Jim Turner News Service Of Florida

December 05, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Insurance companies, for the most part, have been responsive to customers affected by two hurricanes that caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage in Florida this year, state officials said Friday during a roundtable discussion with industry executives.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

7 minute read

December 01, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Job one for the new head of Florida's business-recruitment agency is landing Gov. Rick Scott's request for $85 million in economic-incentive money.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

7 minute read

November 30, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The leader of Gov. Rick Scott's job-placement agency was recommended Tuesday to take over as president and CEO of Enterprise Florida, which continues to face stiff opposition from lawmakers over economic-development funding.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

7 minute read

November 21, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Florida has cut off incentive funding slated to go to one of the biotech centers lured to the state a decade ago because of failure to meet job-creation goals over three consecutive years.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

6 minute read

November 10, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Opponents of a solar energy ballot initiative that failed at the polls said they haven't decided whether to revive their rival initiative, which was waylaid nearly a year ago by utility giants in the state.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

9 minute read

November 03, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Opponents of a controversial solar-energy ballot initiative asked the Florida Supreme Court to again review the ballot language and to strike down the proposed constitutional amendment.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

8 minute read

November 02, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Florida may have prematurely demanded a $77.6 million refund from one of the taxpayer-backed biotech operations that a decade ago was supposed to help spark a research revolution in the state, an attorney for the struggling institute argued in a recently released letter.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

6 minute read

November 01, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Four major electric utilities have surpassed the $20 million mark in combined contributions to support a proposed constitutional amendment on solar energy.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

7 minute read

October 11, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Backers tout Amendment 1 on the November ballot as a consumer protection measure, but critics and editorial boards malign the effort as an attempt to hinder the development of alternative fuels.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

9 minute read

October 04, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Florida Power & Light, with an increased reliance on natural gas to generate electricity, got approval to buy a second coal-fired power plant that it intends to close.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

4 minute read