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The Best Companies To Work For In Florida
Find out which 100 companies made the cut in the tenth annual Best Companies to Work For In Florida rankings. Winning companies were selected for their policies, practices and demographics. Randomly-selected employees at each firm also weighed in.
- Best Large Companies (250 or more employees)
- Best Midsized Companies (50 to 249 employees)
- Best Small Companies (15 to 49 employees)
- Featured Winning Company Profiles (sponsored)
Florida awards grants from oil spill settlement
A state-created panel is beginning to award millions that Florida received for damages related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico The board for Triumph Gulf Coast last week voted to give preliminary approval to $64.5 million in grants to expand aerospace and aviation operations in northwest Florida. In this news release from Triumph, there are updates about how the oil spill money distribution is going in the counties of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Bay, Wakulla and Okaloosa. Also read more at the AP.
Saying ‘yes’ to marijuana money, new bank comes to Florida
Foreseeing “a multi-billion dollar industry here,” the head of Seattle-based GRN Funds says his firm has come to Florida to offer banking services to the state’s medical marijuana providers. It already handles about $500 million in deposits for clients in the cannabis industry on the West Coast. [Source: Florida Politics]
Hops farming on the rise in Florida
Florida scientists have developed new growing methods to get the hops to grow in the state’s climate. It's working. As for the hops business in the state: the future is brewing up well. [Source: FOX 35]
Florida is still paying SunPass contractor, even after officials said they would stop
Florida has not stopped paying the SunPass contractor responsible for the tolling system’s outage, even after transportation officials said the state would suspend all payments. Since the tolling system malfunctioned during an update in early June, many SunPass users have had difficulty using the customer service website, call line and app, and have seen wrong charges posted to their accounts. [Source: Tampa Bay Times]
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› Opinion: Driverless cars could transform Jacksonville
Jacksonville, like most Florida cities, was built for cars. But now the county is filling up, driverless cars are on the horizon, express bus service is expanding and the benefits of walkability are becoming recognized.
› Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale to lay off 148 as parent phases out campus-based programs
The company that owns the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale has notified the state of Florida that it intends to lay off 148 workers through December amid a national phaseout of 30 campus-based programs.
› Powered by growth, Volusia/Flagler auto sales kick into overdrive
When sales of new cars and trucks declined nationally in 2017 for the first time in four years, the Volusia-Flagler area bucked that trend, logging new vehicle sales that rose nearly 5 percent to a record high of 40,736. And now, in 2018, area auto dealers are optimistic that they again can outpace the industry overall.
› Tampa International Airport ranked in top 10 for defense against cyber threats
Tampa International Airport was ranked this week as the 10th safest U.S. airport to go online without being hacked, but the ranking is not only about the place, but also about how savvy its travelers are.
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