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Florida is much safer than Washington D.C.
Dear Mr. Osgood: The only logical way to look at murder rates is homicides per capita. Cherrypicking a total deaths number without reference to the number of residents in a state is foolish at best and disingenuous at worst. Florida was ranked 27th in the United States with 5.0 deaths...
Nick Saban Will Return To Be The Next Florida State Seminoles Head Coach in 2025
When you have a legacy such as Nick Saban does in college football, you will always find yourself around the game of football. It shocked the world when Saban decided to retire from coaching in January. While Saban is 72, his impact on college football remained consistent, and he was still coaching at a high level. With Saban still around the game, joining the College GameDay crew, he will end up finding the urge to coach again in 2025.
2024 Sea Turtle Nesting Season Update
It’s the middle of August and the beaches of Manasota Key are adorned with turtle nests galore! After all, Manasota Key does host the densest sea turtle nesting on Florida’s Gulf Coast. As of August 19th, there were 4,620 loggerhead, 122 green, 1 leatherback and 1 Kemp’s ridley nests on the 14 miles of Manasota Key that Coastal Wildlife Club (CWC) volunteers monitor daily during sea turtle season.
Entrepreneur invests millions into 'no senior left behind' model
Young twenty-something newlyweds Kris and Chelsea Chana made something of an unusual home choice after their 2011 honeymoon to Staniel Cay in the Bahamas. Upon returning to Florida, the Orlando natives moved to Port Charlotte, where they got into the senior living industry. They got so into it that, after buying, gutting and renovating what was a shuttered 12-bed assisted living home, a $450,000 project, they actually moved into the facility themselves. Chelsea was 21 and a new University of Florida grad. Kris, also a UF grad, who walked away from a career in insurance and financial planning — too boring, he says — was 23. “Chelsea learned how to crochet, I learned how to cook and together we made it work,” Kris Chana says.
Secretive Naples' exec on how to build a $3B medical device business
Reinhold Schmieding could easily be a braggart. The Naples entrepreneur has a lot to boast about, much of it attributable to Arthrex, a medical manufacturer focusing on sports medicine and less invasive surgery products through the motto of “helping surgeons treat their patients better.”. Schmieding, born in Michigan and...
Farmer's Market Forecast Saturday
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Farmer’s Market weather should be quiet for the Market hours. Saturday thunderstorms are more likely to pick up in the later afternoon and not as widespread as Sunday. Sunday storms could start midday and be more widespread. Sarasota Farmer’s Market is located in the heart...
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