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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • December 30, 2022
Medical fluid maker rolls with the punches as delays mount

Progress has been slow for Assure Infusions, a new health care supply company taking shape in Bartow. But its founder believes the payoff will be immeasurable.

  • Construction-Development
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 7, 2007
Big SPAC Attack

A Gulf Coast asset manager fancies an investment model popular overseas for quickly growing a business. His plan is backed by more than $100 million.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 7, 2007
A Grander Venture

The Tampa-based Florida Venture Forum has expanded its reach beyond the state's borders in matching venture capitalists with local companies.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 23, 2006
Home-care Rising

Aging boomers are becoming more and more focused on home and long-term care.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • August 26, 2005
Coffee Talk (Tampa)

It's a new world: Walt Smith, court administrator for the 12th Judicial Circuit that includes Manatee and Sarasota counties, is among the objectors to a long-awaited report that supports making court records available on the Internet.Alpert: You got me: Through illness and divorce, retired Tampa lawyer Jonathan L. Alpert says he has remained true to himself and his profession.This sand's gold: A recent sale on Indian Rocks Beach shows just how much investors prize beachfront on the Gulf Coast.Another warning: Pinellas Park bank analyst Richard X. Bove pooh-poohs affordability indices, which show skyrocketing home prices far outpacing tiny increases in personal income within hot real estate markets around the country.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 19, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week' items: Gov. Jeb Bush hasn't budged on his budget proposal to fund the state trial courts.Court becomes hazardous waste siteHenry Andringa will be interviewed today by the 6th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission for the seat

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 6, 2008
THOMSON: Sarasota vs. Lee? Unseemly.

Sarasota and Lee counties, and their municipalities, must avoid a bidding war for spring training.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 11, 2008
Sale to employees

Succession planning is a difficult task, but one company's recent employee stock ownership transaction may be the best solution in this economic environment, despite the costs involved.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 9, 2008
THOMSON: Survival Stories

The Gulf Coast economy is made strong by those who do not give up in tough times.

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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • April 23, 2009
The price for equality: You lose freedom

It's happening before your eyes every day, more than it has since the dark days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The takeover of your life by the Next New Deal.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 10, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: Senate confirms Judge CovingtonMaking tardiness a habit Sweating it out in Palma Ceia?

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 21, 2003
Fireworks Sales Halted

Stores who sell fireworks say a new Sarasota County ordinance will shut them down. Commissioners contend the sales are illegal.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 28, 2003
Real Estate Briefs

This week's items: Cortez Storage construction starts84 Lumber files plans to build Bradenton locationFlorida Studio Theatre buys former Theatre Works buildingSMR, DVA Sports planLakewood Ranch arena

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 29, 2003
Broker of the Year: First Impressions

Demand is rarely a challenge for broker David Stevens. Supply is the problem.David Stevens made a good first impression on the decision-makers at Toll Brothers Inc.The Philadelphia area-based luxury homebuilder first picked the principal partner at Na

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 11, 2003
Running Hot

A safety incident at Tampa International Airport offers the federal courts a fresh chance to clarify the rightsof whistleblowers in a deregulated airline industry.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 16, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: Tampa creditors' rights attorney Victor Veschio wants Hillsborough Judge Paul Huey's job.Yet another community bank has been organizing in Sarasota CountySwimming against the tide

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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.

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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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  • 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 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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