Publisher's Letter
Publisher's Letter
His office memos, while not frequent, are invariably clever and entertaining, so much so that on more than one occasion we encouraged him to try writing for our magazines.
Instead of spending resources on a stupid idea like the WAVE streetcar in downtown Fort Lauderdale, that money and effort should be spent where it is really needed.
It is a curious situation, for the community schools are regarded among the best of that genre in the country, and not all the big universities can say the same.
If you would expect the man to be a thrillingly geeky nerd, he sort of is, but he also has a touch of the Renaissance man.
“The problem is too much of a good thing. The traffic being generated has the old neighborhoods surrounding downtown up in arms.”
“The more ordinary people complain, like boats against the current, the more developers bear us ceaselessly (and mindlessly) into the past.”
As we begin our 53rd season, we look back upon the history of what has become one of the unusual regional magazine stories in the country. We say unusual; we might claim unique, for we know of no other magazine that compares to our broad distribution over such an affluent market on the east coast of Florida. There are only a few state magazines that come to mind: Texas Monthly, with 300,000 circulation, is the most successful. But statewide audiences are geographically much broader.
“Our ’57 trip to California was meant as a vacation, and if it didn’t exactly change our life, it sure changed that summer.”
“Excuse the horn blowing, but it is a fact that Gulfstream Media Group, with its six titles, most of which have been published for decades, has a wingspan unmatched by any other media we know.”
“If you wait 50 years, you may get only crumbs from the table. And pretty stale ones at that.”
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