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Ag Time WITH ABBY

2020 Polk County Youth Fair Wrap-Up photo

Recipe Spotlight

Fresh-Picked Strawberries Pack a Sweet Punch

PATIENCE and Perspective

Child Life Specialists at Lakeland Regional Health Serve Increasing Need

Decades of Service Don't Dim Lakeland Optometrist's Drive

FOR THE PAST 15 or more years, Janet Bailey, her husband, and their daughter have relied on one doctor for their eyecare: Dr. Gerard Hubbell.

BARRIERS Breaking Down

AdventHealth’s Stratus Video Translation Service Spells Out Improved Care in Any Language

Strawberry Fields Forever

Andy McDonald of Sweet Life Farms Describes Why Advocacy Efforts Are More Important Than Ever Before

When You Run an Abortion Clinic, Every Budget Line Is a Battle

On the front lines of the most challenging small business in America

Who Pays to Make Big Tech Green?

Companies like Google have leverage over local utilities as their power use climbs

Printing is not Dead

HP AND XEROX AREN’T QUITE THE BEACONS OF INNOVATION THEY ONCE WERE, BUT THEY’VE STILL GOT A GIANT PILE OF MONEY WORTHY OF A TAKEOVER FIGHT

Trolls come to the Stock Market

Think retail investors are still bored with the long bull market? Check out Reddit

Milk Money

The dairy farm of your imagination is disappearing

The Wild, Wild Rest

Bizarre secrets from the staff at the Canyon Ranch spa

Knives, Walls, And Other Market Metaphors

Narratives can help investors get over their worries. Which ones do we use in the coronavirus era?

EVERYDAY LOW PRICE

Walmart makes a major move into health clinics and services

Penciling out a pandemic

One forecast has the new coronavirus wiping out $1 trillion in world output

Hot Dogs Are The Best-Looking Food

Emilio Santoyo’s Special Sauce

The Pitchman's New Pitch

Celebrity salesman Anthony Sullivan, known for his OxiClean commercials, bought a hemp farm and launched a CBD brand. Why? Because to succeed, he says, you must be authentic.

Need to Make a Decision? Ask the Machine

Artificial intelligence can now guide employees’ actions at work. But don’t take it too seriously…yet.

Could You Use an Apprentice?

The old plumber and electrician trainee model has been reimagined for the new world—and could be exactly what a bootstrapped, growing startup needs.

Breaking a Few Eggs

Founders can give their companies a lot of charm and personality— but is that always a good thing? It’s the question facing Eggs Up Grill, a quirky breakfast spot that now has private equity owners, a CEO from TGI Fridays, a mandate to grow, and a delicate balance to strike.

'Not in My Neighborhood'

Sometimes a community just isn’t ready to welcome a strange new business. Here’s how dispensaries have managed to quell (or be defeated by) local objections.

Can The Black Market Be Stopped?

The biggest threat to marijuana startups isn’t coming from the legal competition. It’s coming from the illegal market, which thrives even in states that have legalized weed. To extinguish the threat, licensed dealers might have to work together.

Better Business, Better Business World

Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake is one of just a few female “unicorn” founders. And she has learned to embrace that power.

When?

When do you launch? / When do you act? / When do you change? It just might be the most important question an entrepreneur ever answers.

Mom Knows Best

When entrepreneurs really listen to their customers, their businesses can transform. That’s what Michelle Kennedy learned when building Peanut, a social networking app that set out to help moms make other mom friends…but has become about so much more.

Don't be a brand. Be a voice.

Black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross spent 10 years getting a hair care company off the ground.One thing is clear:The message matters as much as the product.

What Avengers: Infinity War Can Teach Us About Business

The movie shows that diverse individuals can work together to overcome extraordinarily daunting challenges.

Venezuela's Maduro Bucks The Tide

Embracing capitalism and the dollar, the embattled president lures émigrés home

Stave Puzzles Will Drive You Wild

How a tiny manufacturer of wooden jigsaw puzzles created an addiction that high achievers just can’t kick

YouTube's Shyest Superstar

The internet’s most popular kids’ channel is run by a skeleton crew and owned by a 55-year-old guy in a quiet California suburb