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Green Book of Tampa Bay Spotlights Black-Owned Businesses

June 24, 2020 By: Tiffany Razzano ST. PETERSBURG Fla. – Wanting to help shoppers connect with Black-owned businesses in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, Hillary Van Dyke and Joshua Bean launched the Green Book of Tampa Bay last February. This comprehensive directory “makes it super easy…

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Tampa Bay Alleged Retail Scandal, Forces Lawsuit

May 11, 2020 By: Deborah Childress It’s a case of when “cease and desist” doesn’t work. In an intellectual trademark lawsuit filed with the Hillsborough County Clerk of Court on April 27, 2020, a story emerges of two competing retail beauty suppliers.  It is rife…

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Florida is Back in Business – Almost

May 2, 2020By Sarah McCormick Governor Ron DeSantis is ready for Florida to get back to business, and the Phases begin Monday. Hillsborough County is preparing for their long-awaited re-opening of certain businesses this coming Monday, while Pasco County is opening five of its parks…

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One Local Business, Still Lighting It Up

April 15th 2020 Staff Report Amidst the COVID-19 shutdown orders, the work must go on according to Michelle McQueen, owner, and VP of Signature Lighting & Electrical based in Lakeland Florida. “My husband Blake and I are owners of Signature Lighting and Electrical. We started…

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A Veterans Crafty Retirement

By PAUL CATALA Toni Armstrong has had the roughly century-old treadle sewing machine ever since she was a teenager in Bossier Parish, Louisiana. Although Armstrong, of Apollo Beach, hasn’t used the sewing machine – mounted on a veneer cherry wood table – in decades, she…

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