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  • November 21, 2003
Lou Lasday: Plan for Success

There are nine words a business owner must know to create a dynamite business plan.Lou Lasday, an independent marketing adviser residing on Longboat Key, creates action-oriented strategic corporate initiatives for emerging companies.

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  • November 14, 2003
Stephen Garber:Your Attitude is Showing

Garberprovides executive coaching for people and organizations.An attitude is a feeling or an emotional response to one's environment. Attitudes are affected by things such as work activity, people, facts, data, events,

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  • November 14, 2003
Growth Pays Its Way and More

Excerpts from a report on whether growth pays its way by Research economist James F. Dewey, of the University of Florida's Bureau of Economic.

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  • November 14, 2003
Letters to the Editor

This week's items: First, regarding the "Scorched Earth" letter to the editor, Mr. Schneikart, in my opinion, totally missed the point of the editorialGrowth does pay its way

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  • November 7, 2003
Llewellyn Rockwell Jr.: The Fallacy of Minimum Wage

Minimum wage laws are a violent imposition on freedom of association. In the long run, they harm all of society.Rockwell, is president of the Mises Institute and editor of LewRockwell.com.

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  • October 31, 2003
Dan Miller Show, Don't Tell

A company's visual image is important. How do you ensure a business has the right public image?

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  • October 24, 2003
Review and Comment: Corporate Subsidies Ignore the Unseen

It's welfare. Welfare of the worst kind - corporate welfare.It's yet another form of our munificent government redistributing your/our hard-earned wealth for one of their pet causes, which they disguise as economic boons to us all.

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  • October 24, 2003
The Schiavo Case: No Mercy in Florida

A lot is riding on this case. The sad truth is many practitioners of bioethics, medicine and law no longer believe that people like Terri Schiavo are fully human. A prescription for moral freefall?

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  • October 24, 2003
Scorched-earth rhetoric

A letter to the editor, from William Schneikart, a Largo trail lawyer, taking issue with Review Editor and Publisher Matt Walsh's Review and Comment article on Oct. 3.

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  • October 17, 2003
Lou Lasday: The Importance of Cross Selling

Lou Lasday is an independent marketing adviser who resides on Longboat Key. He creates strategic corporate initiatives for emerging companies. A career direct response executive, he has been a senior partner of a national advertising agency and served as

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  • October 10, 2003
Rauch: Is the Bubble Returning?

George Rauch, Longboat Key, is CEO of Bradenton-based General Propeller and a former Wall Street investment banker.No. The bubble never left. The above chart is interesting because it tells a story of the market's performance since 1920. Keep

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  • October 3, 2003
Democracy Gone Awry

New constitutional initiatives being considered for the 2004 ballet pose a threat to state employers.It's obvious too many people don't understand what a right is and isn't. Here's what a "right" does: A right confers no obligation on another. Afforda

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  • September 26, 2003
Tech Talk: Good Spam

Does spam deserve its awful reputation? It saves trees and gives the small business ownereasier access to consumers.

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  • September 19, 2003
Lou Lasday: Goodwill Marketing Play

Lou Lasday, an independent marketing adviser residing on Longboat Key, creates action-oriented strategic corporate initiatives for emerging companies. A career direct response executive, he has been a senior partner of a national advertising agency and se

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  • September 19, 2003
Banker of the Year: Jerry Williams

President and CEO Orion BancorpYes, Jerry Williams is a confident guy. Why wouldn't he be?Williams, 42, owns controlling interest in an $829 million bank holding company, Orion Bancorp.

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