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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 7, 2004
Sarasota County loses ground

For the first quarter of 2004, the county faced big declines in single-family, residential/alteration,multifamily and pool construction starts and values.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 10, 2003
Alternative Minimum Tax:Congress Stealth Tax

TAXESIn 2000, an estimated 1.5 million taxpayers were subject to the tax. By 2010, the tax will nab 33 million taxpayers.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 31, 2003
Aberrant Attorney Fees (Sara/Mana)

The Sarasota city staff projection of the cost of hiring staff attorneys strikes public and private attorneys as fairly outrageous. Here's our independent analysis.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 21, 2004
Coffee Talk (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: Infinium Labs Inc. of Sarasota releases prices and early results of E3Creative Tampa Bay unveiled a study entitled: "The Young and the Restless: How Tampa Bay Competes for Talent."

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  • May 21, 2004
High Tech Signage

Ken Goldberg and partners are introducing a new technology that helps retail sales while appealing to the American consumers' penchant for television.

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  • By Jay Brady |
  • February 4, 2010
GOvernment Digest 2/5/10

A look at governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
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  • By Frank Knautz |
  • December 14, 2012
Is there a future for community banks?

After the recession caused multiple community bank failures, local banks face continued challenges as they try to rebound.

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  • By Frank Knautz |
  • December 14, 2012
Is there a future for community banks?

After the recession caused multiple community bank failures, local banks face continued challenges as they try to rebound.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 4, 2013
New Structures

Neil Simon and Stephen McKenna Jr. launched their commercial construction firm in late 2011. Good timing.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 21, 2011
Accountability U.

Rick Scott sent letters last week to Florida's university presidents, and they weren't love letters. He wants evidence they are producing results.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 28, 2013
Gov. Rick Scott's Medicaid Remarks

Feb. 20, 2013

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  • By George Rauch |
  • June 3, 2011
The pace of the economy is not accelerating

Will the market go up, or will the market go down? Or will the government figure out some other way to manipulate the market and call it something besides “QE3”?

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • August 30, 2013
Market Leader

Naples is one of the hot spots of residential real estate on the Gulf Coast, attracting developers and builders.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • June 8, 2012
Healing Banks

Banks on the Gulf Coast are finally showing signs of recovery. Profits and loans are rising.

  • Finance
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  • By George Rauch |
  • October 19, 2012
We need an un-consolidation of power

How the Fed came to exist, and why its power is one of the most dangerous forces in our economy today.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • June 17, 2011
Steady Aim

The Hull family's engineering firm didn't make the same mistakes as some of its Gulf Coast competitors. Instead of chasing more lucrative private development, it stuck to government work. It's paid off in the recession.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 20, 2012
Cup of Jon

The Gulf Coast might be the next hotspot for a percolating battle between an industry giant and a competitor trying to regain supremacy. It should be an aromatic fight.

  • Industries
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 3, 2012
Donut Dough

There's serious growth brewing in the business of fried dough and ice cream. Dunkin' Donuts wants a big bite.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 27, 2012
Good Wood

Ann Jackson has learned lessons to last several lifetimes in the nearly 40 years she has run her family business. One key lesson: Hire slow, but fire fast.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 4, 2012
Top Salespeople: The Earner

A part-time job became a multimillion-dollar sales career for Cheryl Warfield. And nearly four decades into it, she still has big goals.

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