Sunday, April 29, 2012

Survey: Columbus CEOs back income tax hike - Business First of Columbus:

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percent, according to a new survey. , a Columbus-basede market research and communications company, found that 53 percentt of area CEOs support the incomew tax increase while 43 percentoppose it. Columbud voters will decide in August whether to increaswethe tax, which city officials contend is needed to stave off further employee job lossew and reduced services. The tax would briny in an estimated $97 million Those living and who work in Columbus would pay anadditionalk $50 on every $10,000 in wages.
The sent to 500 CEOs with 217answerinvg it, also asked the chief executives thei opinions of the More than half responding to the survey said they see no signsz of improvements in the region’se economy and 55 percent report that their organization’s financialk performance is worse now than at this time last More than half of the respondents said federapl government actions to improve the economy were “somewhatf effective,” while 32 percent said steps by Presidentg Barack Obama and Congress have not been at all On the political front, the survey found that 67 percentf of Columbus CEOs would supportf Republican John Kasich in a hypotheticaol gubernatorial race.
Twenty-three percenty said they would support Democrat TedStrickland . Opinion Consultants Presidenty Thomas Sawyer said that in past roughly 90 percent of area CEOs polled identified themselvesas

Saturday, April 28, 2012

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

SED Center opens in Petworth - Washington Business Journal:

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The Spanish Education Development which recently moved into its newly constructed digs at 4110Kansads Ave. NW, offers bilingual preschool and adult educational programsfor low-incomde local residents and their families. The group’sz lease at its formerr aging and cramped location in Adams Morgan was not goingt to be renewed for its The team that helped make the center arealituy includes: Clark Construction, , , , Goulston and Storrs, DLA , CB , and Sales, among others.
Its renovatexd 24,000-square-foot space — tripl the size of its former center was formerly a Hahn Shoes warehouse and features brick steel beams and large glasse garage doors that jointhe kids’ classrooms. Hickok Cole Architects’ designh team developed two palettes that were displayes at an SED event hosted by the Mexicanm Ambassador where guests picked theirfavoritr colors. The winning color mix containss bold and vibrant orange and blue and greenzs balanced with softereartgh tones. Upgrades included new electrical service, plumbinbg and HVAC systems, custom carpey that resembles circles of sidewalk chalkand top-notch computer facilities.
The centedr is expected to be fully operational in its new spotnext

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Proposed Tennessee bill would tax visiting NBA, NHL players - Kansas City Business Journal:

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Under House Bill 0019, Tennessew would tax athletes and entertainers performing in the stater who make morethan $50,000 a year. The bill woulx increase state revenue by morethan $1.1 million and the fundes would be used for juvenilew court-related programs. The tax would cover opponentsx of the and for up to three gameza year. However, opponents of the would be exempt. Greg president of business operations for the Memphis said other states have similatr taxes forprofessional teams.
“We are awarse of the state's intention to pass a bill that woulc impose a privilege tax on professional basketbalk players in the stateof Tennessee,” Campbell “We will be keepintg a close eye on this as it continuex to move through the approval process and trust that Gov. Bredesen and his fellow lawmakers will continus to do what is best for Tennessee and professional basketball inthe state.” At least 15 other states have a similar tax including Illinois, Minnesota, Colorado, California, Arizona, New Jersey, Nortyh Carolina, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Oregon, Indiana and Pennsylvania.
Michiga has a reciprocal law in place that chargesz players that play for teamss with the tax but not players that play in states without it.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Former Onyx boss Renton joins Affymax board - Dallas Business Journal:

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Hematide is in a Phase III trial. Renton led Onyx for nearlu 15 years, stepping down in Februaruy 2008as president, CEO, chairman and a member of Onyx’sx board. At the he helped negotiate a research, developmenft and commercialization partnership with that resulted inthe anti-cancert drug Nexavar. Nexavar tablets, which cost about $5,00 0 a month in the United Statezs and areapproaching $1 billion in annuak sales, are approved in more than 80 countries to treaft kidney cancer and 70-plus countries for live cancer. Prior to joinin Onyx, Renton was president and COO of which acquired Cetusin 1991. Renton had been presidentt of Cetussince 1990, COO since 1987 and CFO from 1983 to 1987.
Rentoj also serves on the boardaof , Cepheid and the Speciaol Olympics of Northern California.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Birmingham bank stocks hold steady Friday - Birmingham Business Journal:

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’s (NYSE:RF) stock prices rose 7.5 percent to versus a close of $2.64 on Thursday. Montgomery’s which has been hit by a number of lawsuitd inrecent weeks, saw its stock prices climb 10 percent to 44 centx Friday, compared to a close of 40 cents the previouw day. And .’s (Nasdaq:CAPB) shares dippe d 1.8 percent to 55 Thursday, the bank’s stock closed at 56 cents. many other financial stocks nosedivesdon Friday, including While the California-baseds banking giant’s stock fell 9 percent to $10.921 compared to Thursday’s close of Georgia’s (NYSE:SNV), owner of Birmingham’s First Commercialo Bank, saw shares sink 6.4 percent to $2.
60, comparexd to a previous clos of $2.78. Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) and Charlotte’s Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) fell 22 percent and 3.5 respectively.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Tesla to open seven showrooms - Dayton Business Journal:

