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Central Florida Players - October 2011

Mike Vogel | 10/1/2011

» Steven P. Johnson will be the new president and CEO of Brevard's Health First hospital chain, succeeding the system's founder and top executive, Michael Means, who retires at the end of 2011. Johnson was president of hospital operations for SSM Health Care/St. Louis, a seven-hospital system in Missouri.

» Daytona Beach-based Innovation Research Engineering and Development, which makes vertical wind turbines, appointed veteran project manager Michael Moser COO.

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    Florida leads the nation in strict building codes, and the decades of hard work have paid off in the increasing number of homes and buildings that survive each time a hurricane slashes the state. But all those hard-won gains have been undermined by the explosion of growth along the coast.

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  • Enterprise Florida exiting

    The doors are ready to close on Enterprise Florida, the business-recruitment agency long targeted by state House leaders.

  • Seeking protection

    Three activist groups served notice to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that they intend to sue to force the agency to invoke Endangered Species Act protection for the ghost orchid.

  • State jobless claims decrease

    An estimated 5,155 first-time jobless claims were filed in Florida last week, a decrease from the previous week and below the average for the year.

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Radioactive roads? Florida has yet to submit application to EPA to start testing
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