Jim Turner

December 09, 2021 | Daily Business Review

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and Florida Power & Light Co. plan to use FPL's Cape Canaveral Clean Energy Center in Brevard County as they conduct manatee rescues, recover carcasses, do health assessments and move forward with a short-term feeding trial.

By Jim Turner

3 minute read

December 09, 2021 | Daily Business Review

FIFA's site-inspection team recently finished its final round of potential host-city visits.

By Jim Turner

3 minute read

December 08, 2021 | Daily Business Review

"Folks called Florida a low tax state. Unfortunately, it's also a low benefit state, meaning that the Floridians who pay much of their income to taxes, they don't see the improvements in affordable housing, they don't see the access to social safety nets, health care," one Democratic representative said.

By Jim Turner

5 minute read

December 02, 2021 | Daily Business Review

Florida should see annual funding for highways and bridges increase by $649 million as part of a more than $1.2 trillion federal infrastructure bill…

By Jim Turner

4 minute read

December 02, 2021 | Daily Business Review

"If you think about the act of going to a house of worship, for most, it functions very much like a restaurant," the bill sponsor said.

By Jim Turner

3 minute read

November 30, 2021 | Daily Business Review

Promoting Florida as "greener pastures" for law-enforcement officers, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday teased a plan for salary increases and bonuses…

By Jim Turner

4 minute read

November 29, 2021 | Daily Business Review

Gov. Ron DeSantis touted Florida's third-quarter tourism numbers, which exceeded totals in the pre-pandemic third quarter of 2019.

By Jim Turner

3 minute read

November 19, 2021 | Daily Business Review

Gov. Ron DeSantis touted the new laws as the "strongest piece of legislation that's been enacted anywhere in the country" and said Florida is "respecting people's individual freedoms."

By Jim Turner

5 minute read

November 17, 2021 | Daily Business Review

With marketing focused primarily across the U.S., the state's tourism-marketing agency Visit Florida recorded an estimated 91.5 million visitors in the first nine months of 2021, up from 60.2 million in the first nine months of 2020, which included the massive global closures due to the pandemic.

By Jim Turner

4 minute read

November 11, 2021 | Daily Business Review

In 2020, Trump won 15 of the state's 27 congressional districts. Under the draft proposals, it appears the Trump win total would have been 16.

By Jim Turner

4 minute read