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Opinion

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 27, 2007
How to destroy a fairy tale

Government, and too many citizens, are ready to kill a great story.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 20, 2007
Bergman: Coach's Corner

Conflict. Just the mention of the word can conjure up any number of very negative emotions and feelings for most people. Argue, fight, stress, anxiety, anger, frustration, and pain are but a few of the words that often come to mind when people are asked what they think of when they hear the word "conflict."

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 6, 2007
The Capitalist

Our survival is not automatic. What we do will determine that.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 6, 2007
Rauch: Investing

The stock market has discounted all the negatives. So the 'momentum market' will continue its upward march.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 6, 2007
Walsh: REVIEW & COMMENT

It's the morning after. The more you dig into the tax-reform legislation adopted in the special session, the sleazier it looks. It's as predicted - a legislative, leadership failure, in spite of the tax rollback and tax cuts.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 8, 2007
Lou Lasday: Can't manage if can't measure

Corporate quantification isn't just batches of dull numbers, it's measurement for decisions and your corporate future.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 8, 2007
George Rauch: Bull market discounts bad news

Despite all of the obvious economic dislocations, the stock market has a mind of its own. For now, as the saying goes, 'the trend is your friend.'

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 8, 2007
Deborah Martohue: Impact-Fee Explosion

To put it bluntly, Florida has an impact-fee crisis. On average, impact fees in Florida are some of the highest in the nation with no cap in sight.How did these fees jump so dramatically in the last two to five years?

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 8, 2007
Matt Walsh: The road to ruin: Letting FDOT build our highways

While Gov. Charlie Crist (our favorite shooting target) is traveling to the Middle East to continue laying the foundation for his run at the Republican vice presidential nomination and, after that, the presidency (don't laugh), Southwest Florida's transportation needs on Interstate 75 from Tampa Bay to Collier County are a prima facie example of how and why all road building and the government transportation departments should be abolished and privatized.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 1, 2007
Sowell: War of Words

It has long been recognized that those on the political left are more articulate than their opponents. The words they choose for the things they are for or against make it easy to decide whether to be for or against those things.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • May 25, 2007
Thompson: Impact of high taxes

The Gulf Coast's economic future is in our hands.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • May 21, 2007
Walsh: Gulf Coast Economy Ailing; Cut Taxes Now

Jobless claims are rocketing upward all along the southwest coast of Florida. In Lee County, they're up 130% (to 1,742) from a year ago April. In Charlotte and Collier counties, they're up 112% (to 435, 625, respectively). In Manatee, they're up 83% (to 652), and in Sarasota they're up 68% (to 910). After hitting a low in 2006, unemployment rates are rising.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • May 21, 2007
Lasday: Give More by Offering Less

It's the newest and most exciting strategy taught at top graduate business schools.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • May 11, 2007
Aysegul Timur: Where are the jobs?

Southwest Florida's economy has benefited from population and income growth. Expect Gulf Coast counties to continue generating service-related jobs in the years ahead.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • May 11, 2007
Matt Walsh: Invoke the Lemon Law: Take back Crist

Crist has it wrong. The insurance industry is not the enemy. The enemy is the state. How could it be any more obvious? When the state's largest property insurer is the state itself, there is nothing more that needs to be said. The "market" didn't create Florida's insurance-pricing troubles; the state did.

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