The Palm Beach Post (West Palm Beach, FL) articles from September 2003

The Palm Beach Post (West Palm Beach, FL) archives from September 2003

The Palm Beach Post, Fla., Business Briefs Column.
September 30, 2003... Sep. 30--ESPERANTE BUILDING SELLS FOR $60.8 MILLION: Trizec Properties Inc. said Monday it has sold the Esperante office building in West Palm Beach for $60.8 million, or about $253 a square foot. Rockwood Capital Corp. of Greenwich,...

Office Depot Reshuffles Top Posts.
September 30, 2003... Byline: Alexandra Navarro Clifton Sep. 30--Office Depot announced a shake-up of its top executives Monday, consolidating its North American operations under a few key positions. The changes include the creation of a new position --...

Palm Beach, Fla., Center Settles Bar-Ownership Dispute.
September 29, 2003... Byline: Paul Owers Sep. 29--CityPlace has settled a bar fight between two restaurant tenants. The outside bar now operated by City Cellar will become Brewzzi's' baby in mid-January. But Brewzzi's owner Skip Stoltz was hoping to gain...

Consumer Credit Counselors Offer Spanish Web Site.
September 29, 2003... Byline: Jeff Ostrowski Sep. 29--Department stores, banks and credit card companies aggressively market themselves to immigrants from Latin America, so it was probably a given that the nation's best-known credit counselor would learn...

Charities Offer Donation-Investment Hybrid to Take Advantage of Low Rates.
September 29, 2003... Byline: Jeff Ostrowski Sep. 29--Rock-bottom yields on savings accounts make these tough times for retirees. But for charities that offer an arrangement known as a "charitable annuity," today's low interest rates are the perfect...

Pomegranate Juice Becomes Newest Health Drink.
September 29, 2003... Byline: Susan Salisbury Sep. 29--Move over red wine, green tea and blueberry juice. Pomegranate juice is the latest darling of the antioxidant set. The juice is popular in Japan, where Dydo Drinco Inc. put it on the market in 2000,...

Pratt & Whitney Partners with Russian Rocket Manufacturer.
September 29, 2003... Byline: Stephen Pounds Sep. 29--Pratt & Whitney is ready to build Russian rockets, almost. Pratt's space unit partnered with a Russian rocket company, NPO Energomash, in the mid-1990s. The strategy was that the Russians would...

The Palm Beach Post, Fla., Business Notes Column.
September 29, 2003... Byline: Susan T. Port Sep. 29--ISRAELI GROUP BUYS CENTER: STUART, Fla.--Some overseas investment has come into Port St. Lucie's commercial real estate market. PSL Town Center LLC, a group of investors mostly from Israel, has bought...

The Palm Beach Post, Fla., Moving Up Column.
September 29, 2003... Byline: Mary Thurwachter Sep. 29--NAME: Mimi Buda DISTINCTION: Co-owner of Mold Investigations, LLC PLACE OF BUSINESS: Boca Raton RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Before closing on a house, buyers routinely hire an inspector to...

The Palm Beach Post, Fla., Lona O'Connor Column.
September 29, 2003... Byline: Lona O'Connor Sep. 29--SECRET TO MULTI-TASKING AT WORK LIES IN SEQUENCING: If you've been reading this column for more than a few weeks, you know my feelings on multi-tasking. That is, trying to listen to music on your headphones...

West Palm Beach, Fla.-Area Radio Station Looks to Tap into Higher Power.
September 29, 2003... Byline: Susan Port Sep. 29--WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.--On The Donna and Brant Morning Show, the radio co-hosts banter with each other about the little things in their lives: Who gets to do the laundry at home. Peanut butter. Even physics...

The Palm Beach Post, Fla., Residential Real Estate Column.
September 29, 2003... Byline: Linda Rawls Sep. 29--EX-SOAP STAR BUILDING MANSION IN GULF STREAM: If you have only one life to live, what better place than Gulf Stream? Former soap star Tonja Walker Davidson -- who played wicked bar owner Alex on ABC's...

The Palm Beach Post, Fla., Alexandra Clough Column.
September 28, 2003... Byline: Alexandra Clough Sep. 28--DELRAY'S ITALIAN INFLUX CONTINUES: Maybe they should rename Delray Beach's main street Via Atlantico. It seems there are now nearly a dozen Italian restaurants along trendy Atlantic Avenue. ...

