TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Aug. 20 -- Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Florida, issued the following news release: Governor Ron DeSantis announced Florida's unemployment rate dropped to a historic 2.7 percent in July as the state's job creation skyrocketed. Florida's July 2022 unemployment rate is the lowest since February 2020 and this level has only been reached three times since Florida began recording unemployment data in 1976. Florida's private sector employment grew by an outstanding 70,000 in July 2022,   more

ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, Aug. 20 (TNSper) -- Flagler College issued the following news: Ambassador John Rood has been elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Flagler College and Viv Andrew Helwig, '08, CEO of Vested Metals International was selected for the board. Rood succeeds Rick Groux '79, who served in the role for the last three years. Rood assumes Flagler College Board of Trustees Chairmanship Mr. Rood is the founder of Vestcor Companies, a Jacksonville-based real estate developmen  more