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Florida

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  • Jay Brady
  • August 25, 2011
Business Champs

Associated Industries goes beyond its annual accounting of how legislators voted on business issues and honors 18 lawmakers — including several from the Gulf Coast — for taking risks to encourage the free-enterprise system.

  • Florida
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    By
  • Jean Gruss
  • August 25, 2011
Fresh Water

Dan DeLisi pledges to bring fiscal prudence to the South Florida Water Management District, a once-bloated agency that squandered millions of dollars on questionable land purchases.

  • Florida
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    By
  • Jay Brady
  • August 19, 2011
Foreign Capital, Local Jobs

A Tampa-Sarasota partnership's investment model finances development projects backed by foreign investors. The payoff: an expedited path to citizenship, if enough jobs get created.

  • Florida
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    By
  • Jay Brady
  • August 19, 2011
Rules Redux

Bruce Mitchell, president of Clearwater-based Rally Stores Inc., and chairman of the Florida Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association, sees the bottom-line benefit to the proposed repeal of a redundant state rule impacting his industry.

  • Florida
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    By
  • Jay Brady
  • August 19, 2011
Government Digest: Aug. 19

Governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
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    By
  • Jay Brady
  • August 11, 2011
Government Digest: Aug. 11

Governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
  • For Subscribers Only
    By
  • Jay Brady
  • August 10, 2011
Contracting with Seminole Nation

Though it's a sovereign government, contracting with The Seminole Tribe of Florida doesn't require 'an Act of Congress' — in fact, it's a straightforward process.

  • Florida
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    By
  • Jay Brady
  • August 5, 2011
Public Charity: Wise or Waste?

Local governments contracting with nonprofits for services spend millions of taxpayers' dollars each year. The strategy has its supporters and detractors.

  • Florida
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    By
  • Jay Brady
  • August 5, 2011
Government Digest: Aug. 5

Governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
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    By
  • Jay Brady
  • July 21, 2011
Government Digest: July 22

A summary of governmental action from around the Gulf Coast, including: Charter board rejects voter approval measure, U.S. House targets EPA water quality standards and Sarasota bonds down, Florida's rating is up

  • Florida
  • For Subscribers Only
    By
  • Jay Brady
  • July 21, 2011
Growth and Taxes

A new Florida Gulf Coast University study shows that metropolitan areas with higher taxes had lower growth and high-growth areas had lower taxes.

  • Florida
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    By
  • Jay Brady
  • July 15, 2011
Positive Negative

Property value declines flatten out across the Gulf Coast, but with many local governments facing deficits, taxes may still rise.

  • Florida
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    By
  • Jay Brady
  • July 15, 2011
Government Digest: July 15

A summary of governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
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    By
  • Jay Brady
  • July 8, 2011
Government Digest: July 8

Governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
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    By
  • Jay Brady
  • July 8, 2011
Mass Exodus?

By 2014, more employers may opt out of offering employer-sponsored insurance once key parts of the U.S. health care law come into effect.

  • Florida
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