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Business Observer Staff
September 6, 2013

Do not call it Obamacare

There are two reasons why we should not refer to it by its colloquial name. One is that it is wrong and the other is that it diverts valid opposition.

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Matt Walsh
August 29, 2013

Common core: Don't do it

Common Core Standards. Put them in the same tin can as Obamacare.

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Matt Walsh
August 9, 2013

The nightmare of Obamacare

This is sick. No, it's sickening. Obamacare.

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Business Observer Staff
June 20, 2013

Referring to your column in the June 14 Business Observer...

From a human and humane point of view, it seems to me that their argument against an acute care satellite hospital is a stronger argument for it.

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Matt Walsh
June 14, 2013

Sorry, not enough people have died yet

Put another way, not enough people died or suffered irreversible maladies on their hour-long or 30-minute ambulance rides to one of the far-away hospitals.

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Business Observer Staff
June 7, 2013

How the Florida Gators' defense managed to stymie FGCU ... for 25 years

In 1973, Southwest Florida was deemed too small for a university. It would take another 25 years until Florida Gulf Coast University formed to meet demand in the area

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Business Observer Staff
May 31, 2013

The unintended consequences of Dodd-Frank

How provisions in the law will impact real estate transactions and Florida's economy — and promote the opposite of the law's intent.

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Matt Walsh
May 23, 2013

Bernanke, we hate to admit, is fueling Florida's growth

Florida's economy is back. Well, pretty much.

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Matt Walsh
May 3, 2013

Internet tax far more than a fairness issue

Steve Knopik, CEO of $1 billion retailer Beall's Inc., looked across the lunch table straight at his target with steely eyed seriousness and said, “How is that fair?”

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Matt Walsh
March 29, 2013

SB 1666, power, special interests and your right to know

Sen. Jack Latvala walked fast. The look on his bearded face was determined. He was preoccupied, on a mission.

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Matt Walsh
March 1, 2013

The Economics of Blackmail

For all those Tea Partyers chafing over Gov. Rick Scott's switcheroo to accept Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid spending in the state, sometimes you just have to take ipecac.

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Matt Walsh
February 15, 2013

Businesses don't pay taxes; consumers do

Business tax cuts and corporate-recruiting incentives will be prominent policy issues for the Legislature this year.

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Matt Walsh
February 1, 2013

$2,500 won't do it; abolish the system

The cynical view is this: Florida Gov. Rick Scott has turned out to be just like the others — another narcissistic politician who lusts for power and will do whatever it takes to buy votes with government payoffs.

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Business Observer Staff
February 1, 2013

Revenue is only half the equation

Your assessment of America's challenges in the next few years are spot on.

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David W.
January 25, 2013

Broken: The merit retention system

What began as an attempt to protect the state's court system from corrupt judges has led to politicized fights over retention and defacto lifetime appointments for judges.

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Do not call it Obamacare

Common core: Don't do it

The nightmare of Obamacare

Referring to your column in the June 14 Business Observer...

Sorry, not enough people have died yet

How the Florida Gators' defense managed to stymie FGCU ... for 25 years

The unintended consequences of Dodd-Frank

Bernanke, we hate to admit, is fueling Florida's growth

Internet tax far more than a fairness issue

SB 1666, power, special interests and your right to know

The Economics of Blackmail

Businesses don't pay taxes; consumers do

$2,500 won't do it; abolish the system

Revenue is only half the equation

Broken: The merit retention system

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$300K Bradenton EDC contract up for vote in Manatee

27 Gulf Coast companies ranked among fastest growing in Southeast

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