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City of Tallahassee Lowers Electric Rates
As another important measure to help residents and local businesses save money during these trying economic times, the City of Tallahassee Commission unanimously approved lowering electric rates for the third time in the past 12 months. Effective February 1, electric rates for residential customers will decrease by 3.5 percent while [...]
Bing Energy A Presenter At Annual Venture Capital Conference
published in the Tallahassee Democrat on Thursday, February 2, 2012 Bing Energy International is pitching its leading-edge fuel cell technology at the Florida Venture Capital Conference that started Tuesday and concludes today. Tallahassee-based Bing was the only company from Northwest Florida to be invited to the 21st annual conference, and [...]
Tags: Business Development, Clean TechEDC Chair Karen Moore: We are Ready for a Quantum Leap in 2012
(As appeared in the Tallahassee Democrat, Sunday, January 8, 2012.) New jobs are good. They are good for the companies that create them, the new employees and their families, the other businesses in the community, the nonprofits that benefit from corporate support, and on and on. Creating those jobs is [...]
Art Meets Science: New Facility A ‘Mecca’ for Collaborative Research
The Facility for Arts Research (FAR) — a 22,500-square-foot former cancer-research facility nestled on 5 acres in northwest Tallahassee — is the result of a new initiative from the Florida State University’s College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance. Perhaps the first facility of its kind in the country, FAR will [...]
Florida State University Named A Best-Value School
Florida State University was again named one of the best values in the nation by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance in the publication’s annual ranking of public colleges, moving up two spots to 18. The ranking highlights four-year schools that combine outstanding education with economic value. Kiplinger’s cited Florida State’s high four-year [...]
Scholarship Available for Export Marketing Plan Services
In partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration, Enterprise Florida, Inc. and the U.S. Commercial Service, the Florida SBDC Network is announcing a scholarship to assist qualified manufacturing small businesses in Florida who are “new-to-export” identify growth strategies through the development of customized Export Marketing Plans. For more Information, call [...]
City of Tallahassee Streamlines Permitting Process
The City of Tallahassee’s Growth Management Department recently began offering electronic recording of required permit documents. The service is available to projects needing permits within the city limits, and saves the applicant an extra trip to have the documents legally recorded. The new optional electronic recording services includes City Growth [...]
FAMU Named One of Most Affordable Colleges by JET Magazine
Florida A&M University continues to receive national recognition for its outstanding achievements. This year alone the historically black university has been named one of the top 100 national universities by Washington Monthly Magazine, one of the Best Colleges in the nation by Forbes Magazine, a Top Green College in America [...]
FSU Awarded $26 Million to Help Children Better Understand What They Read
More than a dozen Florida State University reading experts have been awarded a total of $26 million to help solve one of education’s most pressing, impenetrable problems: why some students may be able to decipher words on a page, yet still struggle to comprehend them. The money, awarded to the [...]
City of Tallahassee Returning $5.6 Million in Business Utility Deposits
On Dec. 7, the Tallahassee City Commission approved returning approximately $5.6 million in utility account security deposits to nearly 3,600 local businesses. City Commissioners will kick off the actual refund process Jan. 10, by personally delivering checks to local businesses. The commercial utility account refund process was designed to help [...]