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Should businesses be penalized for hiring undocumented immigrants?
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Headlines for Friday, July 30, 2010
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Friday, July 30, 2010 Signs have been up, but now it’s official. Just days after the Jacksonville Jaguars and EverBank signed a stadium naming-rights deal, the team has a new sponsor, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, this time for its practice...
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Friday, July 30, 2010 by Max MarbutStaff Writer
The Downtown Development Review Board of the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission consists of nine members – architects, planners and Downtown property owners – who review projects which, if implemented, would change the way Downtown looks.
Past agenda items have covered the spectrum, from... |
Friday, July 30, 2010 by Max MarbutStaff Writer
‘It’s not about perfection’
Shannon Miller is a busy woman. She always has been.
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Friday, July 30, 2010 Jacksonville Jaguars training camp begins today, yet when the players hit the practice fields adjacent to the newly minted EverBank Field, they should see a few new signs out of the huddle. The team and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida officially announced Thursday that the health care provider has secured the naming rights of the practice facilities, now...
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Friday, July 30, 2010 by Karen Brune MathisManaging Editor
Julie Klapstein is CEO of a 300-employee company that is a joint venture of five organizations and operates nationally.
It didn’t start out that way.
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Friday, July 30, 2010 from staff
EverBank, based in Jacksonville, reached a deal this week with the Jacksonville Jaguars to buy the naming rights to Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, now EverBank Field.
The five-year, $16.6 million agreement restores a naming sponsor to the facility, which was Alltel Stadium in a 10-year, $6.2 million partnership until it expired after the 2006 season.
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Friday, July 30, 2010 by Keith Laing The News Service of Florida
FROM THE CAPITAL
Once favored to handily win their respective party’s nominations, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum and Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Kendrick Meek could be running out of time to catch up to their outsider opponents, a new poll suggests.
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Friday, July 30, 2010 by John Kennedy The News Service of Florida
FROM THE CAPITAL
A Leon County Circuit judge struck from the November ballot on Thursday a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at exempting Florida from the federal health care overhaul, calling the measure placed by the Republican-ruled Legislature “manifestly misleading” to voters.
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• In other JCCI events, IBM Chief Economist Phil Swan joins a special edition of the Issues & Answers forum, called “Recession & Recovery - A Fortune 100 View.” It’s noon Aug. 18 at JCCI.
• In other JCCI events, IBM Chief Economist Phil Swan joins a special...
• Swan also speaks to the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce Trustees the afternoon of Aug. 18.
• Swan also speaks to the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce Trustees the...
• “For What It’s Worth - Your property, your taxes and balanced city budgets” is another Issues & Answers lunchtime event Aug. 26 at JCCI. Duval County Property Appraiser Jim Overton is the speaker.
• “For What It’s Worth - Your property, your taxes and balanced city...
• St. Vincent’s HealthCare and MinuteClinic, the retail health care division of CVS Caremark, are working together. St. Vincent’s Primary Care family physicians will serve as medical directors for seven walk-in medical MinuteClinics in CVS pharmacy stores in Jacksonville, Macclenny, Orange Park and St. Augustine.
• St. Vincent’s HealthCare and MinuteClinic, the retail health care division of CVS...
• Single-family home prices in Jacksonville fell 32.8 percent between the first quarters of 2007 and 2010, and dropped 7.2 percent between the first quarters of 2009 and 2010, reports the Fiserv Case-Shiller Indexes. Fiserv calls for a drop of 6.9 percent by next year’s first quarter. Jacksonville fared worse than the U.S., where prices dropped 28.7 percent from 2007 to 2010, rose 2 percent over the past year and are predicted to fall 4.9 percent by next year. “The stabilization of residential real estate markets will take many years,” said Fiserv economist David Stiff.
• Single-family home prices in Jacksonville fell 32.8 percent between the first quarters...
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