Visa Limit May Pinch Businesses in Palm Beach, Fla., Area.
September 27, 2003... Byline: David Sedore Sep. 27--The pool of highly skilled foreign workers is about to become much shallower, and that could set off a stampede among the thousands of companies that dip into it for new talent. Congress faces a...

Boca Raton, Fla., Medical Technology Firm to Launch Stroke Therapy.
September 27, 2003... Byline: Stephen Pounds Sep. 27--A Boca Raton medical technology company has received $6 million in venture money, one of the largest cash infusions locally in two years. NovaVision was able to get a big slice of the venture capital...

Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Firm Caught on Horns of Recent Surging Bull Market.
September 26, 2003... Byline: Jeff Ostrowski Sep. 26--The recent bull market has meant hard times for the bearish Weiss Group, which on Thursday laid off 23 of its 250 employees. Weiss Group sells a variety of financial services, including money...

Florida Marlins Prove Winning Teams Do Not Have to Cost a Lot.
September 26, 2003... Byline: Jeff Ostrowski Sep. 26--The conventional wisdom on running a baseball team is simple: Drop cash like a drunken conventioneer, then celebrate as the club surges to the top of the standings. But as the Florida Marlins'...

Private Insurers in Florida Seek Homeowner Policies from State Pool.
September 26, 2003... Byline: Jeff Ostrowski Sep. 26--As Florida's homeowners insurance squeeze has tightened, the number of policies written by the state's pricey insurer of last resort has exploded. Nearly 720,000 homeowners statewide hold policies...

Palm Beach County, Fla., Used Homes' Sales Set Records in August.
September 26, 2003... Byline: Linda Rawls Sep. 26--Sparked by the lowest interest rates in 40 years, used-home sales and prices in August defied analysts' predictions and broke records across the board, state and national reports released Thursday show. ...

The Palm Beach Post, Fla., Media Column.
September 26, 2003... Byline: Susan Port Sep. 26--Another area newspaper has branched out into radio. Since Labor Day, The Miami Herald has offered news reports on WLRN-FM 91.3, the Miami-based public radio station. WLRN's signal can be heard in much of...

St. Lucie County, Fla., Receives Federal Grant for Public Park at Marina.
September 26, 2003... Byline: Jim Reeder Sep. 26--FORT PIERCE, Fla.--River Park Marina, once a lure for potential home-buyers, will soon find new life as a public park thanks to a $200,000 federal grant award to St. Lucie County. Residents of River Park,...

Union Leaders, Sugar Cane Growers Sound Warning on Trade Deals.
September 26, 2003... Byline: Larry Lipman, Sep. 26--WASHINGTON--The recent collapse of world trade talks could place Florida's sugar industry in jeopardy as the Bush administration attempts to cut regional trade deals, industry officials, union leaders and...

West Palm Beach, Fla., Residents Complain about Power Plant.
September 26, 2003... Byline: Scott McCabe Sep. 26--WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.--About 75 people packed the fluorescent yellow room to talk about their substance abuse problem. "Hi, I'm Luvenia Washington and I'm full of soot," began one 70-year-old Riviera...

Two Businesswomen Receive Athena Awards in West Palm Beach, Fla.
September 25, 2003... Byline: Alex Clifton Sep. 25--WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.--When Debra Kelly-Ennis took over as chief operating officer of Saab Cars USA, she wasn't sure what it would take to turn the underperforming automaker around. But she knew exactly...

West Palm Beach, Fla., Unveils Downtown Revival Plan.
September 25, 2003... Byline: J. Christopher Hain Sep. 25--WEST PALM BEACHm Fla.--The city got its hands this week on the downtown plan a Washington think tank started in June. And many of the suggestions -- including moving the library and turning its...

Krispy Kremes to Make London Debut at Harrods Department Store.
September 25, 2003... Byline: Shelley Emling Sep. 25--LONDON--In the beginning, there were tea tins, chocolate truffles, smoked fish and roasting quails. But Oct. 3 the impeccably polite salespeople in the Food Hall at posh Harrods department store, which...

Jupiter Paves Way for Shopping Center Development with Rezoning.
September 25, 2003... Byline: Joe Brogan Sep. 25--JUPITER, Fla.--Saying town residents need more places to shop, council members on Tuesday gave the nod to plans for a shopping center on 100 acres on Indiantown Road that the county has long wanted to preserve...

Anti-Terror Database Deal Awaits Approval from Florida Officials.
September 25, 2003... Byline: Jim Ash Sep. 25--TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--The Florida Department of Law Enforcement could soon have final approval to hand a $1.6 million noncompetitive contract to a Boca Raton company founded by a man who recently acknowledged his...

