Christine Jordan SextonOctober 27, 2022
8min0
There are 23,606 manufacturing companies in the state that together provide 418,000 jobs.
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Christine Jordan SextonOctober 27, 2022Christine Jordan SextonOctober 25, 20228min0
There are 23,606 manufacturing companies in the state that together provide 418,000 jobs.
Staff ReportsAugust 8, 2022
3min0
Coastal Cloud, an innovative technology firm, ranks No. 15 on Florida Trend’s annual list of ‘Best Companies to Work For’
Staff ReportsJuly 6, 2020
8min630
He asked to thank all of his colleagues, clients, supporters, and friends, and wanted you to know that he “had a good run, and wishes you a longer one.”
Jim RosicaMarch 20, 2018
5min565
After nearly an hour of discussion, a Constitution Revision Commission (CRC) proposal that would affect the state’s efforts to reduce smoking was postponed Tuesday. CRC member and House Speaker pro tempore Jeanette Nuñez, who filed the measure (P94), pulled it from the floor after several commissioners questioned its necessity. Tobacco Free Florida, the state’s tobacco prevention and cessation program, […]
Jim RosicaMarch 14, 2018
6min661
If passed, a proposed constitutional amendment to redirect dollars from tobacco-prevention efforts to cancer research would turn “a bad idea into a hard reality,” one opponent said Wednesday morning. Later that same day, however, the amendment’s sponsor deleted the section about cancer research funding. Longtime Tallahassee PR man Ron Sachs joined former Attorney General Bob Butterworth […]
Peter SchorschDecember 27, 2017
3min296
Few can disagree that Dr. Kiran Patel, Tampa’s prominent entrepreneur and philanthropist, deserves to be Florida Trend’s “Floridian of the Year.” The announcement came this week and will be featured in the magazine’s January issue. It should be noted that naming Patel as a man of the year, while well-earned, comes with no small degree of irony. […]
Peter SchorschJuly 20, 2017
5min386
Florida Trend released its 2017 Best Companies to Work for in Florida list this week and lobbying and regulatory law firm Meenan P.A. made the top-10 in the small companies category. Meenan was the highest-ranked Tallahassee-based company in the rankings and was one of only two legal-lobbying firms in the 2017 rankings. West Palm Beach-based […]
Peter SchorschAugust 29, 2016
10min383
When the dust settled after Florida’s 2014 elections, there was one clear loser: Florida’s trial attorneys. Here’s what I wrote in my column identifying the winners and losers of that election cycle: You know how sometimes there is a really sh*tty movie released that, despite the bad reviews and poor showing at the box office, […]
Peter SchorschAugust 22, 2016
8min461
They say politics makes for strange bedfellows, but it’s difficult to image a stranger pairing than Associated Industries of Florida and the state’s trial lawyers. But that is the suggestion of ace reporter Jason Garcia of Florida Trend. Few political journalists covering Florida politics are better at connecting the well-hidden dots of the state’s byzantine […]