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Guest AuthorJuly 3, 2014

Central Florida is the state’s seat of hospitality – and perhaps the nation. The tourism industry’s mantra is “heads in beds,” the measure of economic payoff for having all those theme parks, hotels, restaurants and world-class airport facilities in our backyard. And now it’s time for the University of Central Florida to mirror the mantra […]

Guest AuthorApril 30, 2014

I’m saddened by the fact that electronic communication has seemingly replaced the letter. I consider the work of the U.S. Postal Service one of the greatest values around today. To have a letter go 3,000 or more miles in a couple of days at a piddling cost amazes me. It costs me as much in […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 19, 2014

There it was in The New York Times: schmutz. In an article on the efficacy of raising the height of the Bayonne Bridge connecting New York’s Staten Island with New Jersey, no less a maven than the executive director of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey made a point by stating: “The […]

Guest AuthorDecember 29, 2013

Villainous actor Strother Martin uttered a classic line in the movie “Cool Hand Luke” that stands at No. 11 on the American Film Institute’s top 100 movie quotations of American cinema’s first century: “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” As one whose right brain vastly overpowers his left, I’m compelled to focus on […]

Tag: Rich Sloane

Rich Sloane: More ‘fans in stands’ can help boost UCF’s brand

UCF Forum’s Rich Sloane: U.S. Postal Service gets my stamp of approval

Rich Sloane: Read this if you want to be a ‘maven’ on Yiddish terms

Rich Sloane: We have a ‘failure to communicate’; technology is to blame