, 2008

One 34-year-old woman stepped off the Jazzy Jellies ride at SeaWorld and fractured her ankle. A few weeks later, at Roa's Rapids in the same park, a 63-year-old woman inhaled water. Tales of heart troubles, dehydration and, in some cases, broken bones come out of the grade-yourself report card for Florida's theme parks, made public each quarter by the state's Bureau of Fair Rides, a division in the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. ...more

July 22, 2008