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Course uses popular video game to teach business
By Michael Ramirez | Sep. 2, 2010Students will study 21st century business skills in a 26th century war this semester.
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Construction on Main Street bad for Backstage business
By Daniel Elsesser | Aug. 20, 2010The Backstage Lounge just had its biggest crowd in months. Almost 60 people attended the rock lounge and bar to celebrate its fourth year under the current ownership Sunday.
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Apartment complexes aid families of year's largest fire
May 20, 2010The day after the fire, the air still smelled of charred wood. Neighbors gathered around the fenced-off building and stared quietly.
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Magazine gives M.B.A. program 'excellent' rating
By BRANDON BRESLOW | Mar. 22, 2010UF’s Internet M.B.A. program is one of two in the world to earn a rating of “excellent” in The Economist’s “Distance-learning special 2010.”
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Hanrahan: Future bright for women
By MINCH MINCHIN | Mar. 2, 2010Gainesville Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan spoke at the Florida Women in Business and Students in Free Enterprise Women’s History Month event Tuesday night.
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Richard Selwach’s mayoral advertising campaign
Mar. 1, 2010Richard Selwach is running for mayor of Gainesville, but his advertising campaign is more of a publicity stunt than his political platform.
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Five businesses robbed in northwest Gainesville
By MATT HARRINGER | Jan. 27, 2010Investigators discovered five businesses in the same block were robbed around 9 p.m. Tuesday.
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Sales fall with degrees
By Clare Lennon | Jan. 12, 2010It might not come as a surprise to shivering Gators that the recent cold snap is freezing business for some of Gainesville’s hot spots.
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Health dept. shut down 7 restaurants in 2009
Jan. 11, 2010Gumby’s, located at 2028 SW 34th St., temporarily closed last week after a health inspector found about 70 dead roaches and 18 live roaches in its kitchen.
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Cafe Gardens discusses future with landlords
By JULIE UNGER | Nov. 30, 2009Cafe Gardens owner Steve McKinney met with landlords Monday to discuss rising rent prices that could determine the future of 33-year-old restaurant.
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New sushi restaurant opens on Archer Road
By ASHLYN POWELL | Oct. 28, 2009Gainesville is feeding its appetite for Japanese cuisine with the opening of another sushi restaurant. Sake Café opened on Oct. 22 on Archer Road.
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High school entrepreneurs pitch proposals at Santa Fe
By Joey Flechas | Oct. 28, 2009Alexis Oliver is the kind of person who looks at a bottle cap and thinks of jewelry.
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County targets drivers who illegally pass school buses
By MELINDA CARSTENSEN | Oct. 19, 2009Alachua County law enforcement agencies will be on the lookout this week for drivers who illegally pass school buses.