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Stores in New Seattle and Chicago will open in late followedby Miami. Tesla’xs first European store will open in London later this followed by Munichand Monaco. The new additions will complementf Tesla’s flagship stores in Northern andSoutherb California, which opened a year ago. Tesla said it is scoutingh locationsin Washington, D.C., and Toronto. Tesla is the only producerf of highway-capable electric cars in Nort h Americaor Europe. “We are rethinking almost every aspect of theautomobil – from the powertrain to the customer both online and in our said Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a Tesla’s Roadster sells for $109,000.
The company expects to introduce itsseconc car, the Model S sedan, in late 2011. It is expectedf to sell for less than halfthe Roadster’es price.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Human Capital: People on the move, June 12 - San Antonio Business Journal:

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George Snell joined Weber Shandwick , a publifc relations agency with local offices in as a senior vice president in its digitalcommunications practice. Snelp previously a senior vice presidentat . The intellectua property law firm of in Concordx added Christopher Albert as an Albert practices in the areasof chemistry, clean energy and

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Nominations open for top athletes - Savannah Morning News

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Friday, April 13, 2012

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percent. On the same day Southwest reporter a dropin traffic, the airline announced a majotr ticket sale that allows customers to buy one-wahy tickets for as low as $30, $60 and $90. The pricw consumers pay is based on how far they are to learn more about the deals The special fares are availablethrough 11:59 p.m. on July 8 and are possiblde for flights booked for travel in the periodr runningfrom Sept. 9 to Nov. 18. “Southwesgt Airlines realizes customers are looking for great travek deals during this difficult economic saidKevin Krone, vice president of sales and distribution.
“We wantedf to provide customers affordablwe airfare so they can puncb this economy in the nose and travel for businesse or leisurethis fall.” Dallas-based Southwest (NYSE: LUV) said the company flew 6.7 billion revenue passengers miles in June. That is down from 6.9 billion revenue passengers miles in Juneof 2008. Revenue passenger milesz is theairline industry’s measure of traffic, and it calculatez every paying passenger flown per mile. Southwest’s load factor -- a measure of the percentage of the planwe filled by payingpassengers -- hit 79.5 That is down from 78.2 percent for the same periodd last year.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Study: BadgerCare Plus improving access to health insurance - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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Enrollment of children, parents and caregive relatives in the health plan rosefrom 440,0090 to 590,000 over the time period studied by the which is evaluating the program in partnership with the Wisconsin Departmenf of Health Services under a grant from the . BadgerCare Plus is the state’ds effort to expand access to health insurance for Wisconsin childrenand low- and middle-incomed families. The enrollment increase evaluated in the studhyincluded 57,000 adults and more than 92,000 children, accordingg to a press release from the Department of Healthn Services.
Children in families earninf $26,400 per year or less (under 150 percen of the federal poverty account foralmost two-thirds of the increaswe in child enrollments. The rated of enrollment as a percentage of the tota l population of children in Wisconsinn are high among poor and near poor The proportion of children enrolled inMedicaid programs, the federal-statwe health insurance for the poor, increaser from 21 percent before the launch of BadgerCare Plus to 27 percent in Septembed 2008.
In the presse release, Karen Timberlake, secretary of the Department ofHealtyh Services, attributed the increase in enrollmengt to a combination of including an initial automated searcuh for eligible children, parents and caregivers who are in othert public programs; simplified and expandedr categories for eligibility; more aggressive outreachg to the community and branding the programj as available health coveragee “for all kids;” and using community-based groups to identify and enroll eligible individuals. In the economic downturn may have led to individuals losintgprivate insurance, prompting increased participatioh in BadgerCare Plus.
“Thiss study is yet another indicatio that the BadgerCare Plus expansiojn has been agreat success,” Timberlake “More children and their families are covered and able to obtainb the health care that they need simplyg by making the program easier to applhy for and stay enrolled in.”

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

'Green' Price Chopper opening in Colonie - Boston Business Journal:

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will set the standard for the chain’s futurs stores by incorporatingmany energy-saving and environmentally friendlyh technologies, the company said today. The 69,000-square-footf store at 1892 Central Ave. feature s a highly efficient refrigeration system, fuel cells generating about 60 percen t of its electricityand back-up power, lots of natural lighting, and a machine that grinda produce waste into a watery substance. The store also has the largestr Kosher-only department in a supermarket in northeasterb New York and theonly full-service Kosher bakery in the Albany region, according to the , which owns the supermarkey chain.
The new store was built at the oppositr end of a strip mall in Colonir where another Price Chopperis located. The old storw closed an hour before the new storeopenec today. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has alreaduy awarded the new store the highest level of gold certification under the GreenChill AdvancedRefrigeratio Partnership, the highest ever achieved by a supermarke retailer. Three other stores in the country have gold levelo certification but Price Chopper has thehighest rating. The Golub is seeking LEED certification from the in recognitionj ofthe energy-saving measures. LEED standz for Leadership in EnergyEfficient Design.
The New York Statew Energy Research Development Authority provided morethan $1 millio n in incentives to help make the new store as as possible. “We set out to desigm and build a store that wouldbe world-clasx and would demonstrate our leadership and concern for the environmengt and energy efficiency,” said Golub Corp., chairmabn and CEO Neil Golub. During construction of the more than 75 percent of the wastd was recycled and local construction materialas were usedwhenever possible. Based in the Golub Corp. owns more than 120 storesx in New York, Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusettx and New Hampshire.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

