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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

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The work we still need to do

If you live and work in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, on average you make $8,000 less than the typical American worker. But if you lived and worked in the Pensacola metro in 1970, you made $2,200 more than the typical Florida worker

• Aug 24, 2014
• Shannon Nickinson

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We lag in economic development subsidies

State and local officials agree that Alabama has had success in attracting big-name manufacturers in part because, unlike Florida, it can pull from an extra source of revenue — the residential income tax.

• Aug 24, 2014
• William Rabb

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We set standards for third-graders. What about us?

• Aug 24, 2014
• Randy Hammer