March 29, 2024

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› Creative Recycling Solutions named NASCAR Green Partner
Tampa-based Creative Recycling Systems has joined the NASCAR circuit to promote sustainable business practices. Last week, CRS was named NASCAR's newest Green Partner as part of the NASCAR Green initiative, which aims to not only promote sustainability within auto racing, but also educate fans and corporate partners about going green.

› Nontraditional approach pays off for real estate exec
Armando Diaz and his business partner Eduardo San Roman put the emphasis on higher commissions and lower overhead in their company.

› Banned in county, sweepstakes cafe tries its luck in Tampa
A new Internet sweepstakes café has opened in downtown Tampa, two months after Hillsborough County commissioners voted to abolish the businesses in other parts of the county. "They're like an amoeba," county Commissioner Sandra Murman said. "They'll rise and fall."

› March Madness a multisport spectacular in South Florida
It's March Madness and then some. While the rest of the country obsesses over college basketball, South Florida is about to embark on its own sports spring-tacular that is too big to contain with a single month or set of rules.

› Staged accidents plummet in Hillsborough after county crackdown on clinics
Often criticized as the epicenter of auto insurance fraud in the state, Hillsborough County is turning its reputation around with a new ordinance targeting the problem. "Since we passed the ordinance in September of last year, we have seen a 62 percent decrease in the number of staged accidents," County Commissioner Kevin Beckner said Saturday. The ordinance closed a loophole that allowed fraudulent clinics to operate without a license.

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Bitter-to-swallow cocoa costs force chocolate shops to raise prices
Bitter-to-swallow cocoa costs force chocolate shops to raise prices

Central Floirda chocolate shops are left with a bitter taste as cocoa prices hit an all-time high earlier this week.

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