Category: Business

If you told most business owners who read Historic City News that they had to cut 80% of their customers, they would promptly hang up the “out of business” sign; but, that is exactly what Florida Blue has to do with 300,000 individual policyholders in order to comply with the Affordable Care Act, according to…

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Historic City News has learned that National Association of Railroad Passengers, holding their national meeting in Jacksonville this weekend, are pushing rail carriers to restore discontinued service and establish new stations in Florida — including the Florida East Coast passenger routes.

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Kirk Wendland, President of the St Johns County Chamber of Commerce, reported to Historic City News that yesterday several members of St Johns County’s business community were recognized for their participation in strengthening the local business environment.

On a 4-0 vote by members of the St Augustine City Commission Monday night, a Memorandum of Agreement was approved that will establish a kiosk in the Visitor Center where tickets will be sold by the privately owned Colonial Quarter Museum and the University’s new First Colony exhibit, opening in the renovated Government House.

Historic City News watched yesterday as Agriculture Commissioner, Adam Putnam, said that in 2014, he will push for a $250 million reduction on sales taxes that businesses pay for energy; proposing to cut in half the commercial energy sales tax — noting that residential utility customers do not pay the tax at all.

A split vote Monday night when the St Augustine City Commission decided to allow Philip McDaniel and his investors, who are converting a portion of the former ice plant on Riberia Street into a micro-distillery, to convert the side of the historic building into a billboard.

Historic City News readers, commissioners and city staff will have until their October 28th meeting to further consider the wisdom of allowing passengers on horse-drawn carriages to consume alcoholic beverages from open containers.