Florida Business News
- Chamber report: Florida’s businesses need more mathletes
If you want one of Florida’s most in-demand jobs, you’re going to need math skills. While “numbers-heavy” fields such as accounting and auditing are on the list, so are nursing, trucking and real estate sales.
- After steady declines, Florida gas prices skyrocket overnight
After a week of steady declines, the average price of gas in Florida jumped 14 cents.overnight. The average price of gas in Florida now tops $4 a gallon, again.
- Publix No. 4 on list of most trustworthy grocers in the U.S.
Publix might be the No.1 grocery store in the hearts of many Floridians but it’s No. 4 nationally when it comes to trustworthiness — down two spots from last year and three from the previous year.
- Many downtowns ban outdoor drinking. One Florida city is expanding it
Letting people walk around downtown with an alcoholic drink in hand — a rarity in Central Florida — was a bold gambit for St. Cloud. But five years later, the city says the move has been so successful that it is doubling down.
- Developers got city land for affordable housing in Little Havana. Is it a good deal?
In his final act before leaving office last year, longtime Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo quietly put together a complex, multimillion-dollar deal to provide public land in East Little Havana to three developers.