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First, the good news

Patrick Elebash saw something downtown last Christmas that he had never seen before. Shopping bags. Lots and lots of shopping bags. From lots and lots of stores.

• Aug 24, 2014
• Shannon Nickinson

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Mobile has cast its lot with industry; should we?

When officials from the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce visited Pensacola recently, they oohed and ahhed about Pensacola’s thriving downtown business district, as well as the waterfront ballpark and its array of nearby restaurants and nightspots.

• Aug 24, 2014
• William Rabb

community

Our sights are set on industry clusters

• Aug 24, 2014
• William Rabb

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Pensacola-area tech sector is on the move

Getting a 350-pound robot to walk like a human is half art, half science. It’s the kind of thing the robotics lab at the Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition specializes in.

• Aug 24, 2014
• Mollye Barrows

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Rebuilding our middle class could start here

Tauheedah Rasheed knows the value of hard work. A single mother with two young children and then only a high school education, Rasheed could barely make ends meet working in customer service.

• Aug 24, 2014
• Mollye Barrows