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- 5:02 Listener E mails and Business Talk – Jim riffs on listener comments on real estate, general business topics and the economy.
- · 5:05 David R. Williams – President of Florida Economics Consulting Group, Inc. Dr. Williams focuses on economic consulting related to forensic/litigation and to economic impact analyses. He worked for 5 years in Tallahassee as the Acting Chief Economist in the Governor’s Office in the Graham and Martinez administrations in charge of forecasting Florida’s population, macro economics and sales tax revenues. He has been on the FLORIDA TREND magazine Board of Economists and has taught in the Executive MBA program at the University of Miami. His economics training: Bachelors University of Wales, Masters University of North Carolina, Doctorate University of Florida. He discusses if the US and World economies will recover in 2012 or will it be later than that.
- 5:15 Jon Blecher Jonathan Blecher – Criminal Defense Attorney – a member of the Florida Bar since 1982. He is admitted to practice before all Florida courts, the United States Supreme Court; United States Court of Appeals, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits; United States District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida. Mr. Blecher served as an Assistant State Attorney in Dade County, representing the State of Florida in felony prosecutions from 1981-84,. Mr. Blecher was declared a “TOP TEN DUI LAWYER” by the Miami Herald. He has served as a member of the Florida Bar Traffic Court and DUI Rules Committee. Additionally, he has lectured at the Dade County Police Academy in the area of courtroom procedure for police officers. His practice concentrates on DUI and Criminal Defense and in State and Federal Courts. He represents clients in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe Counties in DUI. Mr. Blecher has defended over 3,000 Driving Under the Influence and vehicular crimes cases since 1982, and thousands of criminal cases.– we discuss the cottage industry that has grown up around the ‘business of diu” .
- 5:25 Hugo Perez – Managing Director of Datacorp- one of South Florida’s leading technology firms- profiles the Youth Co-Op with his guest David E. Heit – Youth Programs Coordinator. Mr. Heit got his start with the agency finding jobs for young people in the aftermath of 9/11 when finding jobs for anyone around town was difficult, let alone jobs for youth. He attributes his success to his passion for issues affecting our community’s youth and wearing out a lot of shoe leather knocking on the doors of many, many businesses. Mr. Heit earned his Master’s Degree in Psychology from FIU.
- 5:35 Executive Health and Wellness
- Penny Shaffer Market President at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida– we discuss many of the questions we get on a regular basis from our listeners about health care, insurance, health care reform and much more – e mail your questions!!!
- 5:45 Office technology
- Peter Casas- President of PDC Technologies – Peter is a technology entrepreneur. He owns several technology related business. We will be discussing IT procedures all firms should use on a regular baisi.
- 5:55 Jim reads rants about issues that get under his skin!
- This week – Powerful people and how they deal with others in the workplace
- The e cards from people you do not know
