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Minimum Wage, Maximum Controversy

Employees of fast food restaurants such as McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and KFC are on strike in cities from New York to Detroit.

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  • August 2, 2013
Tech Data loses top manager

Murray Wright was in charge of Tech Data's sales, marketing and logistics.

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  • August 2, 2013
Dallas 'man-cave' eatery chain hits Gulf Coast

Twin Peaks plans four locations in the area and 25 in Florida over the next decade.

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  • August 2, 2013
Summer construction heats up in Lee County

Lee builders pull more commercial and residential construction permits in July.

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  • August 2, 2013
Jodat Law Group owners buy new Sarasota U.S. 41 office

The price equated to $147 per square foot.

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Sarasota County public safety building scheduled to start in October

The entire budget for the project is a little more than $18 million.

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  • August 2, 2013
Wesley Chapel company buys Summit Medical Center

The price equated to $42 per square foot.

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Kiran Patel-led group buys Hilton Garden Inn

The price equated to $72,500 per room or $123 per square foot.

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  • August 2, 2013
Homebuilder Toll Brothers plans 54-acre Spanish Wells community

The price equated to $84,537 per acre.

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  • August 2, 2013
HMA deal not the windfall some predicted

The recently announced sale of Health Management Associates isn't the shareholder windfall some forecasted, but investors might be consider themselves lucky anyway.

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  • August 2, 2013
Sales tax break idea is broken

Some tax wonks in a Washington, D.C., office are party poopers in Florida's much-celebrated three-day sales tax holiday, scheduled for Aug. 2-4.

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  • August 1, 2013
European luxury car firm considers Port Manatee

The company, A.D. Tramontana, manufactures $500K cars with Formula 1 parts.

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  • August 1, 2013
Biotech entrepreneurs to pitch investors

The Sunshine State's biotechnology industry has grown 60% in five years.

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  • August 1, 2013
Shareholder skeptical of HMA deal

Glenview Capital continues to lobby for a new board of directors at HMA.

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Retirees like it hot on the Gulf Coast

The Gulf Coast is a scorcher when it comes to hot real estate markets for retirees, according to a new RealtyTrac report.

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