Florida Medical Center, Nurse Staffers Saluted for Helping Working Moms.
September 24, 2003... Byline: Alex Clifton Sep. 24--MANALAPAN, Fla.--For Meredith Baxter, it all comes down to a "trickle-up" theory. "When you know your family is OK, you can go to work and do your best," said Baxter, the actress best known for her role...

Intense Security Measures Planned for Miami Trade Summit.
September 24, 2003... Byline: Susan Salisbury Sep. 24--A failed trade summit marred by clashes between protesters and police in Mexico this month is fresh on the minds of area law-enforcement officials as they prepare for another meeting -- this one in Miami....

Sugar, Citrus Industry Officials in Florida Watch Closely as Trade Talks Near.
September 24, 2003... Byline: Susan Salisbury Sep. 24--The collapse of the latest round of World Trade Organization talks earlier this month is raising concern in Florida's sugar industry. Citrus producers, on the other hand, are relieved their industry...

West Palm Beach, Fla.-Based Oxbow Group Buys Mineral Company.
September 24, 2003... Byline: Stephen Pounds Sep. 24--Oxbow Group in West Palm Beach is buying a mineral and materials supplier for $128 million in a deal that will make it the seventh-largest private company in Florida, Oxbow said Tuesday. Oxbow inked an...

Developer Won't Buy Palm Beach, Fla., Hotel.
September 23, 2003... Byline: Paul Owers Sep. 23--Revitalizing the West Palm Beach waterfront became less daunting Monday when developer Bruce Rendina said he's canceling plans to buy the Helen Wilkes Hotel for nearly $10 million. The rundown hotel sits...

Union Tries to Interest Workers at JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, Fla.
September 23, 2003... Byline: David Sedore Sep. 23--The Service Employees International Union is attempting to win a second organizing effort at an HCA-owned hospital in South Florida, this one in Palm Beach County. The union is collecting cards from...

Transit A Big Concern in Wackenhut Corrections' Choice of Headquarters.
September 23, 2003... Byline: Chuck McGinness Sep. 23--When Wackenhut Corrections Corp. decided to move its headquarters from Palm Beach Gardens last year, company officials faced a dilemma. About half of its 90 employees live in northern Palm Beach...

The Palm Beach Post, Fla., Business Notes Column.
September 22, 2003... Byline: Susan T. Port Sep. 22--'DYNAMIC' JENSEN POSTS SPATE OF DEALS: Chris Klein has another piece to add to what he calls the "dynamic" local real estate market. The Stuart-based broker's latest deal: Kenneth Goodman, president of...

The Palm Beach Post, Fla., Moving Up Column.
September 22, 2003... Byline: Mary Thurwachter Sep. 22--NAME: Ellen S. Morris. DISTINCTION: Managing partner in Elder Law Associates, P.A. PLACE OF BUSINESS: Boca Raton. RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Seniors struggling with Medicaid caps and financial...

The Palm Beach Post, Fla., Lona O'Connor Column.
September 22, 2003... Byline: Lona O'Connor Sep. 22--WORK MEANS CLEARING HURDLES, NOT HOPING FOR EASY COURSE: It's always hard; it never gets easy. Now you are wondering to yourself, "Do I really need to read this while I'm eating my oat-bran crunchies?"...

The Palm Beach Post, Fla., Real Estate Column.
September 22, 2003... Byline: Paul Owers Sep. 22--PLENTY OF OFFICE BUILDINGS FOR SALE: Want to buy an office building? Everybody seems to be selling one. Esperante, Phillips Point and Golden Bear Plaza are three of the most high-profile properties on the...

Sports Bars Become Popular Hangouts for Many Palm Beach, Fla.-Area Fans.
September 22, 2003... Byline: Paul Owers Sep. 22--Sure, you can watch the big football game at home, remote in hand, food in the fridge and Tums on the tabletop. But how much fun can that be? Most folks drive to the local sports bar to carry on with 200...

Palm Beach County, Fla., Builders Topped 5,000 Homes in 2002, Survey Shows.
September 22, 2003... Byline: Linda Rawls Sep. 22--The top 10 home builders in Palm Beach County last year pulled 9,143 permits and built more than 5,000 new homes, according to The Builder 100, an annual survey recently published online by Builder magazine....

