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What you need to know about Florida today
› Everest campuses in Florida to be put up for sale
Everest University’s 10 Florida campuses, including four in the Tampa Bay area, will be sold as part of a deal with the U.S. Department of Education that effectively dissolves its parent corporation, Corinthian Colleges.
› As Northeast Florida ages, experts say senior services to be addressed
Florida’s population is getting older every year, and Jacksonville is no exception. Between local Baby Boomers reaching their Golden Years and retirees flocking to Florida, the state added about 400,000 more seniors since 2010, according to Census data released in late June.
› Portable storage units present a recession-proof opportunity
Father and son team Jerry and Brian Herring founded Herring Systems, which does business as Go Mini’s Portable Storage, in 2009. Despite the recession, their business has seen revenue increase about 17 percent each year.
› Gainesville big-data-analysis startup with global reach to expand
When Kevin Blighe rides a train across Europe on a conference call with a client, you might not guess that he’s working for a successful startup based in the heart of Gator Nation. Blighe is one of about 25 contractors for Creative Bioinformatics Consultants, a young company rooted in Gainesville which provides big-data analysis for biology lab experiments.
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