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Scott PowersNovember 21, 2016

As they prepare for the 2017 Legislative Session, Central Florida lawmakers are looking out for help for the emerging Advanced Manufacturing Research Center in Osceola County, the demise of the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in Lake Nona, and I-4 throughout the region. Those are things almost everyone in Central Florida’s delegation is examining. […]

Daniel TilsonFebruary 22, 2015

On behalf of ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, I want to thank you, especially you, Governor-elect Scott, for having me here. What can I say? Jobs are first, last and everything. Jobs. J. O. B. S. Create enough more jobs – the right kind – and drive down those ugly unemployment numbers, and you’re […]

Guest AuthorDecember 11, 2014

Florida’s unemployment rate is at 6 percent. It is hard to imagine a more deliberate focus on job creation than the state witnessed in the past four years. But what happens when we broaden the goal of economic development beyond job creation? In fairness, there is an obligation to demonstrate first why job creation is […]

Guest AuthorDecember 10, 2014

Florida’s unemployment rate is at 6 percent. It is hard to imagine a more deliberate focus on job creation than the state witnessed in the past four years. But what happens when we broaden the goal of economic development beyond job creation? In fairness, there is an obligation to demonstrate first why job creation is […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 7, 2014

In this election year, Florida Gov. Rick Scott is masquerading as the friend of the middle class. Who does he think he’s fooling? For going on 16 years, the Florida Republican Party has fiddled and belittled the middle class. It isn’t an act of God that’s destroying the American Dream; it’s petty, self-serving, greedy acts […]

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Advanced Manufacturing Research Center, I-4, Sanford Burnham, water quality, Pulse, on Central Florida lawmakers’ minds

Daniel Tilson: Florida GOP's secret 2010 post-election economic training

Dale Brill: Florida economy on a roll that isn’t sustainable

Dale Brill: Florida economy on a roll that isn’t sustainable

Stephen Goldstein: Wage gap between Florida men and women unchanged for 30 years