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Guest AuthorJune 15, 2015

At 9:30 a.m. June 4, special guests rang the New York Stock Exchange opening bell signaling the market’s daily opening. In 1956, a 10-year old launched the tradition as the first guest to ring the bell. Leonard Ross won a television quiz show answering questions about the stock market. On this more recent June morning, […]

Guest AuthorJune 11, 2015

NOTE: This was written by Jesse Panuccio in response to a column that appeared earlier on ContextFlorida.com and SaintPetersBlog.com and written by Dale Brill, “Hint to presidential candidates wooing Florida — it’s still the economy.” Florida’s economy has witnessed a remarkable turnaround after being one of the hardest hit states during the Great Recession. The […]

Guest AuthorJune 11, 2015

Here in Florida, manufacturing takes on many forms. Computer and electronics production, chemical, aerospace engineering – those are just a few of the sectors where our state’s manufacturers excel. There is one major factor – aside from the tenacity of Florida’s workforce – that has fostered such a diverse and flourishing manufacturing industry: international […]

Guest AuthorJune 11, 2015

Here in Florida, manufacturing takes on many forms. Computer and electronics production, chemical, aerospace engineering – these are just a few of the sectors in which our state’s manufacturers excel. There is one major factor – aside from the tenacity of Florida’s workforce – that has fostered such a diverse and flourishing manufacturing industry: international […]

Guest AuthorJune 10, 2015

Amid the flotsam of a journalism instructor’s desk at the end of a hectic academic year – strewn business cards, papers never picked up by students, memos, meeting notes, neon pink paper clips and half a pack of Ice Blue breath mints – lies a stub of a burned-out candle. “Every journalist has talismans,’’ says […]

Guest AuthorJune 10, 2015

I’m sure if I listened hard enough, I could hear my 15-year-old self yelling at me right now. When I was 15, I wore black skirts, combat boots and about 900 black rubber bracelets to school; let’s not even discuss what I’d wear to alternative clubs to watch Suicidal Tendencies and slam dance. I valued […]

Guest AuthorJune 9, 2015

Serving as Indian River Country Tax Collector while also owning a small family business, I have a unique perspective on taxes. I collect them and pay them, both as an individual and as a business owner. And I see the direct impact taxes have on businesses and the economy. As both a tax official and […]

Guest AuthorJune 9, 2015

This is a story about pediatric cancer clusters in Florida. It begins in Durham, N.C., at Duke University, where David Banks is a professor in the Department of Statistical Science. In 2013 Banks was the new editor of “Statistics and Public Policy,” a journal of the American Statistical Association. In early February, Banks gave a […]

Guest AuthorJune 8, 2015

This is a story about pediatric cancer clusters in Florida. It begins in Durham, N.C., at Duke University, where Dr. David Banks is a professor in the Department of Statistical Science. In 2013 Dr. Banks was the new editor of Statistics and Public Policy, a journal of the American Statistical Association. In early February, Banks […]

Guest AuthorJune 7, 2015

During the 2015 special session, a controversial topic involving Amendment 1 funding entangles a push to purchase land south of Lake Okeechobee in the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA). Extreme elements of the environmental movement have made it sound as though the simple purchase of one property will “save the Everglades.” If the Everglades ecosystem is […]

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Jesse Panuccio: Florida’s economic turnaround story was not written by chance

Tom Feeny: Pass TPA to increase trade, expand economic opportunities

Tom Feeney: Expanded opportunities in Florida depend on House approval of trade legislation

Rick Brunson: A journalist’s life snuffed out reminds us to ‘Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way’

Catherine Durkin Robinson: Ten reasons why students benefit from uniforms in school

Carole Jean Jordan: Federal tax reform is key to small business success

Florida Department of Health failing to respond to credible reports of cancer clusters

Alan Farago: Florida Department of Health failing to respond to credible reports of cancer clusters

Amendment 1 Everglades restoration money more complex than just buying land