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By Mark Singletary I know it’s not a big deal around North Central Florida, but I have to wish everyone a Happy Mardi Gras. Fat Tuesday is February 9. It’s in my DNA; my family roots go way back to the original Acadian French settlers in Louisiana and Mardi Gras will always be important. There...

“To be involved in renovating the space for this new clinic is an honor. Creating the right environment for the clinic to function at maximum performance is our goal. We believe that patients will receive a level of care they have never before experienced and that this will have a positive impact for each person...

By Ron Wayne Fans of Jeanne Bunting’s repurposed jewelry will be glad to see her return to the GFAA Winter Fine Arts Fair at Tioga Town Center next month. This will be her sixth time selling at the fair, which this year will be held Friday through Sunday, March 4-6. She will be among 115...

Alachua County schools will ask voters to renew a one mill assessment for schools in Alachua County. The school system will be asking voters to renew the one mill initiative that is currently funding critical programs and services in local schools. At its meeting on January 19, the School Board of Alachua County approved a...

Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV) continues its growth trend with record passenger traffic to finish calendar year 2015. According to numbers reported by the airlines, 18,562 passengers flew out of the local airport last month. The annual total came to 217,355, more than two percent above 2014 and 892 passengers more than the previous record set...

By: Ben Doty, CFA, Senior Investment Director, Koss Olinger & Company If you have been around long enough, then you know that financial markets are not very steady in the short-run. They fall down, as they did between May and August of this year, when the price of the S&P 500, an index of large...

BioTork, LLC, a Florida-based biotechnology company has created a sustainable, GMO-free, vegan omega-3 oil produced from algae. This omega-3 oil will be launched in the nutraceutical, feed and food industries worldwide as a direct replacement to fish oil. Until now, the performance of algae has been either improved through genetic modification or rely on wild...

The number of tech companies moving to Innovation Square continues to grow with the arrival of a UF professor’s large-scale data processing and security company. Tera Insights, previously located in the Sun Center in downtown Gainesville, will relocate with an aim to attract more clients, create more jobs, expand its office space, and be closer...

By: Ron Wayne Who was frank and why will hundreds of people gather in downtown Gainesville in February because of him? Frank Karel, a University of Florida graduate, was a public interest communicator who worked for 30 years for groups like the Robert Wood Johnson and Rockefeller foundations. The frank conference (lower case and italicized)...

The City of Gainesville will be expanding the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), as part of the on-going Smart Traffic project beginning in 2016. Expanding the current system will require large concrete poles ranging in size between thirty and one-hundred feet in height in five locations.  These poles will allow traffic signals that are outside the...