Chip Jones
Sweet Deal in Florida to Help Everglades
By Chip Jones | 6/24/2008 | Business News

LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. — In a deal that environmental groups said would be the largest ecological restoration in the country’s history, a plan for the state to buy the nation’s largest producer of cane sugar was announced Tuesday by the governor and officials of U.S. Sugar Corporation.

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About Chip Jones

Charles (Chip) Jones joined The Bergman Group as editor of new media in September 2007 after more than 25 years at Virginia newspapers and magazines, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Virginia Business. Working with Bergman’s talented staff, Jones has helped develop Richmonleaders.com and serves as editor. His interest in leadership stems from his professional experiences as a reporter and author, as well as his personal life growing up around dynamic decision-makers and leaders. Jones is currently writing his second book-Red, White or Yellow? The Military and Media at War in Iraq-about news coverage of the war. He spent two weeks last summer with the Marines at Camp Fallujah, Iraq, and visited the U.S. command in Baghdad. The book will be published in September, 2008 by Stackpole Books.

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