A majority of Seminole County homeowners living near the shuttered Deer Run Country Club showed enthusiastic support for county plans to convert the former golf course into a public park, voting to create a special taxing district to help transform and preserve the area.
About 67% of property owners surrounding the former golf course voted in favor of forming a municipal service benefit unit, or MSBU, which will charge 2,273 homes either $130 or $65 a year — depending on proximity to the new park — for 15 years. A well-organized group of volunteers in the area helped mobilize the effort, called Save Deer Run, securing just over 1,600 petitions, almost 95% in favor of the initiative.
Bill Gates Promised to Give Away His Wealth. Well, That Was a Complete Lie. A decade ago, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett launched the Giving Pledge, which they explain as “a commitment by the world’s wealthiest individuals and families to dedicate the majority of their wealth to giving back.” According to the official website, some … Read more
NerdsToGo, a Texas computer and technology repair services franchise, plans to enter the metro Orlando market as part of a push to grow its Florida footprint by roughly 65 units by 2026.
The company, based in Carrollton, Texas, near Dallas, currently has 29 stores in 16 states, including two in Florida: Tampa and Bonita Springs. The goal is to open about 15 locations in Central Florida, the company told Orlando Business Journal.
“With the rising number of people working from home, managed IT services for both small and medium-sized companies is a definite need,” Mark Jameson, chief support and development officer at NerdsToGo parent company Propelled Brands, said in a prepared statement. “We see great growth potential in Florida and are confident that our proven business model, along with the support and resources we provide, will allow potential franchisees to thrive.”
The year was 1947. Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) was sitting in a smoky New York City bar, just about to order a drink. It was at this point that his company for the evening, entertainer Jackie Gleason, made a drink suggestion that Frank would not soon forget: “Jack Daniel’s. That’s a good place to start.”
In 2013, Jack Daniel’s sold more than 11 million cases of the company’s iconic Black Label Tennessee Whiskey bottle. According to the company’s historian, Nelson Eddy, that would never have been possible if not for Frank Sinatra.
“Frank’s introduced to Jack Daniel’s in around 1947, we’re a brand that’s under 200,000 cases per year at that point, very small brand,” Eddy says. “And the only reason Sinatra finds out about it, he’s at a bar with Jackie Gleason. Gleason turns to him and says, ‘Have you tried Jack Daniel’s?’ He tries it that night, he falls in love with it, he feels like he’s discovered it and given the number of cases that were out there, in a way, he did discover it for many, many people. He starts calling it, from the stage, the nectar of the gods and the best booze in the world.”
Few could’ve predicted the lifelong friendship between Frank & Jack that would follow. Frank was no stranger to love and loss, but when it came to Old No. 7, his affection was unflinching. Wherever Frank went, Jack was nearby. At the base of his mic stand on-stage. Aboard his private jet. Front row at award ceremonies. Even in his jacket pocket when he was laid to rest.
The popular Milk District sports bar, located at 2414 E. Robinson Street [GMap], has been in business since 1958 when it was doing business as Sportstown Grama Lena’s and gangsters used to counterfeit money in a secret apartment above the bar. Owners Lee Wortman and Vicki Dore purchased the property in 1990 1981 and are … Read more
The Powerball jackpot keeps growing, this time to $570 million after no one won the grand prize in Monday night’s drawing. The next drawing will be held Wednesday at 10:59 p.m. ET. The cash option is $410.1 million. According to Powerball, though no one won Monday’s jackpot, at least one winning ticket was sold in … Read more
Aurora self-driving technology powers the big-rig, but there’s still a safety driver. That truck driving down the interstate might not have a flesh-and-blood driver.
On Wednesday FedEx announced its first autonomously-driven Class 8 truck delivery route (“Class 8 truck” is an industry term for what many Americans call a “semi-trailer truck”). Working with truck maker PACCAR and self-driving company Aurora, which is backed by Amazon, FedEx will start making deliveries in Texas using an autonomous semi.
The route on Interstate 45 between Houston and Dallas is about 500 miles round trip, and expected to be busy as the holiday shopping season approaches. The test route will run multiple times each week starting Wednesday. The Aurora-modified trucks will drive in real, everyday traffic, and a safety driver will be behind the wheel, but the trucks will be operating in autonomous mode.
Bubbalou’s Bodacious Bar-B-Que has closed its Winter Park location.
The popular barbecue restaurant has been in operation at 1471 Lee Road since 1986, but owners took to Facebook to explain that business had dropped significantly during the pandemic and that they were forced to operate the restaurant with just four employees at reduced hours.
Their Winter Park staff have all been relocated to Apopka and they will continue to operate their other locations in Altamonte Springs and Kirman Road as well.
Despite the quote below, the restaurant’s last day of business was Saturday, September 11.
How concerned should we be about America’s $28 trillion debt?
America has a problem. Well, almost 28,000,000,000,000 problems.
The national debt has ballooned to an astounding 27.9 trillion dollars. To put in perspective of just how much money that is, consider this.
If you were to stack $100 bills on top of each other, one million dollars would be around the three feet mark – about the height of a chair or a toddler.
And if you keep stacking the $100 bills, eventually past the peak of the world’s tallest building, going a little over half-a-mile into the air, this would be one billion dollars.
But we’re going for a trillion.
This would have you stacking $100 bills into the stratosphere and past the International Space Station. You would have to stack these bills 631 miles above Earth’s crust. That would equal one trillion dollars. Now imagine 28 stacks of 631 mile-high $100 bills.
