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The world of banking is changing rapidly. Southwest Florida Business Today Publisher Karen Moore sat down with Brandon Box, Southwest Florida Region President for Cogent Bank, to discuss the factors affecting banking in the business marketplace.

"Moore About Business" provides information and insights on Southwest Florida business. This week, Karen Moore focuses on the funds from the American Rescue Plan Act and other small business programs.

While most of us know a dragonfly when we see one – a large insect, often flying over water, always with four out-stretched wings – most of us have little knowledge of their diversity in Florida – and around the world. We have over 80 species of dragonflies living in Florida, and, like birds, they are often colorful. Each species, and often each age and sex group, has a unique color pattern. Our dragonfly species also vary in size, the darners being the largest, sometimes exceeding four inches long, and the Eastern Amberwing being one of the smallest at about an inch long.

Discover the wildlife of Florida and how experts are battling threats to its ecosystems.

Live “Homegrown in Florida” is a series of essays and short stories about “coming of age” in the Sunshine State. Some are funny, some are sad, some are…

Hydraulic Fracturing or ‘fracking’ is a technique for releasing oil and natural gas from underground by fracturing deep rock formations with pressurized…

Phillip DePoy is a prolific novelist, poet, and playwright. He was nominated for a Shamus Award for a book in his popular Flap Tucker series, and received…

Florida has a humid, subtropical environment, with lots of shallow wetlands – perfect for the lives of ferns. As a result, we have a richness of ferns – over 60 species -- including some, such as the Old World Climbing Fern and Water Spangles -- that are troublesome exotic invaders that have been deliberately or accidentally introduced from elsewhere. Some such as Resurrection Fern are small; and some are enormous, such as the Giant Leather Fern. In this week’s wild things I introduce some of the diversity of Florida ferns and their basic characteristics

Florida’s wetlands and sub-tropical climate provide a perfect home for a great diversity of orchids. In this week’s “Wild Things” we’ll explore the nature and diversity of orchids the beauty and diversity of their flowers, their commercial value (such as the beautiful hybrid orchids so readily available in market places), some have commercial value in products that emerge from them – such as vanilla. Some are subtle, such as the green flowers of the Toothed Rein orchid, some have subtle beauty in their colors, such as the Dingy-flowered Star orchid. Some are truly spectacular, such as the Ghost Orchid.

More people are touched by sinkholes in Florida than everywhere else in the world. Professor and scientist Dr. Robert Brinkman writes in his new book…