April 23, 2024
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Florida Icon: Rita Case
Before Rick passed away, it was more like he was 70% charity and 30% of the business. I was more 70% running the business and 30% doing charity.
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Published on 3/8/2022
Florida Icon: Clarence Otis Jr.
We moved to California from Mississippi when I was a child, and from when I was in the second grade on, we lived in Watts. It was a unique neighborhood,...
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Published on 2/9/2022
Florida Icon: Christopher Still
"People are hungry to see where they live expressed in art."
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Published on 1/11/2022
Florida Icon: Robert Metzger
Transplant nephrologist; medical director, OurLegacy; Orlando, age 82
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Published on 11/30/2021
Florida Icon: Former farmer of the year Lynetta Usher Griner
Logging executive, cattle rancher, Levy County; age 65
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Published on 10/27/2021
Hall of Fame inventor Norma Alcantar
On her research: “Nobody really knows how the plaques in Alzheimer's disease form, so I thought that would be a niche for me.
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Published on 8/31/2021
Florida Icon: First Hispanic U.S. congresswoman, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
“I'm very worried about the direction of our political discourse."
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Published on 7/30/2021
Dave Krepcho is a Florida Icon
The CEO of the Second Harvest Food Bank of in Central Florida talk about what drives him.
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Published on 6/29/2021
Karen Bell is a Florida Icon
What we do is so important. We feed people. It makes me proud just to be part of it.
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Published on 5/26/2021
Jack Payne is a Florida Icon
The No. 1 challenge in Florida is climate change, sea-level rise. There's research being done in South Florida...
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Published on 4/28/2021
Florida Icon: Richard Bowers
Richard Bowers shares his memories of coaching and growing up in a different era...
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Published on 3/29/2021
Icon Yann Weymouth shares his secrets to successful architecture
"You can't be an architect and have a template, I don't think."
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Published on 3/1/2021
Former president of Minor League Baseball Pat O'Conner
"I had three years left on my contract, but I decided to retire. I'm not going to stay just to get a check or fight what is the undeniable path baseball is on."
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Published on 1/27/2021
Florida Icon: Richard Lapchick
Director of the DeVos Sport Business Management program at UCF, Orlando; age 75
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Published on 11/25/2020
Astronaut Nicole Stott is a Florida Icon
Retired astronaut, artist and director of the Space for Art Foundation, St. Petersburg; age 57
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Published on 10/28/2020
Ed Chiles is a Florida Icon
"Mullet is the fish that built Cortez. This is not a trash fish. This is a wonderful fish."
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Published on 8/26/2020
Steven Yerrid is a Florida Icon
You leave a little piece of your soul inside the courtroom after every case.
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Published on 7/27/2020
Nadine Smith is a Florida Icon
LGBTQ rights advocate and founding executive director of Equality Florida
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Published on 6/25/2020
Judy Genshaft is a Florida Icon
Former president, University of South Florida, Tampa; age 72
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Published on 4/27/2020
Florida photographer Herb Snitzer talks about shooting iconic figures from the past
"I'm pretty unassuming. Just a regular guy."
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Published on 1/27/2020
Gene Deckerhoff is a Florida Icon
Florida Sports Hall of Fame broadcaster, voice of the FSU Seminoles and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tallahassee; age 74
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Published on 12/26/2019
Florida Icon Jack Hartmann
The children's entertainer talks about his life making educational music videos for kids...
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Published on 11/26/2019
Special Olympics athlete Maryann Gonzalez
Special Olympics athlete and offical, member of the Florida Sports Hall of Fame and the Florida Special Olympics Hall of Fame, Leesburg; age 54
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Published on 10/25/2019
Writer Randy Wayne White is a Florida Icon
The creator of the Doc Ford series of novels shares his view on writing, baseball and getting stabbed.
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Published on 9/25/2019
