Tallahassee Democrat (Tallahassee, FL) articles from July 2000

Tallahassee Democrat (Tallahassee, FL) archives from July 2000

Use these tips to manage anger.
July 3, 2000... Byline: Jeff Herring _The Law of Everyone. It is not necessarily wrong to get angry. You get angry, I get angry, all God's children get angry. It's what we do with our anger that makes the difference. _The Law of Stress. Although we...

Tallahassee, Fla., Community College Vice President's Career Flourishes.
July 5, 2000... Byline: David Hefner Jul. 5--Debra Austin stands in the window of her office overlooking Tallahassee Community College and motions with her arms to show how much the campus has grown in the 21 years she's worked there. "All of this...

Tallahassee, Fla., Transport Businesses Seek Relief from High Gas Prices.
July 5, 2000... Byline: Juana Jordan Jul. 5--Ronnie Griffin had to make a decision -- sell more than half of the trucking fleet he put together only two years ago or wait to see if gas prices dropped. He would sell. The cost of fuel was too high. ...

Only second woman in its history takes charge of bar association.
July 9, 2000... Byline: Nancy Cook Lauer She's come a long way from her first years of law practice in Tallahassee and even farther from the tiny town of Lacoochee where she was born. In New York on Tuesday, before a crowd numbering in the thousands,...

Forget finish lines and focus on the next event.
July 10, 2000... Byline: Jeff Herring There is a saying that goes something like this: Getting to the top is easy, the hard thing is staying there. There's a reason this is so true. It has to do with this interesting little quirk we humans have: Our...

Tallahassee, Fla., Film Society Brings Offbeat, Independent Movies to Area.
July 11, 2000... Byline: Mark Hinson Jul. 11--It doesn't get more French than Juliette Binoche water-skiing down the Seine on Bastille Day in Paris as fireworks explode into the night sky. That scene is one of the many memorable visual images in...

State Farm to Raise Home Rates in Some Florida Counties.
July 11, 2000... Byline: Rachel Sams Jul. 11--Wakulla County residents who have State Farm homeowners' insurance are looking at an average premium increase of 21 percent. Last week, State Farm Insurance received approval for an adjustment in...

Tallahassee, Fla., Engineering Firm Designs Bridges for Beauty, Strength.
July 12, 2000... Byline: Rachel Sams Jul. 12--Toledo, Ohio, is about to get a connection to the Big Bend -- one that will light up, change colors and, most importantly, keep cars dry. Designs for Toledo's Maumee River Bridge include four 200-foot-long...

Discount Grocery Keys Renaissance in Rural Florida Town.
July 12, 2000... Byline: Juana Jordan Jul. 12--When the Winn-Dixie on South Monroe closed two years ago, Town South Plaza died. Businesses in the center struggled to survive. And residents -- especially those who walked -- had only one...

Florida Governor Names Head of Welfare-Funded High-Tech Workforce Agency.
July 12, 2000... Byline: Nancy Cook Lauer Jul. 12--Gov. Jeb Bush on Monday picked Department of Management Services Secretary Tom McGurk to head a new agency charged with creating a more high-tech work force. The Agency for Workforce Innovation will be...

Tallahassee, Fla., Publishing Company Gets Contract to Produce Hardback Books.
July 14, 2000... Byline: Juana Jordan Jul. 14--Books about Harry Potter's latest adventures flew off shelves last week as soon as they were stacked. And because of the book's success -- it's estimated that more than 3 million copies have been sold...

Demand for Computer Training Grows in Tallahassee, Fla., Area.
July 15, 2000... Byline: Rachel Sams Jul. 15--If you drive past a Speed Limit 35 sign and then a Speed Limit 45 sign, you automatically know the 35-mile-per-hour zone has ended -- you don't need a sign to tell you that. HTML (HyperText Markup...

AME Church pierces the stained-glass ceiling.
July 16, 2000... Byline: Leo Sandon Last week's election of the Rev. Vashti Murphy McKenzie to the episcopacy of the African Methodist Episcopal Church proved newsworthy but not all that surprising. The first woman bishop in the history of the AME Church...

