Personal guarantors seeking relief

None of us needs more economic doom and gloom. It's spring. There's a recovery under way (supposedly). Let's move on. Don't tell you what you know (it's still blah out there). Tell you something you don't know. And hopefully, it's good news.

It's not. Not good news. But it's important.

As this is written and for the next 80 days in Tallahassee, special-interest skirmishing is under way — centered in the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee — between bankers and commercial borrowers, the results of which will influence every Florida community's economic recovery; every local government's residential tax rates over the next five years; and Florida's ability now and in the future to attract new capital to create new jobs.