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The Miami-Dade Beacon Council, the County’s official economic development partnership, announced today that Korn Ferry has been engaged to manage the organization’s search for a new President and Chief Executive Officer. Korn Ferry, the global organizational consulting firm that helped The Beacon Council hire Michael A. Finney in 2017, will […]

 Before the Civil Rights Movement, there was Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. Born to former slaves born in 1875 on a farm in South Carolina, she went on to help found one of the first historically Black universities, along with a host of other educational and civic programs. Before the […]

Welcome to Becker’s End of Session Spotlight! As your trusted lobbyists we are proud to provide you with the latest developments in politics and policy in Tallahassee. As the 2022 Legislative Session comes to a close, here is what happened in Tallahassee during Week 9 (March 7 – March 11) and […]

Welcome to Becker’s Weekly Spotlight! As your trusted lobbyists, we are proud to provide you with the latest developments in politics and policy in Tallahassee. Here is what happened in Tallahassee during Week 8 (February 28 – March 4) of the 2022 Legislative Session. LOCAL GOVERNMENT Additional Homestead Property Tax […]

From homeowners to business owners, urban entrepreneurs to rural residents, federal stimulus dollars are set to flow through Tallahassee to fund critical projects statewide. In what has been called a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity, those seeking to tap these dollars must act quickly. A previous Becker article reviewed the billions of federal and Florida […]