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What you need to know about Florida today
DeSantis joins call to end health emergency
25 Republican governors sent a letter urging Biden to allow a federal “public health emergency” to expire in April. The emergency declaration was initially issued in 2020 and has been repeatedly extended. The letter said it has been extended until at least Jan. 11, though states believe it will be extended to April because they have not received notification that it will end. “We ask that you allow the PHE (public health emergency) to expire in April and provide states with much needed certainty well in advance of its expiration,” the letter said. More from the News Service of Florida.
9 charts that show how Florida has changed over 2022
When it comes to housing in Florida, one real estate agent says “it’s been a weird year.” The Florida of now is not the Florida of yesterday. The year 2022 illustrated stark increases in the cost of housing, the number of Republican voters and the number of monthly opioid overdoses. Other measures, like the unemployment rate, dropped. More from the Tampa Bay Times.
Florida Trend Exclusive
Construction underway for Leon County's $24-million business incubator
The 40,000-sq.-ft. business incubator, slated to be completed by 2024, will house 31 labs, including biology and chemistry, and flexible workspaces and a machine shop to build prototypes. Bill Lickson, previously executive director of the Tallahassee-based incubator Domi Station, is director of the NFIL. NFIL is designed to help technology companies that need specialized, dedicated research facilities to commercialize and grow their innovations. More from Florida Trend.
Miami, Tampa top home price increases
The Miami area had a 21 percent year-over-year increase, while the Tampa area had a 20.5 percent increase, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index. The Charlotte area was third-highest with a 15 percent increase. But the report, which provides data on 20 metropolitan areas, said home-price increases have slowed across the country. More from the News Service of Florida.
Enterprise Florida makes grants to 80 Miami-Dade firms
In 2022, Enterprise Florida Inc. consulted with 722 companies based in Miami-Dade, said TJ Villamil, senior vice president of International Trade and Development. The company has also made 80 trade grants to Miami-Dade companies in 2022 to support their export efforts. These grants have generated over $157 million in export sales, according to those companies. Delegates of the office of International Trade and Development at Enterprise consult with those companies. More from Miami Today.
Florida Foodie
‘Food nerd’ behind Red Panda Noodle goes deep talking cuisine
Eliot Hillis has thought a lot about noodles. Hillis recently started a new, noodle-focused venture with his long-time collaborator Seth Parker. The pair now operate pop-up restaurants. “(Noodles are) a vehicle for so many options,” Hillis said. “In much the same way that a pizza can have like an infinite number of combinations of toppings, you can have a noodle that’s expressed upon a myriad of ingredients and, depending on the time of year, this could be a cold noodle, it could be a hot noodle, this could be spicy or creamy or any combination of all of those things.”
» More from WKMG.
Rising Executives
Naked Ambition
“I was very driven by this idea of change,” says Jordon Johnson. “Your energy and your effort are the most valuable things you can bring to any relationship, any job, and the return on investment for me was pretty low (at GE), working on Microsoft Excel all day for a company that could probably move on really well without me. I would have definitely been a lot wealthier by staying there, but that wasn’t the payoff I was interested in.”
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