• Alternate Text
  • Loading

  • Newsletters
  • Podcast
  • Public Notices
  • 40 Under 40 Nomination
  • Mobile App
  • Subscribe
  • Login
  • News
  • Strategies
  • Entrepreneurs
  • M&A
  • Leadership
  • Regions
    • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    • Manatee-Sarasota
    • Charlotte-Lee-Collier
    • Florida
  • Industries
    • Business Support
    • Commercial Real Estate
    • Residential Real Estate
    • Development
    • Finance
    • Food-Beverage
    • Health Care
    • Manufacturing
    • Retail
    • Sports–Entertainment
    • Technology
    • Travel-Tourism
  • Insights
  • More
    • Advice
    • Transactions
    • 40 Under 40
    • Big Book of Business
    • Subscribe
    • Opinion
    • Executive Diversions
    • Change-Makers
    • Reprints
  • News
  • Strategies
  • Entrepreneurs
  • M&A
  • Leadership
  • Regions
    • Regions
    • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    • Manatee-Sarasota
    • Charlotte-Lee-Collier
    • Florida
  • Industries
    • Industries
    • Business Support
    • Commercial Real Estate
    • Residential Real Estate
    • Development
    • Finance
    • Food-Beverage
    • Health Care
    • Manufacturing
    • Retail
    • Sports–Entertainment
    • Technology
    • Travel-Tourism
  • Insights
  • More
    • More
    • Advice
    • Transactions
    • 40 Under 40
    • Big Book of Business
    • Subscribe
    • Opinion
    • Executive Diversions
    • Change-Makers
    • Reprints
  • Newsletters
  • Podcast
  • Public Notices
  • 40 Under 40 Nomination
  • Mobile App
  • Subscribe
  • Login

Government

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • August 6, 2009
Candid Cann

FDOT District One Secretary Stan Cann explains how the federal stimulus plan is affecting $1 billion worth of transportation projects in the region, and to be ready for more toll roads in the future.

  • Florida
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • July 31, 2009
Government Digest

A look at governmental action from around the Gulf Coast

  • Florida
  • By Jay Brady
  • July 31, 2009
Pay Me Later

Florida's risky property insurance system relies on a patchwork of undercapitalized public and private insurance, suppressed rates, policy assessments, an unlikely national catastrophe plan, and the next weather report. It could add up to one big bankruptcy for all of us.

  • Florida
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • July 23, 2009
Government Digest

A look at governmental action from around the Gulf Coast

  • Florida
  • By Jay Brady
  • July 23, 2009
The Cost to Drive

It seems there just is not enough money for roads in Florida. Government policies to promote less driving reduce gas tax revenues to pay for roadwork, and new federal legislation could also make it more difficult to create public private partnerships and build needed toll roads.

  • Florida
  • By Jay Brady
  • July 16, 2009
McCarty's Camouflage

Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty touts $4.2 billion in fresh capital as proof of a dynamic homeowners' insurance market. But the Business Review found it's really only $208 million — and even that's with taxpayers' help.

  • Florida
  • By Jay Brady
  • July 16, 2009
Government Digest

A look at government action from around the Gulf Coast

  • Florida
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • July 9, 2009
Government Digest

A look at government action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
  • By Jay Brady
  • July 9, 2009
Business Landscaping

On June 30, Gov. Charlie Crist finished acting on 262 bills brought to him by the 2009 Legislature.

  • Florida
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • June 25, 2009
Government Digest

A look at government action around the Gulf Coast

  • Florida
  • By Jay Brady
  • June 25, 2009
Shedding light on renewal

Community Affairs Secretary Tom Pelham sets the record straight on the Community Renewal Act after opponents and editorial boards misrepresent the law's key provisions.

  • Florida
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • June 11, 2009
Government Digest

A look at government actions from around the Gulf Coast

  • Florida
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • June 11, 2009
Millage Mayhem

With taxable property values way down for the second year in a row, the rolled back tax rates look to be heading up — but not without a fight between elected officials, their staffs and property taxpayers.

  • Florida
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • June 5, 2009
Government Digest

A look at government action from around the Gulf Coast

  • Florida
  • By Jay Brady
  • May 28, 2009
Government Digest

A look at government actions around the Gulf Coast

  • Florida
« 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 »
The best of Business Observer, delivered directly to your inbox

Get the latest business and commecial real estate news from Tampa Bay to Naples.

Sign Up

Latest News Business Observer

1
  • December 16, 2025
Report: Tampa No. 2 retail real estate market nationwide
2
  • December 16, 2025
Longboat Key to get first-ever Goodwill store
3
  • December 16, 2025
$74M Naples botanical garden names interim CEO
4
  • December 16, 2025
Sarasota County buys 3.59-acre Venice waterfront property
5
  • December 16, 2025
Naples senior center founder, prominent social services advocate dies at 75

More Industries

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • Residential Real Estate
  • Business Support
  • Advertising-Marketing
  • Agriculture
  • Development
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Finance
  • Government
  • Food-Beverage
  • Health Care
  • Insurance
  • Law
  • Manufacturing
  • Philanthropy-Nonprofits
  • Retail
  • Sports-Entertainment
  • Technology
  • Transportation
  • Travel-Tourism

Contact

  • 1970 Main St.
  • Third Floor
  • Sarasota, FL 34236
  • Phone: 941-362-4848

Extra, Extra!

  • Newsletters
  • App
  • Podcast
  • Big Book of Business

more

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise
  • Distribution Points
  • Jobs
  • Privacy Policy
  • Subscribe
  • Accessibility Options

sister sites

  • Your Observer
  • Jax Daily Record
  • Orange Observer
  • Accessibility Options
  • Copyright © 2025 Observer Media Group Inc., All Rights Reserved
×
3 Articles Remaining!
Not a Subscriber?

Click here to Subscribe

Already a Subscriber?

Click here to Login

Sign Up for Daily Brief

Start your day with the top Gulf Coast business news you need to succeed.

Sign Up for CRE Central

Stay updated with a weekly roundup of big deals, market shifts and the people shaping commercial real estate from Tampa Bay to Naples.


Smart People Subscribe.

Turn headlines into game plans. The playbook’s right here.
Subscribe to the Business Observer today.

Subscribe Now