Find motivation in emotions.
July 17, 2000... Byline: Jeff Herring Experiencing strong emotions is not uncommon. What is uncommon is applying these emotions to motivate you to change and grow. Having said that, here are five emotional states that can change your life, if you act...

Employee Claims Florida University Favors Black Men for Faculty Positions.
July 19, 2000... Byline: Bill Cotterell Jul. 19--A Florida A&M University journalism professor, whose long-running tenure dispute sparked a debate over the comparative value of academic theory and practical newsroom experience, is suing the university,...

Florida Convicts Women of Defrauding Medicare with Home Health-Care Service.
July 19, 2000... Byline: Bill Cotterell Jul. 19--Two Franklin County women accused of turning a large home-health care service into "a license to steal" have been convicted of defrauding the federal Medicare program and Internal Revenue Service. ...

Business Networks Give Tallahassee, Fla., Entrepreneurs a Sense of Community.
July 19, 2000... Byline: Juana Jordan Jul. 19--Bryan Desloge rarely passes on an opportunity to network. He belongs to three business support groups, all in Tallahassee, and until recently he belonged to one in Jacksonville. "I'm a junkie for these...

Tallahassee, Fla., Stores Move to More Desirable Locations.
July 20, 2000... Byline: Juana Jordan Jul. 20--The Eckerd Drugs in Northwood Centre is moving -- right across the street to the old Kmart plaza at North Monroe and Tharpe streets. And its next-door neighbor, Publix, could be moving there too. A sign in...

Tallahassee Democrat, Fla., Business Bazaar Column.
July 20, 2000... Byline: Alice Coale Jul. 20--OPENING THOUGHT: "We love the opportunity to be a host to a number of people." -- Stuart Johnson SHOP TALK: In 1843, The Allison House was built by Florida's sixth governor, Gen. A.K. Allison. In the 1920s,...

Kim Batten back for another medal at Olympics.
July 20, 2000... Byline: St. Claire Murraine TALLAHASSEE, Fla. _ None of the telephone conversations Kim Batten had before heading out to Sacramento, Calif., for the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials last week was as important as the long-distance pep...

New Florida State Plan Revamps Unemployment Agency.
July 21, 2000... Byline: Nancy Cook Lauer Jul. 21--State vocational rehabilitation counselors in three regions will be looking for jobs in the private sector in mid-October, and their counterparts in Tallahassee and five other cities will follow suit in...

Congress spends million on tough police corps training.
July 21, 2000... Byline: Tony Bridges and Paige St. John There's a new kind of cop working the streets of the nation. The officers are college-educated, highly disciplined, physically fit and skilled in weapons and hand-to-hand combat. They're the...

Police Corps founder Walinsky intimidating, undaunted.
July 21, 2000... Byline: Tony Bridges and Paige St. John It's time for the rock. A cadet unwraps the 5-pound lump, painted white and stenciled with the red and blue Police Corps logo, and holds it aloft. Nineteen more Florida cadets press in,...

States use same template but trace different Police Corps paths.
July 21, 2000... Byline: Tony Bridges and Paige St. John JACKSONVILLE, Fla. _ The debate swirling around the federal Police Corps program runs from coast to coast _ from a community college campus in Florida to snowy Mt. Hood in Oregon. The 20 cadets...

Small Telecom Firm Makes a Big Impact in Tallahassee, Fla.
July 22, 2000... Byline: Juana Jordan Jul. 22--Three years ago, when it marched into Tallahassee to go head-to-head with Sprint, KMC Telecom was virtually an unknown in the telecommunications business. It arrived under the slogan "Creative Solutions...

Florida Citrus Growers Employ E-Commerce to Elicit 'E-Fruit' Evolution.
July 23, 2000... Byline: Andrew Meadows Jul. 23--HIGHLAND CITY, Fla.--Steve Rogers is the mad scientist of the citrus industry. From his small office in the heart of Florida's citrus belt, Rogers concocts better ways to grow oranges and grapefruit. But...

