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Florida Housing Availability Leading the Nation
Florida has roughly half the population of California but more vacant homes ready to be sold. In fact Florida has more immediately available vacant homes, over the one out of every six in the state, then any other state in the country.

Pro-rail forces launch fierce counterattacks
Opposition forces deny reports of talks with Scott camp. Forces loyal to High Speed Rail used Twitter, Facebook, protests, and chants again this week to mount a fierce counterattack on the Governor-held city of Tallahassee, according to witness reports.

32 Deemed Unhip as Day of Rage Engulfs Tampa
At least 32 people were declared unhip for “not getting it” on high speed rail at a protest rally Monday that preceded a wave of flaming of Facebook and Twitter posts.

Seminole Heights
Declares “No Douche Bag Zone”
If you have been waiting for McDintons North to open up your hopes have been dashed because the Seminole Heights neighborhood has declared itself a no douche bag zone as of today.

Vegetarianism Outbreak Prompts Health Officials Into Action
An out break of vegetarianism in Florida is serving as a warning from local officials to residents on the silliness of political correctness.

Tampa Bay’s Stubborn 12% Unemployment
Florida’s job market is sickly, diseased, dying, clinging to life like a zombie is undead. But at least things are barely measurably better in the sunny paradise of Tampa Bay.

Hillsborough Economic Development Administration Under Construction
Florida’s job market is sickly, diseased, dying, clinging to life like a zombie is undead. But at least things are barely measurably better in the sunny paradise of Tampa Bay.

Affordable Housing on the Rise
Tampa and seven other dynamic progressive metro areas hit new highs in affordable housing at the end of 2010 promising a great new year full of opportunity.

Hillsborough to Super Size Economic Development
Hillsborough county heard a presentation Tuesday on the county’s issues and opportunities on attracting new business as they finally start to make small cosmetic efforts on addressing the devastated economy.

Housing Crisis  Averted

Naysayers recoil into your dark holes because there is no denying the housing market is strong.

Chamber Partnership Offers Mortgage Assistance Plan
With half the Tampa Bay area mortgages in negative equity “The effective and dynamic growth business model of the Florida economy needs just a little nudge right now” Vince McKay of the Tampa Bay Chamber Partnership told Florida Legislators.

Florida Senator Finds How to Balance State Budget
Florida State Senator Bill Maxim (R-South Tampa) has a new untapped and growing tax revenue source so strong it will balance the state budget. “We must look for new revenue sources, which we have found now, to avoid drastic cuts to our pork barrel spending,”

Economic Development Committee Opens New Business
A New Hard Rock Cafe will open at the site Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Tampa within three months.

83 Degrees Magazine Receives Community Excellence Award

Hit hard More Foreclosure Aid is Coming to Florida
Federal aid is coming to assist in the purchase and rehabilitation of foreclosed homes.

Special Guest Columnist
Robert TruBlows

Sarasota Annoys Hillsborough Economic Development
Hillsborough lost out to Sarasota in the competitive game to lure Merchant Services Firm "High Risk Charge" planned 120,000 square foot facility.

Quickly Scott Reveals His Real Agenda
My Word, Governor Rick Scott has been sunshine Florida’s Governor a few weeks and he is well on his way to creating ore controversy then the last three good old boy Governors combined.

After Years of Trying Rail Fails
Evil Rick Scott has put a stake into the heart of the corrupt and bleeding heart of high speed rail in the sunshine state. Now all is left for the HSR is its death throes of whining, finger pointing, history rewriting and out right lies with heavy does of self-delusion.

Rail Defeat Hurts Super Region Cluster Plan
A tattered sign along a desolate stretch of I4 announces drivers are passing the “future downtown of Orlampa.”

Cluster Tampa Bay
A long time ago a young man pondering a job with the dynamic publicly traded company Data Tech in Clearwater called me to learn about Tampa Bay.

Insights from three veterans on Florida’s Economy
Troubled by the appearance of a devastated hopeless economy, shell shocked housing market, and huge unemployment, three brainy trendy and perky persons without any real business experience shed light on where the Florida economy is heading in 2011.

Can Florida Nurture Industrial Clusters into Economic Growth
As the world competition for jobs, especially living wage jobs, grows more cutthroat, can Florida keep up or even prosper?

A Tale of Two Clusters
St Pete’s economic development strategy has an odd and uninvited advocate, BP, courtesy of the worst oil spill in American history.

High On High Speed Rail
 A roundtable cabal of high speed rail supporters gathered this week at the Greater Tampa Bay Chamber Partnership offices to ponder strategies to get the deal complete in the face of voter rejection and loss of political support in Tallahassee.

High Speed Rail Afoot Without The State
Governors Rick Scott’s ill-advised, unapproved and down right unhip rejection of the idealist high speed rail stunned supporters of the project who feel entitled to whatever they want. 

Pessimists Persist
Admittedly it is no surprise that Leading Florida’s’ annual State Survey shows a majority of our residents believe the state is worse off this year.
 

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