Roofing firm goes solar for savings
Flat, flexible shiny cells that harness the power of the sun may be the answer to a local roofing company's need to save on energy costs and pave the way to increasing its commercial sales.
Flat, flexible shiny cells that harness the power of the sun may be the answer to a local roofing company's need to save on energy costs and pave the way to increasing its commercial sales.
A group of senior citizens gathered outside the Manatee County Courthouse on Thursday to protest high gas prices.
Officials held a brief ground-breaking ceremony today as work began on the first phase of the $100 million SRQ Innovation Green LLC mixed-use development at the airport.
Florida will soon stop accepting applications for a state program that provides residents with free home inspections to learn about possible wind-resistance upgrades.
Beach business owners are feasting now, but famine may stalk them this fall with the closing of the Anna Maria Island Bridge.
Local and national black leaders called on subprime lenders Wednesday to reform their lending practices, contending minorities have been discriminated against.
There was a computer game that I used to play as a kid where all the little lemmings would follow each other into treacherous situations and you would have to direct them in such a way that the majority of the lemmings would survive. Your success in the game depended on keeping the lemmings from falling off the edge of a cliff.
HomeBanc will celebrate the opening of its new office in Lakewood Ranch with a grand opening Aug. 6-9.
Starbucks Corp. said Tuesday it will close 600 stores in the United States in the next year and cut back the number of new stores it had planned to open.
The year is barely half over, but 2008 is already a record for foreclosure filings in Manatee County.
The Federal Reserve has auctioned another $75 billion in loans to squeezed banks to help them overcome credit problems and announced it will provide a fresh batch of the loans this month.
A Swedish premier fly-fishing company is distributing its wares throughout North America from Manatee County.
x Company: ZNS Engineering, 201 Fifth Ave. Drive E., Bradenton.
Nearly all the major automakers reported steep sales declines for June, but for General Motors at least there was consolation: Toyota, its leading international competition, had it worse.
Two of the things I hear from computer repair customers are: "Why is my computer running so slow?" and "My computer's only a few years old. Why is my hardware failing already?"
Soaring fuel prices are inflicting pain throughout the U.S. Nine in 10 people are expecting the ballooning costs to squeeze them financially over the next half-year, says an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll released Monday.
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Ground-breaking may take place as soon as Thursday on the first phase of the $100 million SRQ Innovation Green LLC project at the airport, officials said.
Michael K. McCall has been named president of Flowers Baking Co. of Bradenton.
China, where fireworks were invented, is running short of ports from which to ship the dangerous cargoes abroad.
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