Stand and Deliver, Business Geniuses

For years Space Coast businesses and taxpayers have poured millions of dollars into the Economic Development Commission and four Chambers of Commerce, largely on the assumption that these organizations can attract new businesses, create new jobs and raise the prosperity of our community. Now it’s time for these organizations to deliver on that promise.

Our current recession, painful as it is, is just an annoyance compared to the jarring economic dislocation we will suffer if we have no replacements for the jobs and business activity that will disappear with the Space Shuttle. Today we’re suffering with only about 8% unemployment. Titusville is facing the prospect of 50% unemployment, and the rest of the county is facing unbearable declines in employment, home values, business revenues, tax revenues and everything else that depends upon a sustained strong economy.
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Fay’s floods still concern Brevard ranchers, farmers

By Kimberly C. Moore
Florida Today

Some of Brevard County’s most widely known farming and ranching families voiced their concerns to state and county water-management officials Thursday about flooding on their properties during and after Tropical Storm Fay in August.
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Cocoa to increase water fees by 15%

Florida Today
COCOA — The city council voted 4-1 on Tuesday to increase water rates to its 80,000 customers starting Oct. 1. Mayor Michael Blake cast the dissenting vote.
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