Florida lost more than 38,000 businesses last year and more than 1.1 million hard working Floridians are unemployed. The Florida Chamber of Commerce has a multi-point plan to change all of that in 2010. While government doesnt create jobs, the Florida legislature can, and should, do everything in its power to send a strong message to entrepreneurs that job creation is job one in the upcoming legislative session.
The South Korean government and Space Florida are launching discussions that could put Space Coast technicians to work in the high-speed rail industry.
Soon-Man Hong, deputy minister of South Korea's Ministry of Land, Transportation and Maritime Affairs, is meeting in Tallahassee today and Wednesday with the state aerospace industry board.
Attorney General Bill McCollum's first order of legislative business is to go after attorneys -- and he's hoping the third time will be a charm.
It's one in a series of tort-reform initiatives that will pit business interests against the trial bar at the 2010 session.
Topping McCollum's list of priorities is a bill that would limit the Attorney General's Office from entering into contracts with private attorneys to represent the state.
WASHINGTON -- Reaction to the horror at SeaWorld, a nightmare seldom seen outside Peter Benchley's imagination, has run the exhausted gamut.
"Kill. The. Fish." was one talk-radio host's suggestion. "Save the whale" has been the sentiment of animal lovers, including the victim's family. So goes life in the Land of Twitter.
WASHINGTON -- Peter De Vries, America's wittiest novelist, died 17 years ago but his discernment of this country's cultural foibles still amazes. In a 1983 novel, he spotted the tendency of America's therapeutic culture to medicalize character flaws:
WASHINGTON -- Thursday's health policy "summit" comes at a moment when, as happens with metronomic regularity, Washington is reverberating with lamentations about government being "broken." Such talk occurs only when the left's agenda is stalled. Do you remember mournful editorials and somber seminars about "dysfunctional" government when liberals defeated George W. Bush's Social Security reforms?
As politicians position themselves for the 2010 elections, sure as the sun comes up in the morning, the ones who hold office will try to use this legislative session to attract attention and lure as much support as they can.
Creating jobs will be the focus of much of the 2010 legislative session.
Here's a look at the omnibus bill from Sen. Don Gaetz's Select Committee on Florida's Economy (draft 4-01009A), which would aid Florida employers in job creation, with particular emphasis on smaller businesses.
CORPORATE TAX: Gov. Charlie Crist wants to lower the business tax from 5.4 percent to 4 percent. Business leaders say that's a good start, but more can be done.
UNEMPLOYMENT TAX: Under a deal struck by Republican legislative leaders and leading business groups, lawmakers hope to delay most of the pain for two years.
A few weeks ago President Barrack Obama announced his plan for NASA and boy was it a shocker!
After promising -- twice -- during his campaign to preserve Americas space program, the president demonstrated an unfortunate lack of vision for the future of manned space flights. He proved his rhetoric was as hollow as his promises -- mere attempts to woo the people of the Space Coast so that he could win their votes for his election.