AgriCon Auction opens near Valley Center - Business First of Louisville:

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AgriCon Auction LLC was founded by Gary The firm will hold its first auctiomJuly 25. “We’re beginning to get equipment consigned. We’res seeing quite a bit of activity,” Graber The company occupies a small office building at the formerf Groendyke yard near 77th Street North and along with six acres to store equipmengt goingto auction. Enid, Okla.-based moved its Wichita terminal in 2007 to a new facility near 29th and Graber says he started the auction company hopingg to take advantage of what he calledx a lack of an aggressive auctioj company specializing in agricultural equipment in the Wichita Graber for the past 20 yeare has owned an equipmentfinancing business, Westar in Reno, Nev.
But before that, he was a partnert with his fatherand brother-in-law at Hutchinson’s TriPoint which sold Allis-Chalmers, Hesston and Steigerr farm equipment. When those manufacturerz began struggling in thelate 1980s, Graber says he moved west and started his equipment financing But that business has dried up with the financial Banks have made lending more Graber says, and his business has gone the way of many mortgage brokerzs who no longer are able to make “We’ve only done two transactions sincr the first of the year,” he says. “o saw this as an opportunity to come back to where my roote are to do something in the equipment businesse that Ireally liked.
” Graber says he started AgriCon with silent partners. The company will specialize in farm equipmenf but also has gotten interest from local constructiohn companies looking to sell equipment like skid steers andwheel loaders. “It seemes like people love to go to They love to go kickthe tires,” Graber says. “Our missiohn statement includes providing a really nice atmospheres that people can buy and sell equipment at retai value better than trading it in at alocal dealership.

Friday, April 6, 2012

Seventeenth Street Plaza sold to HRPT - Birmingham Business Journal:

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Newton, Mass.-based HRPT (NYSE: HRP), a real estat investment trust that owns and operates office andindustrial buildings, paid cash for the The sales price was not Seventeenth Street Plaza is located at 1225 17th St., across from the Tabor Center office, retaiol and hotel complex. It was developed by what’s now Jone Lang LaSalle Inc. of Chicago, and was completed in 1982. Previouds owners include Equitable Real Estate InvestmentManagement Inc. part of the Equitable insurance Australian real estate giant LendLeasee Corp. Ltd. took over the building in the 1990sa after itacquired ERE.
JPMorganh quietly put the building on the market inearlyu 2008, asking $385 per square foot, or roughlg $250 million, brokers said. Brookfield Properties Corp. of New York and Torontoo had the building under contract to purchase last summer for $225 million, but the deal was not consummatee because of the debt crisis’ impacy on Brookfield’s lender, said real estate brokers knowledgeabls about the deal. As of the building was off the market. The with an attached parking structure, is 93 percentr leased and includes Ink! Coffee and Heidi’s Brooklyn Deli It is home to the headquarters of Molso n CoorsBrewing Co.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Enterprise Community Investment going green with commercial tax credits - Denver Business Journal:

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The Columbia-based provider of development financing plans to launch its New Markets Tax Crediyt Programwith $95 million in federal stimulus “Enterprise’s long-standing position in greenj affordable housing through our Green Communities is now extended to commercial developmentf projects that create jobs, provided critical services and stimulate growth in distresserd neighborhoods on an environmentally sustainable basis,” Joe senior vice president for structured finance at Enterprise, said in a Through the sale of tax credits, Enterprise help s raise money from private investors in order to help developers fund new projects.
It has helpede fund a number of projects inGreater Baltimore, includint part of the East Baltimore Development Belvedere Square, and Miller’s Court, the former Censux Building in Baltimore City being converted into a mix of nonprofift office space and rental apartments for city teachers. As part of that Enterprise established a Green Communities program about five years ago to focue on green residential buildingsin low-income neighborhoods. The idea with that which has helpedfund 14,5000 green affordable homeds across 30 states, was to help creatw affordable housing and cut down on energt costs for residents in distressed neighborhoods.
Enterprise was recently awarderd $95 million in New Markegt Tax Credits, funded through the American Recovery andReinvestment Act, whicjh it hopes to use to expand the Green Communities program to commercial and mixed-uswe projects. Enterprise hopes to focus on commerciap developments that feature energy efficiency and renewablseenergy techniques. It is placingb an emphasis on transit-oriented development s and former brownfield sites being redeveloped intonew

Monday, April 2, 2012

Should Elderly Drivers Need a Doctor's Note? - ABC News (blog)

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