Initiatives to Help Community Health Centers

Two causes all Americans can get behind are initiatives to improve our health care system and create jobs in a struggling economy. In an effort to accomplish both at once, President Obama announced that $600 million in stimulus money will go towards improving community health centers across the country.

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THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. [...]

Next Generation of Innovators

President Obama today helped launch a new campaign, “Educate to Innovate,” designed to energize and excite America’s students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). It builds on the President’s pledge that he would use his position to help encourage students to study and consider careers in science, engineering, technology, and innovation -fields [...]

Review Says Human Spaceflight Program Unsustainable

Floridians are deeply affected by what NASA does with the Space Program. The Kennedy Space Center affects jobs and tourism dollars.  Sure, everyone knows the space shuttle goes off from Kennedy Space Center and there are some amazing times to be had in the tourist attraction aspect, but we rarely stop to consider the amount [...]

Digital Domain Will Have A Special Effect On St. Lucie

On Monday night, the proposed Digital Domain animation studio project will go before the Port St. Lucie City Council for conceptual approval.The nuts and bolts of the deal are as follows $50 million in grants, bonds, land, and tax abatements for the company as incentives to locate their new studio here, five hundred $60,000 [...]

Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Cultivating Pearls

For more than 25 years, all attempts at culturing pearls from the queen conch (Strombus gigas) have been unsuccessful—until now. For the first time,novel and proprietary seeding techniques to produce beaded (nucleated) and non-beaded cultured pearls from the queen conch have been developed by scientists from Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (FAU/HBOI). With [...]

Using Social Media For Small Business

Using Social Media as part of your marketing strategy is all the rage. People are pell-mell signing up for Facebook and Twitter and sticking widgets and apps into their web site, but are those things working if you’re using them? And if your not using them how do you go about staring to and getting [...]

Cars Of The Future – Made In America

As part of the of the Administration’s commitment to jumpstarting the production of fuel efficient vehicles in America, Vice President Joe Biden today announced Fisker Automotive is re-opening a shuttered former GM factory in Wilmington, Delaware, to produce long-range, plug-in, electric hybrid vehicles. The Wilmington assembly plant was selected by Fisker Automotive for its [...]

St. Lucie Gets $500k Grant For Green Jobs

St. Lucie County’s Green Collar Task Force got a little ‘greener’ this week, thanks to a $500,000 state grant.
St. Lucie County and Workforce Solutions applied for and received the $500,000 in grant through the Business Competitiveness Council of Workforce Florida, Inc.’s WINGS (Workforce Innovative New Generations Solutions) program. The funds will be used for apprenticeship [...]

Obama Announces $3.4B Investment In Smart Grid

Speaking at Florida Power and Light’s (FPL) DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, President Barack Obama today announced the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history, funding a broad range of technologies that will spur the nation’s transition to a smarter, stronger, more efficient and reliable electric system.  The end result will promote [...]

Questions Surround St. Lucie Digital Studio

Recently, there has been some question about the state governmental going-ons regarding the amount of state moneys Wyndcrest Holdings will receive to open a 150,000 square foot digital production studio in Port St. Lucie next year.
According to a Palm Beach Post Investigation, an amendment was passed allowing Governor Crist sole authority to award $42 million [...]

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