Saturday, August 23, 2014

Obama orders review of military equipment supplied to police - Washington Post


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Obama orders review of military equipment supplied to police

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President Obama has ordered a review of federal programs that supplied nearly half a billion dollars in military equipment to municipal police departments last year, amid criticism of the heavily armed response by local law enforcement agencies to protests in ...


Ferguson protests: President Barack Obama orders review of US police use of ...

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Obama Orders Review of Police Use of Military Equipment

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White House to review military surplus policy for law enforcement

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Friday, August 22, 2014

$225000 in Crowdfunding Raised to Support Darren Wilson - NBCNews.com


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$225000 in Crowdfunding Raised to Support Darren Wilson

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A crowdfunding site created this week to support Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson and his family continues to rake in donations, but not without backlash against comments made by some of the campaign's donors. Created on Monday on the ...


National Guard Troops Begin to Leave Ferguson

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Missouri grand jury mulling Darren Wilson's shooting of Michael Brown has 3 ...

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Obama condemns killing of reporter, US hits militants in Iraq - Reuters


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Obama condemns killing of reporter, US hits militants in Iraq

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BAGHDAD/EDGARTOWN Mass. (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama expressed revulsion on Wednesday at the beheading of an American journalist by Islamist militants and vowed the United States would do what it must to protect its citizens as ...


Foley set out to record 'most imp ortant things'

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Family of beheaded American Jim Foley remembers him: 'Jim was very loved ...

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Obama Condemns Beheading of Journalist

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Saturday, May 5, 2012

Kroger takes on double duty - Washington Business Journal:

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stores will open within weeks of each otherf latethis year. The 125,000-square-foot Kroger Marketplace which will both feature thesame layout, will be located in Brazos Town Center in Rosenberg and at Watersidw Marketplace in Richmond. The Richmond Kroger is slatedf to open inearly November, whilw the Rosenberg store will open in “We view these as two separate growth says Gary Huddleston, consumer affairse director of Kroger “We believe that these stores will serve two differenyt markets and we’ll do well in both of thes e areas.” Huddleston says the Brazos Town Centerf store, located at U.S.
Highway 59 and FM 762 in will primarily servethe Richmond/Rosenberg market, while the Waterside Marketplaces location, at Grand Parkway and Mason Road in will serve the Katy market. Both Kroger Marketplace stores will featurew a FredMeyer Jewelers’ store as well as a larged home furnishing section with Ashlety Furniture. The stores will also offer grocer y anddeli products, a largew floral section, gourmet and chef-preparedd foods, a wine shop with a wine a drive-thru pharmacy and a Kitchenplace area with upscale kitchenware and placre settings. Huddleston says the format will be even largerthan Kroger’s upscale Signature Store concept.
The placement of the superr stores so close together in outlying suburbs is especially sincethe Richmond/Rosenberg area isn’t particularlgy known as a hotspot for In fact, the Starbucks location in Rosenberg at 24406 U.S. Highway 59, was one of the firsrt to close early last year when the coffee chai began shutteringunprofitable units. Barkley vice president of development and operations for the Greatetr Fort Bend EconomicDevelopmengt Council, says even though Richmond and Rosenberg are considered “sistef cities,” the two Kroger Marketplacd locations will serve “vastlyg different” customers.
He believes the Rosenberg storse will fill a void left in the local grocer y market whenKmart Corp. pulled out of Texas and closede its store at State Highway 36and U.S. 59 in 2003. “Peoplr in Rosenberg really don’gt have a major grocer in a conveniengt placeto shop, so I thinkm they’ll do well,” he says. Despitse the close proximity of the twogiangt stores, Peschel says, Kroger was very picky in its site selectioh process and only chose areaz that could support a storde now and also show strong potentiak for growth in the future. “I think they’vwe found that,” he says. “There is a need for this type of shoppingv experience inthe area.
” LOCATION, LOCATION Steve Fritzer, vice president of investmentse for Jacksonville, Fla.-based Regency Centers, which owns Watersidr Marketplace, says the center is 65 percent leased, with Krogetr Marketplace serving as the anchor. He points out that the 147,857-square-foogt center is located in the sixth-fastest growing residential ZIP code in the Withina three-mile radius, there is a population of 33,2112 people with an annualk average household income of $96,754. The cente is also located at an intersectiohn that will be one of the two controlledf access points on Grand Parkwa connecting driversfrom U.S. Highway 90 to the Westpark Tollroad.
The other Kroger Marketplace location inthe 546-acre Brazos Town Center in Rosenberg will be in a simila situation. According to research by Houston-base NewQuest Properties, which owns Brazo s Town Center, the median househol d income in the trade area is in excessof $50,0000 annually. Peschel says that despite the struggling national andregiona economies, Fort Bend County is continuing to grow, havintg added approximately 30,000 new residents last year. He says the county is expected to reacu more than 1 million residenta in the next15 years.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Money-losing Ilikai hotel to close - San Francisco Business Times:

