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The Hawk Eye The president of the Black Leadership Council on Monday called on the Burlington City Council to sever ties with a local bank over a racist Facebook post made in November by one of the bank's vice presidents. Addressing city council during its regular meeting, the Rev. Rob Brown, pastor of the Hope Temple Christian Church and president of the 16-member council that formed about two months ago in the hopes of making Burlington a better community for their children, expressed his frustration over the city's continued business with Farmers & Merchants Bank & Trust after one of th...

This is how Sarasota County scored an Amazon distribution center Many in the county’s private and public sectors didn’t see it coming.  The plan to attract the company that is changing the face of retail across the world came not from the county’s own agency that’s responsible for drawing businesses. It came from a local entrepreneur and County Commission Chairman Mike Moran. Moran, who, after a lunch meeting in downtown Sarasota with Shay Atluru, the CEO/president at consulting firm DTC, convinced a friend to offer land in Venice to help seal the deal.  Last Wednesday, just mo...