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By Laura Labovitz Mayor Ed Braddy delivered his third annual State of the City Address, a hopeful and forward-facing speech, on Wednesday, January 20th. The Mayor was flanked by interim City Manager Anthony Lyons, and the city’s General Manager for Utilities, Ed Bielarski. The hour long address, held at the Gainesville Police Department’s Hall of...

University of Florida Health leaders broke ground in December on a new full-service, freestanding emergency room in a heavily populated area southwest of Gainesville, providing patients with access to fast, high-quality emergency care close to home. Located on Southwest Archer Road near Tower Road, west of Interstate 75, the new UF Health Shands Emergency Center...

With growing demand for entry-level public relations talent, the Gainesville Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association (FPRA) is recruiting area businesses to be hosts for its 2016 FPRA Gainesville Chapter Shadow Day on Thursday, March 10, 2016. The deadline for businesses to register to participate is Thursday, February 25. Shadow Day is an opportunity...

North Florida Regional Medical Center announced recently that it has been recognized as a 2014 Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in the United States. NFRMC was recognized as part of The Joint Commission’s 2015 annual report, America’s Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety. The hospital...

By Ron Wayne “Comfortable” and “walkable” are two words that quickly come to developer Ralph Conti’s mind when asked to describe what people will experience in Celebration Pointe. Conti is creating a mixed-use development of stores, apartments, offices, a movie theater, a hotel and restaurants, adjacent to Interstate 75 between the Archer and Newberry road...

By Ron Wayne The epicenter of Gainesville’s retail sector is not only expanding in a huge way but renovating and upgrading, as well. The northern side of Archer Road going west from SW 34th Street to Interstate 75 has long been the destination for the region’s shoppers and restaurant patrons, thanks to the late Clark...

Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation, a biotechnology company conducting human clinical trials of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapies for the treatment of rare eye diseases, and the BCM Families Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on eradicating Blue Cone Monochromacy (BCM), recently announced a collaboration to develop an AAV-based gene therapy for the disease. Blue Cone Monochromacy,...

If you’re under constant stress and can’t lose weight, there might be a protein to blame. In cell and mouse model experiments, University of Florida Health researchers have discovered that chronic stress stimulates production of betatrophin, a protein that then goes on to inhibit an enzyme involved in fat metabolism. Those findings were published this...

There are few times that we as business owners and managers have an opportunity to stop and reflect on our achievements. In reality, most that I know set high goals and then expect to achieve them leaving little opportunity for celebration. Exceeding expectation is the expectation. For me, I recently had one of those rare...

“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...