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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • August 12, 2005
Fighting Fakes

From Rolex watches that look like the real thing to 7FAM jeans, companies stop copycats the only way they know how: in court. That puts IP law in a growth mode.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By 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.

  • Opinion
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 17, 2012
Bird is the Word

Dan Duquette is one of eight MLB executives on the Gulf Coast. His job could be the most challenging of them all.

  • Strategies
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • May 22, 2020
Restaurant chews on ways to survive, make it through summer

Sarasota, Florida-based Mattison’s Restaurants and Catering has reopened following the COVID-19 shutdown but owner and chef Paul Mattison sees a long, difficult and uncertain road ahead.

  • Travel-Tourism
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • February 5, 2016
Tax holidays? Or tax elimination?

Imagine you're the governor or a legislator. The state budget analysts come to you and say: “Good news. We're going to have a surplus this year between $800 million and $1 billion.”What would you do?

  • Opinion
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • January 10, 2025
Sarasota nonprofit CEO on quest to visit every national park across US

Harvest House CEO Erin Minor says seeing one national park made her want to check out them all.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • November 29, 2019
Well-respected real estate firm refreshes brand to prepare for years ahead, enhance current edge

Sarasota-based Michael Saunders & Co. honed in on the company’s key attributes and added more vibrant colors and patterns to the firm’s look.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • November 30, 2012
The Forecloser

Naples attorney Todd Allen created an avalanche of positive press when he foreclosed on a Bank of America branch. It's a case study in media relations that could be lucrative.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 2, 2004
Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr: Why Libertarians Aren't Whacky Cranks

A common accusation against libertarianism is that we are unnaturally obsessed with tracing social and economic problems to the state, and, in doing so, we oversimplify the world.

  • Opinion
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • June 3, 2023
Legislature goes big and bold

It took 25 years to achieve the Holy Grails of tort reform and universal school choice. Florida will be better off because of both landmark laws.

  • Opinion
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 31, 2013
Rinse and repeat

A pair of entrepreneurs hopes to make good, for a second time, on an auto racing business. The risks, however, are thornier this go-around.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Rod Thomson |
  • April 13, 2012
Capitol Chatter: April 13

In government vs. government, it's taxpayer vs. self

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 10, 2022
Woman faces decades in prison for defrauding bank for nearly $600K in PPP funds

52-year-old woman pleads guilty to falsifying loan papers and inventing fake businesses to cash in on COVID relief

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 9, 2020
President Trump appointee tours area manufacturing facility

Air Products operates a 300,000-square-foot plant in Port Manatee.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 23, 2018
Market spotlight — Sarasota/Manatee Industrial market shows robust activity

Industrial vacancies shrinks to 2.8% in Sarasota/Manatee market

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • March 14, 2014
Pay attention

Adam Hall says the technology exists today to personalize learning for each student. He's launched Nervanix to do just that.

  • Industries
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 23, 2016
Hotel deals flourish on Gulf Coast

Last week in this space we addressed the seemingly endless appetite investors and developers appear to have for apartments along the Gulf Coast.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • March 4, 2016
Rail heads

A group of artists creates model railroad landscapes that end up inside the homes of celebrities and financiers who pay tens of thousands of dollars to run their model trains.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 2, 2016
'Coming together'

Plan for development at Sarasota's former Quay waterfront site is gelling, and site work is expected in 2016.

  • Strategies
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 26, 2024
Longboat Key condo sells for $21 million

The 11,000-square-foot combined waterfront unit is the largest condominium sale in Sarasota County history.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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