Florida Business News

• Florida remains on a roll with 21,400 new jobs created last month

  The state’s jobs economy remained on a roll in October. About 21,400 new jobs were created and the unemployment rate remained the same as a month earlier at 3.2 percent.

• Near-record travel is forecast for Thanksgiving

  AAA is predicting 2.9 million Floridians will hit the road or head to their local airport, train or bus station to get out of town for Thanksgiving -- the most since 2005.

Celebration: The inside story

It took a decade of bureaucracy — both governmental and corporate — for Disney to create the New Urbanist town of Celebration. An inside look at a very complex process from a senior leader of the development.

First Lady partners with Volunteer Florida to make volunteering easier

If you are asking yourself how you can give something back this holiday season, or if you are part of a nonprofit that needs help, Florida’s First Family and Volunteer Florida are trying to make it easier for everyone.

Fentanyl kills more people in Palm Beach County than anywhere in Florida

Fentanyl deaths are on the rise in Florida, even as opioids kill fewer people each year. Fentanyl, a synthetic painkiller 100 times more potent than morphine, killed 2,348 people in Florida in 2018.

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