Florida Gulf Coast University News

Contributed by Robert W. Green Jr. Originally published 6:00 p.m., Friday, July 3, 2009 Updated 6:00 p.m., Friday, July 3, 2009 Courtesy FGCU Robert W. Green Jr., 54, is a customer representative in the parking division of FGCU's police department.

New rules on applying for college financial aid aim to make the process simpler, federal officials announced last week.

A few days before last week's university Board of Trustees meeting, Bradshaw logged on to the social networking site and signed up.

These times of declining sales and revenues sometimes leave small businesses facing the difficult decision of whether to downsize or close.

In the beginning, there were cattle. They drove Southwest Florida commerce as the first non-Indian settlers arrived in the mid-1800s. Sure, the region lured other business pioneers including moonshiner Bill Clay, who set up shop on a waterway still known as Whiskey Creek.

Members of the Greater Naples Junior Womana s Club accept donations of school supplies collected by the Barron Collier High School Green Group.

Cape Coral golfer Chris Trout would have preferred to have qualified for the U.S. Open a week ago but instead he spent time studying for a possible different golf career.

The show of hands was telling. "How many of you out there think banks are lending right now?" asked Pat Kirkpatrick, the vice president of lending for Regions Bank, to a crowd of small business owners gathered in East Naples on Wednesday.

Joshua Noom was selected as the 2008-09 Student of the Year at Lee County High Tech Center North during the school's annual awards program.

A piece of legislation introduced last week by U.S. Rep Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers, would eliminate minimum compensation provisions for construction workers on public works projects.

"I joked with some of the people here that the first thing I did was learn how to turn on the computer and figure out where everything was in my office," Kavanagh said.

The Bonita Springs Area Chamber of Commerce has announced two new team members, Tiffany Esposito and Ryan Uhler.

Starting in July, The Chamber of Southwest Florida will reach out to small businesses with one-on-one, confidential counseling and a monthly seminar.

Compare and contrast the way two leading Southwest Florida public figures regard their compacts with the community.

They were in different sections of the newspaper, but you couldna t help notice the contrast between two stories in Thursdaya s Daily News.

Lee County's small businesses and their employees have plenty of options when it comes to affordable training or retraining.

A Florida Gulf Coast University graduate has now graduated from the Ave Maria School of Law.

More than 150 students and their parents attended Fort Myers Congressman Connie Mack's fifth annual Service Academy Day Seminar today at Florida Gulf Coast University.

The Fort Myers Miracle announced today their participation in the annual 2009 Florida Marlins/Florida State League Scholarship Program.

Florida Gulf Coast University has 13 of its baseball players playing summer ball.