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Posted on 14 July 2010
JACKSONVILLE – Gardner’s Gazette is a new blog started by k.a. gardner to mark @flipsideflorida‘s new twitter moniker – @GardnersGazette. The premise of the blog is to create story concepts based around the social media platform, Twitter. The blog under its new name began on June 18th. Toronto’s G20 Summit riots are historic for the city. [...] Continue Reading...
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Posted on 08 June 2010
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — When we last left Wind Energy Consulting & Contracting (WECC) in Graham County, Kansas, Flipside Florida was wondering “What does a county, with less than three people per square mile, do to attract commerce to the northwest corner of Kansas? The answer came from an unlikely place — Jacksonville, Fla.-based Wind Energy Consulting [...] Continue Reading...
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Posted on 11 May 2010
PANAMA CITY, Panama, May 5, 2010 — Global corporations, financial institutions and governmental agencies gathered at the Panama Business Forum to explore investment strategies in the country as the Panama Canal’s expansion is completed by 2014. Panel discussions explored global commerce, trade and transportation, as well as the Panamanian government’s plans to meet its future energy demands. The [...] Continue Reading...
BestofNewOrleans.com (News and Classifieds by Gambit)’s newsletter sent Flipside Florida a reminder of the collective festival known as Vieux-To-Do: The annual Louisiana Seafood Festival returns this weekend to the Old U.S. Mint, part of a three-festival lineup known collectively as the Vieux-To-Do. The Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival provides the tunes with a lineup of bands from [...]
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival resumes Thurs., April 29th (tomorrow, actually). Because everyone has differing tastes in music, musicians ply their trade on nine different stages and two tents, each named something different. For example, the Gospel Tent plays gospel music. Anyone with any sense knows the Gentilly Stage is the best stage, [...]
JACKSONVILLE — Flipside Florida commemorates the first anniversary of Air Force One’s disastrous April 27, 2009 flyover of New York City in an ill-conceived public relations photo op. This AF1 commemoration miraculously coincides with an equally disastrous mistake which resulted in wiping out a new post while this old one published instead. At this time, Flipside Florida would like [...]
JACKSONVILLE — Jim Jeroo is back and brings gifts with him (mainly a perfect segue to another blog post for me). The soon-to-be-famous artisan went There and back again (Nov.11, 2009) to Londontown late last year. By sheer “osmosis” Jim Jeroo said he nows lives in Riverside, which is the very same location featured in Flipside Florida‘s [...]
The Financial Times [of London] according to itself, is one of the world’s leading business news organizations. The newspaper published in its House and Home section a lovely article, Perfectly Preserved, which features Jacksonville’s avant garde Riverside and Avondale neighborhoods. The community was naturally delighted. I was impressed because Flipside Florida‘s whole premise of Jacksonville as America’s Logistics Center is neatly [...]