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  • By 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Matt Walsh: Save Our Homes should be repealed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has become a spreading cancer across Florida's economy.The conclusion and recommendations should be clear: It should be repealed.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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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • February 24, 2006
Low-Ender

Warren Hickernell is profiting while working against the tide. 'I really see my job as preservng the low-impact mom-and-pop hotels.'

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Janelle Makowski |
  • January 9, 2004
Fun Again

Merger and acquisition activity picked up in 2003 after a bad year in 2002. Some predict 2004 will be even better.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 18, 2008
Broken Faith

Many entrepreneurs struggle with entrusting others, even top employees, with company secrets. Jordan Fishman is one who did trust, only to suffer disastrous consequences.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • June 20, 2023
Sarasota-Bradenton airport supports 15% more passengers this year

The uptick in passengers has prompted a new terminal expansion that broke ground in March.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 31, 2023
Tampa architecture group opens center

AIA Tampa Bay's new facility was designed using adaptive reuse principles and a focus on sustainability.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • July 13, 2023
Sarasota foster care and children's nonprofit names new CEO

The announcement came after an eight-month search.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • March 22, 2023
Michigan credit union, after acquiring local bank, rebrands Tampa Bay branches

Five former Pilot Bank locations have reopened under the Lake Michigan Credit Union banner.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 3, 2023
Bishop Museum names new CEO

Andrew Sandall will take over the role in March.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • January 18, 2023
Tampa venture capital firm adds three partners

Florida Funders has promoted Saxon Baum, Michael Kadow and Ryan Whittemore.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • May 2, 2023
Tampa health care IT company promotes president to CEO

Michelle Jaeger joined DAS Health in 2021 as the company’s COO.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 19, 2022
Tampa ad agency welcomes new creative director

David Smail joins PPK and will handle its Bridgestone account.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 7, 2022
St. Pete hospital welcomes new CEO

Sally Seymour, a former executive at HCA Florida Trinity Hospital, will lead HCA Florida St. Petersburg Hospital.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 17, 2022
20-year legal executive joins Empath Health

Christy Hendricks most recently served as the chief legal officer at OU Medicine.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 18, 2022
Hospitality firm promotes veteran staffer to newly created executive role

Jess Hayden will serve as Tampa-based McKibbon Hospitality’s vice president of operational excellence.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 19, 2003
Judge Chastised for Speaking to Paper (Tampa edition)

The Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission recommended Dec. 8 that Broward Circuit Judge Robert Lance Andrews be reprimanded for talking to a news reporter about one of his cases.

  • Law
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 12, 2009
PSCU Financial offers iPhone apps

St. Petersburg-based cooperative PSCU Financial Services plans to make it easier for its credit union members to attract that iPhone or iPod touch set

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 19, 2009
PSCU Financial offers iPhone apps

Apple iPhone users are changing a lot of industries, including the world of mobile banking.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 12, 2010
Albritton collars new practice at Phelps Dunbar

Former U.S. Attorney Brian Albritton has joined the Tampa office of Phelps Dunbar LLP as a partner and will join the firm's regional white-collar crime practice.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 24, 2010
Rise of the engineer in fibromyalgia battle

Fibromyalgia is a painful subject to anyone afflicted by it. Now a Clearwater company believes it may have a new solution to the chronic disorder

  • News
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