Posted on 10 May 2012
JACKSONVILLE – May is a big month on the First Coast. The 31st Players Championship opens today at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach. The purse is big – almost $10 million. And all week through Sunday, plenty of big business gets done. There’s nothing marketing departments like more than golf championships. But what makes the [...] Continue Reading...
JACKSONVILLE — Sesquiquadricentennial is a very long word meaning the “450th anniversary” of, in this case, French history in Florida. On May 1, 1562, French Huguenot Capt. Jean Ribault, landed on the May River (St. Johns River). Two years later, Fort Caroline – the first French colony in the United States – was established by Ribault’s second-in-command, René Goulaine de Laudonnière. He is [...]
JACKSONVILLE –There are 193 aviation and aerospace companies in Duval County, employing more than 5,000 workers with an economic impact of more than $440 million in wages, according to Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll. She was keynote speaker at the Cecil Spaceport Development summit on March 26th. Cecil Airport is one of 12 commercial spaceports in [...]
JACKSONVILLE — What do Jacksonville and Curitiba, Brazil have in common besides being sister cities? They’re both recipients of 2012 IBM Smarter Cities Challenge grants, along with 31 other cities worldwide. Mayor Alvin Brown announced on March 15th that a team of IBM technical experts, researchers and consultants will spend three weeks analyzing how to “do more [...]
JACKSONVILLE – National History Day (NHD), a year-long academic program focused on historical research for 6th to 12th grade students, was awarded the prestigious 2011 National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony on Monday, February 13th. Every state has its own NHD chapter; Florida is coordinated by county through the Museum [...]
JACKSONVILLE — The boldly-mustachioed Shahid Khan is “ready to sell Jacksonville to the world,” and said so as keynote speaker for the well-attended JAXUSA Partnership quarterly luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront on Friday. Khan owns the Jacksonville Jaguars; JAXUSA is Jacksonville and Northeast Florida’s economic development non-profit corporation. Since the team’s inception, Jacksonville has [...]
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