Workshops Offer Internet Training for Tradesmen in South Florida.
September 22, 2003... Byline: Paul Owers Sep. 22--Everybody uses computers, right? Not so fast. Many subcontractors in the construction industry have failed to embrace technology. "I personally called 1,500 subcontractors and 20 percent did not have...

Boca Raton, Fla.-Area Realtor, Association Receive Honors from State Group.
September 22, 2003... Byline: Linda Rawls Sep. 22--A local Realtor and an area Realtors' association won top honors at the annual Florida Association of Realtors convention in Hollywood. Mike Owen, a member of the Realtors Association of the Palm...

Food Network to Showcase Tropicana's Fort Pierce, Fla., Plant.
September 22, 2003... Byline: Susan Port Sep. 22--Officials with Tropicana Inc. say television viewers will be able to get an inside look at its Fort Pierce processing and packing plant today. The Food Network's Unwrapped will feature the plant in...

The Palm Beach Post, Fla., Alexandra Clough Column.
September 21, 2003... Byline: Alexandra Clough Sep. 21--MOTOROLA COMPLEX REVAMP ON HOLD: Look for a little delay in the big redo of the Motorola complex in Boynton Beach. Politics has stalled a decision about whether to move city hall to the site. That's...

State Farm Hikes Insurance Rate for Condos in Florida.
September 20, 2003... Byline: Jeff Ostrowski Sep. 20--State Farm, Florida's largest home and auto insurer, aims to impose a double-digit increase on condominium associations next year -- after imposing triple-digit rate hikes this year. State Farm this...

Japan on Upswing, Seeking U.S. Money, Experts Say at Florida Forum.
September 20, 2003... Byline: Susan Salisbury Sep. 20--PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla.--Japan's slumping economy began improving six months ago after three recessions in the past 10 years, and that means opportunity for investors, two experts said Friday. "The...

Owners of Boca Raton, Fla., Mortgage Firm Discuss Real Estate over Airwaves.
September 20, 2003... Byline: Linda Rawls Sep. 20--BOCA RATON, Fla.--If mortgages and real estate aren't appetizing topics for you, then you haven't dined at Mario's of Boca lately. Besides ravioli and rigatoni, the restaurant next to the Holiday Inn on...

Eateries in Downtown West Palm Beach, Fla., Issue Plea for Help.
September 20, 2003... Byline: Alexandra Navarro Clifton Sep. 20--Downtown West Palm Beach restaurant owners and managers have banded together to form a new group called Save the Restaurants on Clematis. Two weeks ago, the group sent a letter to Mayor Lois...

Jobless Rates Holding Steady in Palm Beach County, Rest of Florida.
September 20, 2003... Byline: David Sedore Sep. 20--The jobless picture locally and statewide remained static for the second consecutive month in August, according to the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation. The unemployment rate for Palm Beach County...

Florida HMOs See Profits Surge in 2003.
September 19, 2003... Byline: Phil Galewitz Sep. 19--Profits at Florida HMOs continued to rocket upward in the first half of 2003 as the health plans reaped the benefits from their customers paying higher premiums, co-payments and deductibles. Florida's...

Restaurant Chains Place Sandwiches at Top of Menu.
September 19, 2003... Byline: Susan Salisbury Sep. 19--PALM BEACH, Fla.--Sandwiches are the number one new menu item at the nation's top 200 restaurant chains, and we're not talking white bread with peanut butter and jelly. Specialty breads such as pesto...

The Palm Beach Post, Fla., Business Briefs Column.
September 18, 2003... Sep. 18--Office Depot on Wednesday announced the hiring of Tyler J. Elm as director of environmental affairs. Elm will be responsible for coordinating the Delray Beach-based company's environmental activities. He has been a...

Palm Beach Customers Rank United Healthcare of Florida Highest of HMOs.
September 18, 2003... Byline: Phil Galewitz Sep. 18--United Healthcare of Florida has the most customer satisfaction among Palm Beach County and Treasure Coast HMOs. Cigna HealthCare of Florida does the best at making sure older women get breast cancer...

DiVosta, Fla., Ranks Highest in Area Survey in New-Home Buyer Satisfaction.
September 18, 2003... Byline: Linda Rawls Sep. 18--DiVosta Homes ranks highest in home-buyer satisfaction in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast, a J.D. Power and Associates survey released Wednesday shows. The annual study measured the satisfaction...

Palm Beach, Fla.-Area Realtors Shocked by House's $1.2 Million Asking Price.
September 18, 2003... Byline: Linda Rawls Sep. 18--LAKE WORTH, Fla.--Salvatore Candeloro's vision of Lake Worth has tongues in this town wagging. That's because it doesn't come cheap: $1.2 million. That's what Candeloro is asking for his restored 1926...

