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Betty Castor, former state senator and Florida Education Commissioner, has joined Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar to launch the Center for Education Policy, an advocacy center for education.

In 1986, entrepreneur Rick Kearney left his job as a systems engineer for IBM, moved to Tallahassee and converted his own house into a homeless shelter.

You’ve heard it before: “My life is on my smartphone.” What you probably haven’t heard is this: If your employer provides that laptop, BlackBerry or iPhone, then you should have no expectation of privacy.

You’re trying to keep premiums at a minimum, but does your business have enough insurance protection?

As the legislative battle over oil drilling heats up, Dave Rauschkolb has called on fellow opponents to form a line in the sand —literally — to stop it.

Patents. Trademarks. Copyright. Learn how to protect your intellectual property.

Al Wenstrand, president of Florida’s Great Northwest, reflects on the military’s impact on the 850 region’s economic health.

He’s a hard-nosed litigator with a soft spot in his heart for the Special Olympics, a high-profile dealmaker who represents corporate giants such as Wal-Mart, Costco and McDonald’s — and “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis.

We would like to see some state economic development effort focused on the Northwest Florida area. Santa Rosa is a border county competing with a very aggressive neighbor state — Alabama — and we feel that the effort in attention and dollars from Tallahassee could be better. Perhaps this could involve enhancing tax and other incentives from the state level to assist local economic development groups in competing for new businesses — particularly in the aerospace and defense area? Gov. Charlie Crist answers.

While the current national recession has taken its toll on us here in the Panhandle, just like it has hurt people throughout Florida, I am confident we will ultimately weather the storm and, for a variety of reasons, weather it better than many other parts of the state.

The economic slump hasn’t done much for your business, your employees haven’t received raises, and morale is pretty much going down the drain. What do you do to lift spirits and encourage your employees to keep working hard and going strong?

In this climate, the small and medium-size businesses that make up the bulk of the Northwest Florida economy have the most to lose.

How can Florida businesses find out how to tap into stimulus money coming to the state? Gov. Charlie Crist answers.