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  • January 27, 2010
Business survey brings good news

A slight majority of American business owners say 2010 won't be so bad after all, according to a recent survey commissioned by Grant Thornton International, a global accounting firm.

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  • January 23, 2010
Short sales suggest more price drops

There's a lot of important trend numbers to follow in the current residential foreclosure spike, but Peter Murphy, president of Tampa-based Home Encounter, sees one number as most important — 71%.

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  • January 22, 2010
Office business takes major hit

The moribund office furniture business in the Sarasota-Bradenton market could be on its last legs.

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  • January 22, 2010
Reading foreclosure tea leaves

Last year's foreclosure activity on the Gulf Coast suggests that any real estate recovery this year will be uneven.

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  • January 22, 2010
No slam dunk for Thrasher

The five week race to head the Republican Party of Florida looks like a two-man, one-woman race now, and the early favorite is facing criticism from a powerful Senate Democrat.

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  • January 22, 2010
Economic Snapshot: Car Sales Rebound

Every area of the Gulf Coast exceeded the modest statewide 1.3% increase in sales of autos and related accessories in October.

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  • January 22, 2010
Banker confirms downturn's severity

Most people agree that today's market is unique. But most people don't have nearly a half-century of professional banking experience to use for comparison.

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  • January 22, 2010
Lee County plummet drives up sales

If you thought the residential real estate boom years were crazy busy in the Fort Myers area, 2009 was even more frenetic.

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  • January 22, 2010
Investment Adviser Tainted by Nadel Scandal Seeks a New Home

Coffee Talk hears that Chris Moody, a onetime business partner of jailed Sarasota financier Arthur Nadel, is officially leaving town.

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  • January 22, 2010
Bill Bradley's truth: Savings, taxes must rise

Former New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley was known for big plays during his time with the NBA's New York Knicks in the '60s and '70s.

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  • January 22, 2010
Maybe folks really don't want high speed rail

When the Bradenton Herald gave Tampa Bay Partnership CEO Stuart Rogel an opportunity to answer a few questions for a story about high speed rail, they got a digital earful.

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  • January 22, 2010
What to take from Economic Scorecard?

We're number three! Out of five.Not very exciting perhaps, but the Spring 2009 version of the Regional Economic Scorecard, a product of the Tampa Bay Partnership, reveals quite a bit.

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  • January 22, 2010
The 12 days of bureaucrats' haze

Hillsborough County's planning and growth management department prides itself as being “the County's full service community development department that conducts planning, zoning, development review, permitting and inspections services.”

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  • January 21, 2010
Right Buy, Right Time

The fifth fastest growing company in the nation bought new office property on the Gulf Coast for a steal.

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  • January 21, 2010
The Hachems buy office building

Ashley 601 Inc., a company headed by Tampa investors Sam and Laurice Hachem, purchased the 55,000-square-foot historic office building on Ashley Drive north of Kennedy Boulevard for $4.1 million.

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