NYSE's Grasso Hefty Pay Package Outrages Palm Beach, Fla.-Area Brokers.
September 18, 2003... Byline: Jeff Ostrowski Sep. 18--For stockbroker Muriel Siebert, New York Stock Exchange Chairman Dick Grasso's mammoth pay package couldn't have come at a worse time. Just as the market was shaking off its hangover from the dot-com...

Vero Beach, Fla.-Based Plane Maker Begins to Hire Again.
September 17, 2003... Byline: Susan T. Port Sep. 17--These days, officials at New Piper Aircraft say things are looking up. Hit hard by poor economic conditions and continued fallout from the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the Vero Beach plane-maker has...

Florida Youngsters Offer Food Giants Advice.
September 17, 2003... Byline: Susan Salisbury Sep. 17--PALM BEACH, Fla.--Goose-flavored potato chips are a definite loser, and Kellogg's Smorz Cereal needs more marshmallows and some actual Hershey's chocolate pieces. Those were some of the words of...

Healthy, Convenient Foods Touted at Florida Conference.
September 16, 2003... Byline: Susan Salisbury Sep. 16--PALM BEACH, Fla.--Newcastle Brown Ale ice cream and Walker's lamb-and-mint-flavored chips probably won't be coming to a South Florida supermarket near you. But you can bet that many healthy and...

Survey Says Staffing Levels to Remain Steady in West Palm Beach, Fla.
September 16, 2003... Byline: David Sedore Sep. 16--Don't expect to see a lot of West Palm Beach employers hiring during the fourth quarter of the year, but don't expect them to do a lot of firing, either. The Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, released...

Man Accuses Sears of Illegal Taping in Florida.
September 16, 2003... Byline: Alex Navarro Clifton Sep. 16--While a former Sears store security officer was keeping an eye on shoppers, the department store was watching -- and listening -- to him, a lawsuit says. The problem wasn't the hidden video...

Boca Raton, Fla.-Based ADT Security to Cut 400 Jobs.
September 16, 2003... Byline: Stephen Pounds Sep. 16--ADT Security Services in Boca Raton will lay off 400 people when it closes its Bradenton security-alarm monitoring center on Nov. 30, the company said Monday. Alarm customers who are monitored from...

Los Angeles Company Enters Florida-Based Online Publisher Bankrate.com's Turf.
September 15, 2003... Byline: Jeff Ostrowski Sep. 15--Online publisher Bankrate.com has built a name for itself as the best-known collector of mortgage, savings, credit card and CD rates. Now, a competitor is trying to poach Bankrate's online clients. ...

New Condos in West Palm Beach, Fla., Uses New York Art Museum as Inspiration.
September 15, 2003... Byline: Linda Rawls Sep. 15--Despite developers' marketing pitches, art and real estate don't have much in common. A new condominium in downtown West Palm Beach is looking to change that -- and it's going so far as to call itself The...

Fort Pierce, Fla., Scientist Hunts Bug to Fight Air Potato.
September 15, 2003... Byline: Susan Salisbury Sep. 15--The air potato plant is choking out everything from entire stands of natural Florida scrub to backyard palm trees. University of Florida scientist Bill Overholt thinks finding an insect that is the...

Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Firm's Software Converts Speech to Sign Language.
September 15, 2003... Byline: Stephen Pounds Sep. 15--Communication between teachers and students, bosses and workers, parents and children is tough enough without one of the parties being deaf. Now, software can help. Palm Beach Gardens-based 21st...

The Palm Beach Post, Fla., Lona O'Connor Column.
September 15, 2003... Byline: Lona O'Connor Sep. 15--If the Dalai Lama and Muddy Waters say it, it has to be right. Muddy Waters, the great bluesman, had a reputation for encouraging the individual talents of his band members. Many of them went on to...

The Palm Beach Post, Fla., Residential Real Estate Column.
September 15, 2003... Byline: Linda Rawls Sep. 15--NORMAN SLICES OFF HOBE SOUND ACRES: Golfer Greg "The Shark" Norman has sold 50 acres of his Medalist golf course development in Martin County to Zuckerman Homes. The Coral Springs-based developer plans to...

Jupiter, Fla., Engineers Create Custom-Build Underwater Craft.
September 15, 2003... Byline: Alex Navarro Clifton Sep. 15--JUPITER, Fla.--If speeding over the water on a personal watercraft isn't cool enough for you, a team of Jupiter engineers have invented an underwater craft that allows its passengers a tour under the...

