Independent News‘Business’ Archives
Buzz: GB Police Chief resigns
Gulf Breeze City Manager Buzz Eddy announced this afternoon that Peter Paulding has resigned as the police chief, effective Jan. 12. Paulding has served the city for the past 10 years.
TEAM Santa Rosa update
TEAM staff is continuing to work with representatives from Project Vortex- a company that could bring in excess of 700 jobs to Santa Rosa County. We are currently working to help them qualify for state incentives that will make Santa Rosa County an even more attractive place to bring their jobs. [...]
US Airways expands into Pensacola
US Airways announced today that it will expand service for its customers in Pensacola, Fla. by launching daily, nonstop service to Reagan National Airport following the closing of its slot transaction agreement with Delta Air Lines. The new flights, which begin March 25, are the next step in US [...]
Tax Scam: The Florida Real Estate Connection
Source: Florida News Connection By Les Coleman.. MIAMI - The Miami Herald reports that Florida is the number one state in the country for international residential real estate sales, with almost one-third of the nation's foreign-backed property transactions. Most of the deals are in cash. [...]
Unemployment down for Florida, still above national avg
Florida’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in November 2011 was 10.0 percent, the lowest since May 2009 when it was also 10.0 percent. This represented 926,000 jobless out of a labor force of 9,228,000. The state’s unemployment rate was down 0.4 percentage point from October 2011 and was [...]
Santa Rosa Dems speak out on Gulf Power hike
Letter to the Editor: The Rich Just Keep Getting Richer: Santa Rosa Democrats Oppose Gulf Power Rate Hikes Santa Rosa's Democratic Executive Committee opposes any new rate increase for Gulf Power and urges the Public Service Commission to require the company immediately reduce rates in line with [...]
BP settles with blowout preventer manufacturer
Oil giant BP has agreed a settlement with contractor Cameron International, designer and manufacturer of the he blow-out preventer on the Deepwater Horizon rig. Under the agreement, which settles all claims between the firms, Cameron will pay BP $250m, that will be added to the $20-billion trust [...]
Buzz: Business Challenge has overflow crowd
The Studer Business Challenge had booked the DIB meeting room for its orientation meeting tonight. By 5:15, the room was so packed that they moved the entire meeting into the big hallway on the first floor of the Rhodes Building and commandeered every available chair they could find - Studer [...]
ECUA finalize deal with ESP
In response to an Emerald Coast Utilities Authority’s (ECUA) Board directive, the ECUA recently finalized a ten-year compressed natural gas (CNG) agreement with Energy Services of Pensacola (ESP) As part of the agreement, ESP will construct a fast-fill CNG station on ECUA property located at [...]
Pensacola Business Challenge Orientation is Tonight
Any future entrepreneurs or businesses who want to participate in the Pensacola Business Challenge are invited to a free orientation tonight at 5:30 p.m. at the Rhodes Building located at 41 N. Jefferson St. The orientation will include more information on the Pensacola Business Challenge. The [...]
State Attorney clears TDC
State Attorney Bill Eddins has cleared the Escambia County Tourist Development Commission of any Sunshine Law violations regarding a series of meetings held with hotel owners on the bed tax and the structure of tourist marketing. Read 4958_0001
Trojan man under attack
An antitrust investigation to determine if an unlawful monopoly exists in the condom industry was back on track after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said that Church & Dwight, whose Trojan brand condoms have a 70% share of the market (proving one size fits all), must [...]