The 850 Business Blog - Blog 2013

If you are reading 850 — The Business Magazine of Northwest Florida, you are interested in what is happening in the 16 counties that stretch from Pensacola to Monticello. Now we have established the 850 Business Magazine Group on LinkedIn,…

TALLAHASSEE — Senate President Mike Haridopolos on Wednesday downplayed claims by Florida business groups who contend jobless workers are gaming the unemployment compensation system to receive benefits. “There might be a small few that are gaming it, and that’s what…

TALLAHASSEE — An ambitious property insurance rewrite with everything including the kitchen sink(hole) has been filed and will get its first public hearing next week as lawmakers try again to reduce costs for the industry. From making it harder for…

Atlanta-based Vision Airlines is expanding its passenger service to several new markets in Florida, which includes adding 20 new cities to the routes it flies out of Northwest Florida Regional Airport (VPS), located on Eglin Air Force Base near Valparaiso…

TALLAHASSEE — House Speaker Dean Cannon said Wednesday he thinks it will be very difficult to cut taxes this year, agreeing in principle with earlier remarks by Senate President Mike Haridopolos. "If there's a way they can be reduced and…

TALLAHASSEE — In what likely will become fodder for upcoming lawsuits, a stinging federal report scheduled for release next week shows that shortcuts, mistakes, questionable technology and overall poor management led to the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Releasing…

TALLAHASSEE — With an empathetic nod to more than 1 million out of work Floridians, Gov. Rick Scott took office on Tuesday promising to alleviate the pain of joblessness by taking on its causes, an “axis of unemployment” made up…

TALLAHASSEE — At the end of a day of photo op pre-inaugural events, Gov. Rick Scott finally spoke Monday evening at a cocktail reception for Florida business leaders, who are starting to like what they hear from the Naples businessman.…

TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s unemployment rate jumped again in December 2009, to 11.8 percent — meaning there are 1,087,000 jobless Floridians out of a labor force of 9,180,000. Unemployment is up 0.3 percentage point from November’s rate of 11.5 percent and up…