The Palm Beach Post, Fla., Alexandra Clough Column.
September 14, 2003... Byline: Alexandra Clough Sep. 14--The Boys Farmers Market in Delray Beach isn't afraid to take on the big boys. It's suing SunTrust Bank, claiming the banking giant overcharged it on credit card transactions. The lawsuit alleges...

Boca Raton, Fla.-Area Internet Firm Helps Web Searches through Google.
September 14, 2003... Byline: Stephen Pounds Sep. 14--BOCA RATON, Fla. -- To Andrew Wetzler and Dennis Pushkin, Google is a noun and a verb. In four years, Google has become the mother of all search engines, used for more than three-quarters of Internet...

Home Depot Expansion May Reach Europe, Asia in Future.
September 14, 2003... Byline: Tony Wilbert Sep. 14--As Home Depot expands in Mexico and Canada, it's keeping an eye on Europe and Asia for future international opportunities. Expansion into Europe and Asia isn't imminent, but America's largest home...

Home Depot Attempts to Build Business in Mexico.
September 14, 2003... Byline: Tony Wilbert Sep. 14--MONTERREY, Mexico -- In the battle to conquer Mexico's home improvement market, Ricardo Saldivar knows the importance of something as seemingly insignificant as oil spots on a Home Depot parking lot. If...

FPL Group Seeks Share of Three Nuclear Power Plants.
September 13, 2003... Byline: Stephen Pounds Sep. 13--FPL Group has agreed to spend $277 million for half ownership in three nuclear power plants, including one at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania where America's worst nuclear accident occurred in 1979. ...

Convergys to Add 500 Jobs in Fort Pierce, Fla.
September 12, 2003... Byline: Susan Port Sep. 12--Call center giant Convergys Corp. announced this week it will add 500 new jobs during the next three months to its call center at the former Orange Blossom Mall. When hiring is done, the Fort Pierce center...

Lake Worth, Fla., Is On Verge of Development Boom.
September 12, 2003... Byline: Paul Owers Sep. 12--LAKE WORTH, Fla.--Jim Knight and two business partners had just come from the Palm Beach County Courthouse, undaunted but unhappy. The developers missed out this summer on a chance to buy the former Wicked...

Leon County, Fla., Judge Halts Hospitals' Heart Surgery Programs.
September 12, 2003... Byline: Phil Galewitz Sep. 12--A Leon County judge ruled Thursday that a new state law giving four Palm Beach County and Treasure Coast hospitals the authority to perform open-heart surgery is unconstitutional. Judge Kevin Davey's...

The Palm Beach Post, Fla., Media Column.
September 12, 2003... Byline: Susan Port Sep. 12--AMI TAKES FIRST STEPS TO LAUNCH PAIR OF CABLE TV STATIONS: American Media Inc. has established AMI Broadcasting in order to pursue its previously announced plans to launch two cable television channels. ...

Dovetailing Events Create National Plywood Shortage.
September 12, 2003... Byline: Susan Salisbury Sep. 12--South Floridians heading out to prepare for a possible encounter with Hurricane Isabel should brace themselves for some sticker shock. Plywood prices have soared during the past three months, tripling...

Delray Beach, Fla., Trading Card Publisher's Sept. 11 Products Fail to Sell.
September 12, 2003... Byline: Jeff Ostrowski Sep. 12--When Delray Beach trading card publisher Kingsley Barham announced plans for collector cards featuring victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, critics derided him as a shameless profiteer. As it turns out,...

American Media Inc. Lays Off 70 Workers.
September 11, 2003... Byline: Susan T. Port Sep. 11--American Media Inc., publisher of The National Enquirer, laid off 70 people, or 7 percent of the company's staff, Wednesday afternoon. Most of the layoffs were in Palm Beach County, and AMI Chairman...

Labeling Law Splits Retailers, Growers in Florida.
September 11, 2003... Byline: Susan Salisbury Sep. 11--More than a year after its passage, controversy still rages over a national country-of-origin labeling law, and a lobbying group for major retailers is mounting an aggressive campaign to get it...

South Florida Manufacturers Seek State's Help.
September 11, 2003... Byline: David Sedore Sep. 11--DAVIE, Fla.--South Florida's manufacturers have shed thousands of jobs in recent years, citing rising costs and cheap competition from China. On Wednesday, they took a step into the political arena, hoping...