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Natural success
Land O'Lakes is the U.S. capital for nudist resorts, drawing 100,000 visitors annually to the five nudist resorts there. And as ads for the resorts appear in mainstream magazines and demand grows, new developers enter the market to build communities for those who want a permanent home.

Now that's cheap
Louis Van Roy doesn't think of himself as a cheapskate when he heads to the kitchen to make a "salami" sandwich like the ones his family ate during tough times in the 1940s.

Robert Trigaux
Phone industry confuses 'revolutionary' with static
If they make a movie of today's phone industry, here's an apt title: A Beautiful Mess.

Helen Huntley
On money
Weigh your pension survivorship options carefully

Florida's Great Northwest: Brought to you by the St. Joe Company (with your help)
The state's largest landowner is redrawing the map of the Panhandle. To make it work, though, the company needs money and land from the taxpayers.

Lesson of Millview is learned decades later
St. Joe Co. has tried its hand at development before. The buyers did not fare well.

Development vs. environment leads to give-and-take meeting
A quiet workshop at the Disney Wilderness Preserve near the Osceola-Polk county line featured some of the more powerful people in Florida.

Loose change
STRAIGHT TO THE BANK: Some 50-million employees at more than 500,000 private-sector employers nationwide are paid by direct deposit, according to National Payment Corp. of Tampa. That's more than 50 percent of corporate wage earners. Government employee participation is higher: 92 percent.

Ten tips
Tips for storing your belongings properly.