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Opinion

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  • January 19, 2007
Walsh: Talk about an insurance disaster

Our new governor and speaker just want to be liked. Their prescription: 'make,' 'mandate,' 'require.' And this will help?

  • Opinion
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  • December 22, 2006
Rod Thomson: Economic optimism in the trenches

Gulf Coast business leaders in industries across the region expect 2007 to be a year of healthy economic growth.

  • Opinion
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • December 8, 2006
Lou Lasday: Meet your new ad deptartment

Create the "insider" track with the right compensation plan.

  • Opinion
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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 3, 2006
Thomson: Cut taxes now and everyone will win

Charlie Crist's proposed tax cuts deserve a good look outside the narrow box of: "How will we pay for them?" In case the 25 years of growth since Reagan wasn't enough, Alabama shows the way.

  • Opinion
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  • October 27, 2006
Walsh: If we stop growing now . . . we die

Matt Walsh explains why anti-growth and managed-growth policies are a death sentence for prosperity.

  • Opinion
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  • October 6, 2006
Lou Lasday: Brand loyalty is a two-way street

Marketers want customers to be loyal, but are they loyal to their customers?

  • Opinion
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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 6, 2006
Thomson: 2050 plan is a killer

Sarasota County's 2050 plan is causing Schroeder-Manatee to considering giving up. It's a model for how not to govern.

  • Opinion
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 22, 2006
Thomson: Federal pay twice the average worker's

The average federal wages and benefits are now double those of the private sector. This happened under the Republicans' watch. Why?

  • Opinion
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 7, 2006
Thomson: Impact fees a threat to future of Gulf Coast

Escalating impact fees will undermine new construction and economic growth.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 18, 2006
Walsh: Build private expressway from Tampa to Naples

Here's a big task for the next governor: Bring together the appropriate players to create a private-sector financed, constructed and operated six-lane toll-expressway that connects east Hillsborough County to Alligator Alley - running north to south, with tributaries running east to west (see map, page 7).This transportation corridor will be crucial to the future movement of traffic and the continued vibrancy of the economy along the entire southwest coast of Florida.

  • Opinion
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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 11, 2006
Lasday: Value is more than price

Since you will rarely win the war on price, help the customer believe in the superiority of your offering.Lou Lasday, an independent marketing adviser residing on Longboat Key, creates action-oriented strategic marketing initiatives for Gulf Coast emerging companies.

  • Opinion
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • August 4, 2006
Matt Walsh: Save Our Homes should be repealed

Sometime in the next two weeks, a Gov. Bush-appointed committee will begin meeting to figure out what, if anything, should be done to change Florida's infamously discriminatory Save Our Homes amendment - the amendment that is driving property taxes beyond tolerance for so many of Florida's part-time property owners and the amendment that, a decade after its adoption, has become a spreading cancer across Florida's economy.The conclusion and recommendations should be clear: It should be repealed.

  • Opinion
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  • Adam Hughes
  • July 20, 2006
Governor candidates fit the mold: hackneyed

Judging from the surge in daily e-mails from Florida's gubernatorial candidates, the calendar must be closing in on the September primary.Please, someone call the Spam Patrol.It's thick.

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  • Adam Hughes
  • July 17, 2006
Lasday: Sell Now - And Later

The idea that marketing ends when the sale is actually made is a myth. True marketing takes constant effort.

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  • Adam Hughes
  • July 6, 2006
THE CAPITALIST: Disintegration

Revealing how terrorists' finances are tracked is reminiscent of the Fall of the Roman Empire. Romans lost their sense of duty and loyalty.

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