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Scott PowersJune 4, 2018

Palm Beach billionaire real estate investor Jeff Greene has made it official, filing to enter the Florida governor’s race as a Democrat. As first reported in Sunburn, Greene, 63, filed his paperwork to open a campaign account late Friday, and the Florida Division of Elections posted it Monday morning. He has not yet made a […]

Jim RosicaApril 21, 2016

POLITICO, the primarily online political news outlet, has been granted $205,000 in tax credits to expand its California operation. And while one commentator lambasted the move, a trio of journalism ethicists applauded the company’s decision to apply. POLITICO, which already has a presence in California, has a five-person Tallahassee bureau and political writer Marc Caputo based in South Florida. (There […]

Shannon NickinsonMarch 3, 2016

In the Pensacola area, more and more women are starting businesses of their own. Forbes reports that one-fourth of all businesses in the country are owned by women and that a rising number of women-owned businesses are topping the $1 million mark. Nationally women own 36 percent of businesses. In the Pensacola metro area, 38.5 […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 8, 2016

Pity Martin Shkreli’s mother. Don’t you know she just wants to snatch that boy bald? You know Shkreli, right? The 33-year-old brat-turned-hedge-fund-fraudster who bought a cheap generic drug and raised its price to the stratosphere and then rolled his eyes at a congressional committee this week? Yeah, that one. And, if you’ve somehow missed him […]

Mitch PerryOctober 12, 2015

Avik Roy, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and opinion editor of Forbes, has joined the Marco Rubio presidential campaign. “@Avik Welcome to the team! Glad to have you on board,” Rubio tweeted on Monday morning. Earlier, Roy tweeted to his followers that he was now on Team Rubio. “No candidate expresses—and embodies—the American dream better […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 23, 2015

The aging of the sales workforce is expected to create a glut of open sales positions in the next five years. The recession resulted in many sales jobs being held open and it created a gap between experienced sales people and the rest of the sales force. New sales people just weren’t being hired to […]

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Jeff Greene enters Governor’s race

POLITICO granted tax credits to expand in California

Shannon Nickinson: More women are starting businesses, helping local economies

Linda Cunningham: Martin Shkreli’s mom ought be snatching him bald

Avik Roy now working for Marco Rubio campaign

William Steiger: Will millennials fill expected flood of open sales positions?