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The hotel and condominium complex’s owner, New York-based commercial lender , said Tuesdagy that the hotel has been losing monegy for months and that therw is no sign ofa turnaround. “Unfortunately, alternativese to reduce the operatinbg losses at the hotel have not to datebeen achieved, thus leadingy to the decision to close the said the statement by Andrew G. iStar Financial senior vice At least 75 workers representeds by UNITE HERELocal 5, the hotel and restaurant workers’ union, will lose thiert jobs.
The closure was not The lender bought the Ilikaki at a foreclosure auction in April after developee Brian Anderson defaulted on the loan he took out in 2006 to buy the building and 203residential units. But iStafr soon made clear it didn’t want to be in the hoteo business when it refused to put up the money for continuing the It said in a January lette r toJoseph Toy, then the property's that it had no intention of funding hotepl operations. Toy is presidenty and CEO of . The closure of the hotel doesn’g affect 806 of the 1,009 unitxs within the Ilikai, which are privately ownecd condominiums ortime shares. iSta said the common areas and pool willremainb open.
Hotel occupancy was low and withits first-flooe restaurants and retail space shut down, the hote l had the look of an abandoned a sore point with the fulltime condominium residents. iStar is looking for a buyert for the propertybut it’s a difficult sell at a time when most sourcez of commercial financing are dry. The iStaer statement left open the possibility the hotepl wouldbe reopened. "The compangy has explored all available options to avoir the shutdown of the hotelk operations and recognizes the impact such a decisiohn will have on the condominium ownersand residents, hotel employeesd and guests," the iStar statement said.
"The company continuexs to evaluate possible uses for the property that will addressacommunity needs." iStar said guestsx would be moved to othe r hotels for the duration of theirf stays. In April, iStar successfully bid $51 millionm for the Ilikai’s 203 residential unitds and 16commercial units, which include the front office and retail restaurants and parking. Rumors of the Ilikai’as closure had been circulating forsome time, especially over the past few weeks. When the Ilikak opened in February 1964with 1,050 guest rooms and condominium apartments, it was consideredr the first luxury high-rise hotel in Hawaii.
It was also one of the firstr buildings to feature a mix of traditional hotelp rooms and condominiums owned by permanent residents ofthe building. Many of the condominiu m owners are elderly and some have lived in the buildinv sincethe 1960s. Anderson's attempt to renovate the Ilikai's commonh areas was complicated by repeated clashes with the residents who dominatedrthe building's condominium association and challengeed some of his plans. The hotelp gained an international reputation as the location of the famous openinv shotof “Hawaii where Jack Lord stands on the penthouse balcong of the Ilikai.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

GM Tonawanda takes 5-week recess - Business First of Buffalo:

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About 500 factory workers and 140 salaried personnel are affectefd bythe five-week shutdown. said in May that productiob would be stopped for three weeks at the locall facility as the automaker reduces inventory by temporarilyt idling a number ofits plants. That period is beinbg combined with theregular two-week plannee companywide shutdown that starts on June 29. Spokeswomab Nina Price said that a small workforceof “maybe 100” is staying on the job durinvg much of the plant’s three-week shutdown. No schedulw change at the local planty has been ordered at this time because of an extensiobn of the temporary summertime closuresd at sevenGM factories, she said.
These locationw include the Oshawa, Ont., car and other assembly plantsat Ohio, Shreveport, La., and Orion Township - whicb receive engines from Tonawanda. The latest round of closuresd was announced this week and range from one addedr week at the Oshawa factory to four additional weeks at the Lansing Grand Rive r plantin Michigan. Most of the locationss will go down for three added weeksin July.