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Ritchie: Tight money stymies Mellow Mushroom pizza restaurant project in Mount Dora
A tangle of regulations and leftover troubles from the real-estate bust explains why investors who want to start businesses are stymied.
Lake Sentinel
Financial results of ‘cash for clunkers’ were harmful and also predictable
Like many government economic stimulus programs, what sounded like a beneficial government policy on the surface created disastrous results.
Independent Florida Alligator
State sticks another needle in the eye of jobless Floridians
Under the state Department of Economic Opportunity scheme, claimants would need to sign up with the online jobs database, Employ Florida Marketplace.
Orlando Sentinel
Stagnant unemployment shows weak recovery
The weak stream of new jobs means the nation has to decide if this is the "new normal," or if there are measures to improve the economy.
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Securing our future
The past year may not have been the greatest for South Florida’s economy, but it was a good year in terms of recovery.
Miami Herald
What will the Florida business environment be like in 2013?
The forecast is for a year of above-average growth fueled by population growth, home resales and new home construction.
West Volusia Beacon
Bradenton revitalization projects hold economic promise
The Downtown Development Authority and Realize Bradenton are leading this "place-making" economic development effort with a host of partners.
Bradenton Herald
On to the next cliff
The status quo will remain until public opinion coalesces around a true deficit- and debt-reduction strategy.
Panama City News Herald
Baby steps
Power Plant is delivering the jobs and, equally important, the successful small start-up companies that it was intended to attract and nurture.
Ocala Star-Banner
Effort to hire American workers is paying off
It appears that more Palm Beach County residents are being hired for hospitality jobs once given to foreign workers brought here for short stints.
Palm Beach Post
Holiday shopping trends show economy is wobbly
The retail shopping numbers so far indicate this was the weakest holiday sales season since 2008.
Daytona Beach News-Journal
New Year’s Resolutions
2012 may well be remembered as the year Cape residents saw some light at the end of the tunnel.
Cape Coral Daily Breeze
Don’t throw jobs over the fiscal cliff
The economy will have to start producing many more jobs before Florida and the nation reach the genuine turnaround point.
Palm Beach Post
Crystal River revitalization project
There’s been a big stir in Crystal River lately over a revitalization vision and master plan proposal championed by Commissioner Dennis Damato.
Citrus County Chronicle
Flagler's No. 1 challenge: Turn economy around
The Flagler unemployment rate is still the second highest in Florida.
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Turning the corner
South Florida took major steps toward making its economy more agile and forward-looking in 2012 to ensure that it can compete globally.
Miami Herald
Florida’s treasures need protection
Protecting our most vulnerable citizens and the state’s environmental jewels produced mixed record in 2012
Miami Herald

Letter To The Editor

Leaning on Fed for jobs is wrong approach

To quote your first sentence in this...

Tampa Bay Times
Nation can't afford to keep borrowing

Some frightening things have happened to the U.S. economy. The public debt has increased $5.2 trillion in the past 3½ years, an increase of...

Panama City News Herald
Four ways President Obama has failed US on the economy

Solutions to the hot-button economic issues of this campaign season – from saving Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, reducing the national...

St. Augustine Record
Adams: Short fishing seasons hurt the economy

Recently, we were fortunate enough to have a District 2 Congressional field hearing in Panama City. I proudly accepted the invitation from...

Tallahassee Democrat
Competition drives the economy

 

In a recent...

Tampa Bay Times
Economy is coming back thanks to timely Obama action

That’s when we started struggling. We had purchased a second home as an investment, but when the renters could no longer pay, we had to let it go...

News Press of Fort Myers

Op Ed

Who's to blame for economic malaise? Bush? Obama? Both, and the Federal Reserve Bank

BOTH recent administrations ran up the national debt and BOTH favored massive bank and industrial bailouts to the auto industry.

TCPalm
Let's debate America's shrinking middle class

A long and familiar list of concerns fuels Americans' discontent this election season: the economy, taxes, the deficit, health-care reform and on...

Tallahassee Democrat
President Obama's war on jobs

Under President Obama, more than 400,000 women have lost their jobs nationwide, and our unemployment rate has increased to 8.1 percent.
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Lockheed Martin marks a century

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Orlando Sentinel
Business principles should apply to government, too
Democrats Lack Sensible Energy Policy
Ideas About Aging Are Wrong and Costly
GOP Failed to Examine Romney Record
Report: Bank Fails Minority Neighborhoods
New Insurance Program Looks Promising
Birds of a Different Feather
Restore Credibility to Enterprise Florida
Competition Bringing Out Best in Florida, Texas
Citizens’ Insurance Proposes Pricey, Risky "Corporate Welfare"
Gov. Rick Scott: Medicaid Expansion is Bad for States
AARP: FPL Asks Too Much With Proposed 15% Rate Hike
Will Romney's choice of Paul Ryan help him win Florida?
What's in Florida's space future?
Can Florida's jobless rate get below the national average?
Does raising tuition at state colleges and universities help the institutions or hurt Florida's competitiveness among states for businesses seeking educated workers?
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100 years of income tax and controversy still rages
How legal weed might wash in Florida
Garment Workers Pay High Price for Our Cheap T-shirts
The insane position on 'never, ever' raising tax rates
Why Key West Residents Are Talking About Hurricane Sandy

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