April 23, 2024
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Florida police departments review policies, procedures and training
The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has prompted police departments around Florida to review their policies, procedures and training.
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Published on 11/25/2020
Florida Icon: Richard Lapchick
Director of the DeVos Sport Business Management program at UCF, Orlando; age 75
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Published on 11/25/2020
Floridian of the Year: Florida's non-profit sector during the pandemic
Fred Rogers said his mother told him that in times of trouble and despair to “look for the helpers.”
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Published on 11/25/2020
Settin' the Woods on Fire
It didn't generate big headlines, but an important organization has relocated its headquarters in Tallahassee.
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Published on 11/25/2020
Rising to the occasion
We are about to turn the page on 2020, and I think I can speak for all of us when I say that 2021 cannot come fast enough.
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Published on 11/25/2020
Skyborne and Gulf Coast State College team up for disaster technology center
Franklin County-based Skyborne Technologies has begun testing an aircraft that acts as a “mothership” that can deploy multiple drones from a single location.
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Published on 11/25/2020
Northeast Florida COVID-19 update
Outlaw Masks, started by Jacksonville entrepreneurs Carlos Gil and Reggie Williams...
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Published on 11/25/2020
State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota converts former library into Center for Advanced Technology & Innovation
State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota is working with local companies and economic developers to address workforce needs in the tech sector.
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Published on 11/25/2020
Historic investment in Baptist Health Care campus
The 50-acre site, the largest single investment in a life sciences facility in Northwest Florida history, is central to Pensacola's growing metro area and located along the I-110 corridor.
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Published on 11/25/2020
Publix opened13th in-hospital pharmacy in Florida
Publix in September opened its 13th in-hospital pharmacy in Florida with a branch in the Anderson Family Cancer Institute at Jupiter Medical Center in Jupiter.
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Published on 11/25/2020
Orlando Health, Advent Health step up investments in orthopedics
With a projected surge in joint replacements and other orthopedic surgeries among aging Baby Boomers over the next decade...
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Published on 11/25/2020
Advancements in COVID treatment
Miami-based Jackson Health System has opened a portable triage unit to isolate and treat COVID-19 patients.
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Published on 11/25/2020
Northeast Florida Hospital Boom
St. Johns County, the fastest-growing in Northeast Florida, has seen its population increase by nearly 40% to an estimated 264,672.
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Published on 11/25/2020
Stein Mart was on the ropes, and the pandemic finished it off
From the seed of a store his grandfather opened in 1908 in Mississippi, Jay Stein built Stein Mart — headquartered in Jacksonville — into a company that until this year numbered 281 stores, $1.2 billion in annual revenue and 9,000 employees.
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Published on 11/25/2020
Inez Long, Black Business Investment Fund of Central Florida
Helping 'as many small, minority and underserved businesses as possible.'
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Published on 10/28/2020
Katie Yeutter, Florida Chamber of Commerce
The chamber's No. 2 executive plays a key role during the pandemic.
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Published on 10/28/2020
Marlene Santos, Gulf Power
Managing through crisis comes with the territory.
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Published on 10/28/2020
Cammy Abernathy, UF
UF's engineering dean touts the advantages of a diverse student body.
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Published on 10/28/2020
Christina “Cina” Welch, FCCI
Rebuilding confidence after an abrupt leadership transition.
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Published on 10/28/2020
Kasey Kesselring has built Montverde Academy into an academic and athletic powerhouse
The 125-acre campus wasn't always bustling. When Kasey Kesselring arrived as the headmaster in the fall of 1999, the school had only 103 full-time students...
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Published on 10/28/2020
FSU Panama City will begin offering a doctorate in nurse anesthesia
Pending approval by the national Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs, which will conduct its review in January.
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Published on 10/28/2020
Florida has a growing list of restaurants catering to whiskey lovers
Yes, I can show you the way to the next whiskey bar. But it's not the dive that Jim Morrison and Bertolt Brecht mooned about in the last century.
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Published on 10/28/2020
Astronaut Nicole Stott is a Florida Icon
Retired astronaut, artist and director of the Space for Art Foundation, St. Petersburg; age 57
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Published on 10/28/2020
The pandemic hasn't slowed down Florida dorm-building by private companies
In July, Global City Development completed The One at University City, a $231-million, 1,244-bed private dorm across the street in Sweetwater...
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Published on 10/28/2020
