March 19, 2024

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| 11/18/2015

Rising rent, medical costs eat up gasoline savings

We're gotten a break on gasoline and utility costs this fall, but higher rent and medical care have eaten into the savings, according to federal data released Tuesday. [Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel]

UF's HiPerGator 2.0 among the world's most powerful supercomputers

The University of Florida is the home of the most powerful supercomputer in the state, the most powerful university supercomputer in the Southern U.S. and the third-fastest university supercomputer in the country, according to the latest world rankings. Full story is here.

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How bread-winning women are driving alimony reform

Alimony is still heavily weighted toward men paying women. Only 3 percent of around 400,000 alimony recipients are male. Now that women are paying alimony more often, they are getting involved in advocating for change. "It’s unfair for men to pay it, and unfair for women to pay it. But women are much more outraged by it," said Ken Neumann, a founder of the Academy of Professional Family Mediators. Read the full story, here.

Bank of America: Tops by size in Florida but tiny by satisfaction, say surveys

Bank of America may be first in market share in Florida banking but it ranks last among big banks in customer satisfaction, a case of the Too Big doing Too Little for Too Long. [Source: Tampa Bay Times]

Treating flyers well is bad for airlines’ business

The airline industry recently undertook a wide-ranging study of passenger satisfaction. The results make for sobering reading. The study concluded that there is no correlation between customers’ happiness and an airline’s commercial success. [Source: The Economist]

ALSO AROUND FLORIDA:

› State approves purchase of $1.3 billion in bonds to pay for Crystal River nuclear plant closure
Florida utility regulators Tuesday approved a plan to issue $1.3 billion in bonds to cover Duke Energy Florida's costs for the closure of the Crystal River nuclear power plant in Citrus County.

› UF seeks venture capitalists to scope out Florida
David Day wants to add Florida to venture capitalists’ GPS. Even better, he would like them to know a lot more about the University of Florida and Gainesville.

› Florida Legislature Likely To Avoid Controversy Ahead Of 2016 Elections
The Florida Legislature will convene its regular legislative session in January, a couple of months earlier than usual. Lawmakers will likely seek to quell their differences so they can put up a united front ahead of the 2016 elections.

› Software firm may bring office, jobs to Gainesville
A New Jersey software company is interested in opening a Gainesville office that over eight years could create 140 jobs paying an average annual wage of $55,000, according to applications for tax credits.

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