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  • April 21, 2009
Who's baiting who with mural?

Clearwater businessman Dru Jeanis opposes the city's enforcement action against a fish mural. To make a case for his now partner in crime, Jeanis has put up his own mural and says he hopes the city cites him for not obtaining a permit.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 20, 2009
Tech business cuts ties with parent

As of January, St. Petersburg is one company richer, but there are certainly a lot of similar faces and a familiar name.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 17, 2009
Tea parties steepall along the Gulf Coast

There was no shortage of frustrated taxpayers at tea parties dotting the Gulf Coast on April 15 — a day now associated with the infamy of due taxes.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 17, 2009
PR guys know how to get good PR

The Gulf Coast chapter of the Public Relations Society of America is offering what it calls a “hardship plan” to unemployed or temporarily disabled members.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 17, 2009
Prostrate economy, but still recruiting

While many recruiting firms are struggling and some are going out of business, Tampa-based Naviga Business Services is growing and getting new business every week.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 17, 2009
Husband and wife form new company

Lynda Keever, now retired publisher of Florida Trend, is teaming up with her husband, Bill Eshenbaugh, in a new company called USAsset Management, a firm that will handle the sale of distressed properties for banks.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 14, 2009
Appraiser: Lee values to fall 30 percent

Lee County Property Appraiser Ken Wilkinson estimates residential property values in Lee dropped more than 30% in 2008 compared with the previous year.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 10, 2009
Brokers by day, rockers by night

By day, Mike Davis is an executive director and investment specialist for Cushman & Wakefield of Florida in Tampa.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 10, 2009
Commercial Real Estate Tampa Bay

Work begins on Meres Town Center

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 10, 2009
Commercial Real Estate Lee-Collier

Cookies & Cracker Corp. buys 75 acres

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 10, 2009
Commercial Real Estate Transactions Sarasota-Manatee

Wisconsin entrepreneur buys Helping Hands

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 10, 2009
Naimoli puts home on market

Vince Naimoli, founder and former principal owner of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team and former chief executive of Anchor Glass Container Corp. in Tampa, has put his home in North Tampa's wealthy Avila community up for sale.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 10, 2009
Blue Head Tequila posts profit

Blue Head Tequila, a Tampa-based Tequila company, has reached a turning point, or maybe a celebration point.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 10, 2009
WCI bankruptcy moving slowly

It's been eight months since Bonita Springs-based homebuilder WCI Communities filed for bankruptcy reorganization and there's still no plan.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 10, 2009
Time writer didn't do his homework

For nearly 90 minutes, Harvard educated, liberal writer/author Michael Grunwald droned on to 50 or so growth policy groupies about Florida as the “unsustainable,” “sunset state,” mostly reading his speech — “Smart Growth/Dumb Growth: A Matter of Survival.”

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