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Around Florida
Icon: Carrie Meek
I made very good grades, and I was an athlete -- mostly basketball and track and field. During those days, women's sports did not have the kind of atmosphere that it has now. It was pretty much frowned upon outside of African-American universities.
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Published on 11/1/2006
Trendsetters - Nov. 2006
Rick Lind, University of Florida; Steve Kohler, Space Florida; Don Ariel, Raydon; James Takats, Mark Budd, Opinicus; Gary Langdon, Quadrant Software; Vince Virga, Skillstorm.
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Published on 11/1/2006
Recharging Florida Forever
Rising land prices and a flat budget have eroded the state's leading conservation program.
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Published on 10/1/2006
Surge
The number of African-American entrepreneurs is increasing rapidly in Florida. What the numbers say -- and a look at some entrepreneuers who are succeeding.
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Published on 10/1/2006
Loan of Contention
Students from Florida schools usually have among the highest rates in the country of defaulting on their federal student loans.
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Published on 10/1/2006
Sore Point
Mike Eidson, a veteran south florida product-liability attorney, wishes that when Floridians thought about trial lawyers, they'd think about guys like his friend Gary Pajcic of Jacksonville.
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Published on 10/1/2006
1031s: The Investment-Property Tax Shelter
More real estate investors are becoming familiar with the number 1031. That's the Internal Revenue Code that allows investment-property owners to delay paying taxes on a sale if they buy similar investment properties.
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Published on 10/1/2006
A Trip Through Cubicle Country
With about eight of every 100 workers employed at call centers, Jacksonville is no stranger to headsetwearers. But in June, Fidelity Investments drew attention after it announced a new call center.
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Published on 10/1/2006
Plastic - and Paper?
New electronic voting machines aren't perfect, and some people around Florida haven't given up on requiring a paper trail as part of the voting process.
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Published on 10/1/2006
Restructuring
The state's effort to help African-American entrepreneurs has suffered from paltry funding and a breakdown of accountability by the organizations set up to loan the money.
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Published on 10/1/2006
Trendsetters - Oct. 2006
Leila Jammal Nodarse, Nodarse & Associates; Miriam Lopez, TransAtlantic Bank; Abigail Bogan Ackerman, Bogan Supply Co.; Laura Kelley, Expressway Authority; Jan Risi, Independent Purchasing Cooperative; Tyra Tutor, MPS Group; Andrea Orr, Verizon Wireless.
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Published on 10/1/2006
Icon: Andres Duany
I'm from Santiago (Cuba). My family has been in that city since 1702. I'm the first male in my family not to live there. I feel at home in the Caribbean, which is one of the reasons I find New Orleans so interesting.
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Published on 10/1/2006
Rural Advantages
Growing businesses find plenty of room in Florida's rural counties.
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Published on 9/1/2006
Urban Advantages
Unique opportunities await businesses in urban locations.
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Published on 9/1/2006
Get to Know Florida
The state known for its sun and sand offers business opportunity, too.
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Published on 9/1/2006
Florida Fast Facts
Population, Economy, Location, Trade, Jobs, Technology, Finance, Defense, Education, Telecommunications, Quality of Life.
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Published on 9/1/2006
Roofs
Until the run-up in home prices, discussions involving construction of housing for lower-income people occurred pretty much out of the mainstream, among do-gooders, bureaucrats and the few developers who specialized in "affordable housing."
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Published on 9/1/2006
Hate In The Sunshine State
Florida trails only California in the number of organized hate groups.
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Published on 9/1/2006
The Admissions Squeeze
Students are finding it harder to get into the state's schools - and a crisis looms as the competition intensifies over the next five years.
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Published on 9/1/2006
Export Boom
Florida's exporters are riding a powerful wave of growth fueled by a weak dollar coupled with economic stability in Latin America.
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Published on 9/1/2006
The Battle For Your Money
Already well established as providers of financial products like CDs, money market accounts and mortgages, credit unions are trying hard to move even further into territory once dominated exclusively by banks.
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Published on 9/1/2006
Icon: T. Willard Fair
When I came in 1963 to this community,we had a small staff of three people and very few services.
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Published on 9/1/2006
Top 10 Reasons to Do Business in Florida
1. Leadership
Florida has a robust base of technology- driven businesses, with 19,838 high-tech companies employing 265,484 high-tech/high-skill workers, plus a significant and growing presence in many new economy sectors....
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Published on 9/1/2006
A Ready, Responsive Workforce Partnership
From the moment Cardinal Glass announced in October 2005 that it would be constructing a $22 million plant in Marion County--and that the plant would eventually bring some 200 jobs...
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Published on 9/1/2006
Living the Good Life
It's obvious in Florida that the place you like to play is a great place to live and work, too.
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Published on 9/1/2006