For success, practice the 5 P's.
July 24, 2000... Byline: Jeff Herring Success. Most people want it and have even experienced a measure of it. But how to achieve it seems to be troubling. Most of us don't realize we already know the keys to success; we just don't know we know. ...

Female Entrepreneurs in Tallahassee, Fla., Get Help from Local Organizations.
July 25, 2000... Byline: Rachel Sams Jul. 25--When Suki Horne decided to go into business as an acupuncture physician, she had a lot of questions -- from how to get city, county and state licensing to how to balance her business and family...

Tallahassee, Fla., Groups Help Women-Owned Businesses Share Resources.
July 25, 2000... Byline: Rachel Sams Jul. 25--When Suki Horne decided to go into business as an acupuncture physician, she had a lot of questions -- from how to get city, county and state licensing to how to balance her business and family...

Florida State University Receives $116.9 Million in Research Funds.
July 25, 2000... Byline: Melanie Yeager Jul. 25--Florida State University announced Monday it received $116.9 million in research money last year, and top administrators believe FSU can double that in five years. "We had increases in every area," said...

Florida Governor Declares Minority Business Initiative Successful.
July 25, 2000... Byline: Nancy Cook Lauer Jul. 25--Gov. Jeb Bush is declaring his One Florida Initiative a success in its first year, saying spending with certified minority contractors has increased more than 85 percent in the state agencies he controls....

Tallahassee, Fla., Leaders Ask Voters for One-Cent Sales Tax Extension.
July 27, 2000... Byline: Juana Jordan Jul. 27--More than 200 Tallahasseeans, from small-business owners to CEOs to community volunteers, are converging on Panama City Beach this weekend. They want to make sure they get this message across to Tallahassee...

Tallahassee Democrat, Fla., Business Bazaar Column.
July 27, 2000... Byline: Alice Coale Jul. 27--Opening Thought: "I put together where I lived and what I thought about -- the outdoors and fishing." -- Todd Schroeder. Shop Talk: As a child, Todd Schroeder spent each summer camping in national parks...

Energy Department Head Stresses Need for Competition in Utility Industry.
July 27, 2000... Byline: Bill Cotterell Jul. 27--Sweltering Floridians don't need to worry about losing electricity this summer, the head of the federal Department of Energy told power company executives and state regulators Thursday. But Energy...

Independent Tallahassee, Fla., Video Store Offers Wide Selection.
July 27, 2000... Byline: Rachel Sams Jul. 27--Bobbie Brand likes to freak out her customers. Brand, who with husband Terry owns Video 21, said her favorite moments at their video store are when people ask for an obscure film and become blown away when...

Waco case not totally closed.
July 27, 2000... Byline: Leo Sandon The New York Times headline was misleading: "A Special Counsel Finds Government Faultless at Waco." The special counsel, of course, was John C. Danforth, former U.S. senator from Missouri, who pronounced the government...

Gas Prices in Tallahassee, Fla., Finally Begin to Drop.
July 28, 2000... Byline: Gerald Ensley Jul. 28--Gas prices finally began inching lower in Tallahassee on Thursday -- a week or more after they had begun declining in the rest of Florida. Several gas stations at I-10 and Thomasville Road sliced four to...

Commercial fishermen say government's fish conservation goes too far.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE, Fla. _ The Rev. Richard Mathews, a Tallahassee, Fla., preacher who began fishing in Big Bend waters the year that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic, believes the sea could feed multitudes if the...

Florida Fishermen Protest Newly-Enacted Conservation Laws.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Bill Cotterell Jul. 31--The Rev. Richard Mathews, a Tallahassee preacher who began fishing in Big Bend waters the year that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic, believes the sea could feed multitudes if the government would get out...

Survey Says Majority of Leon County, Fla., Voters Support Sales Tax Extension.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Juana Jordan Jul. 31--PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla.--Fifty-nine percent of Leon County's registered voters would support the extension of the penny sales tax if it were placed on the November ballot, according to a survey released Sunday...

Wrong thinking gets us in lots of trouble.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Jeff Herring More things I've noticed along the way: _Three areas of life in which we get very little training, yet we all seem to have a strong opinion on: marriage, parenting and money. _When all is said and done, it...