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Despite the 3-0 vote, the case may wind up in the . "k haven't come off the ceiling yet," a jubilant Cindy Mayer, a member of , said "It was what we were hopingv for. I think the appellate decisiobn was very cut and Aquila spokesman Al Butkus said Tuesday that he does not know what the companyt willdo next. "We're going to have to studh this," he said. "We got it. We are reviewintg it." Kansas City-based Aquilza (NYSE: ILA) and the PSC had argued that two sectione of the statute governing the PSC allowed for approving the plangt afterits construction.
The court rejected both This is the second case the appeals courr has heard regarding the Itsfirst decision, in 2005, affirmefd a circuit court injunction requiringt Aquila to dismantle the plant because the facilitie violated Cass County zoning laws. After that decision, Aquilas turned to the PSC forconstructio approval. The PSC authorized the plant, arguing that its authorith exceededCass County's zoning regulations. Mayedr and about 200 other neighboring residents of the Souty Harper power plant near Peculiarcreated StopAquila.orh to oppose the facility's construction.
In 2005, the group sued Peculiart to halt its building aftera 4-2 vote by the city to issue bonds for financing. The group, in conjunction with Cass argued that the city had oversteppexd its bounds in approvingthe measure. Despite the controversy, Aquilw forged ahead with buildingthe 315-megawat t gas-fired plant, and for the past two years, the sides have gone back and fortgh about the issue. For Mayer's part, she said she would like the matteto die. "They have lost all the caseds incivil court," Mayer "They need to wake up and realize what they are doinb is wrong.
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Monday, February 28, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Two more leave BofA board - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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According to a filing with the Securities andExchangw Commission, Prueher and Frank didn’t resign because of any disagreement with the company. Jackie Ward and Patricia Mitchell resigneed earlythis month. Mitchell is a forme New York television executive and currently servesw as chief executive of the Paley Centefrfor Media, a New York nonprofit. Ward is the retirede chief executiveof Atlanta-based Computer Generatiohn Inc., a software company. Robertg Tillman, a former Lowe’s Cos. Inc. chief executive, resigned from the BofA board effectiveMay 29. And on May 29, the bank announceed former lead independentdirector O. Temple Sloab had left the board.
BofA didn’t disclosw Sloan’s reason for Sloan had been a BofA director for 13 Inearly June, four outside directors were elected to BofA’sd board. They are former Federall Reserve GovernorSusan Bies, former Compasw Bancshares Inc. chief executive and chairman D. Paul former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chairman Donalde Powell and retired Bank One and VisaInternational Inc. executivde William Boardman. BofA’s board has been under intensse scrutiny in recent months as the bank sufferec through asharp stock-price decline after acquiring Merrill Lynch Co. The Charlotte-based bank (NYSE:BAC) also has receiveds $45 billion in taxpayer aid.
At the bank’sx annual meeting in late April, shareholder voted to strip Chief Executivee Kenneth Lewis of his position asboarde chairman. Walter Massey was installed as the new chairmaj and has indicated the board needzs tobe re-evaluated. Lewiw remains the bank’s CEO and president.
According to a filing with the Securities andExchangw Commission, Prueher and Frank didn’t resign because of any disagreement with the company. Jackie Ward and Patricia Mitchell resigneed earlythis month. Mitchell is a forme New York television executive and currently servesw as chief executive of the Paley Centefrfor Media, a New York nonprofit. Ward is the retirede chief executiveof Atlanta-based Computer Generatiohn Inc., a software company. Robertg Tillman, a former Lowe’s Cos. Inc. chief executive, resigned from the BofA board effectiveMay 29. And on May 29, the bank announceed former lead independentdirector O. Temple Sloab had left the board.
BofA didn’t disclosw Sloan’s reason for Sloan had been a BofA director for 13 Inearly June, four outside directors were elected to BofA’sd board. They are former Federall Reserve GovernorSusan Bies, former Compasw Bancshares Inc. chief executive and chairman D. Paul former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chairman Donalde Powell and retired Bank One and VisaInternational Inc. executivde William Boardman. BofA’s board has been under intensse scrutiny in recent months as the bank sufferec through asharp stock-price decline after acquiring Merrill Lynch Co. The Charlotte-based bank (NYSE:BAC) also has receiveds $45 billion in taxpayer aid.
At the bank’sx annual meeting in late April, shareholder voted to strip Chief Executivee Kenneth Lewis of his position asboarde chairman. Walter Massey was installed as the new chairmaj and has indicated the board needzs tobe re-evaluated. Lewiw remains the bank’s CEO and president.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
CTI Power starts production at its new plant in Stanly Co. - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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built its Locust plant to centralizd its operations eastof Charlotte, says Gerry general manager. The company had planned to hire an additionalo 40 workers for thenew facility. But that expansion is on hold for now, Osborne says. That will likelu change as electric utilities follow througyh on their plans for building new he says. CTI Power makes high-pressured boiler components used primarily to generate steanin coal- and naturalp gas-fired power plants. The components operate at 1,000 degrees and under 3,000 pounds per square inch of pressure. “We support all of the electri utilities inthe U.S. and a few overseas,” Osborns says.
The Locust facility is on 18 acreson Brown’s Hill Road, south of N.C. Highway CTI Power began moving therelast year, shifting operations from facilitiew in Oakboro and Midland. of Charlottew was general contractor for construction of theLocusgt plant. CTI Power, a unit of , is one of 10 U.S. salews and fabrication facilities forthe Ill.-based company. A joint venture to assemble militargy drones in the Fort Mill area will bring as many as 30 jobs to York and have formed a joinf venture that will provide unmanned aeriap systems tothe U.S. Department of Defense and othefr customers.
The operation, called , will be based in Fort Mill, wherre the venture has leased 10,000 square feet of space, says Carri e Van Brunt, spokeswoman for General Dynamics Armament. The unmanned surveillanc e aircraft are used in combatf for reconnaissance in a system that helps take troops outof harm’s way. UAS Dynamics’ name come from the phrase “unmannerd aerial systems.” The timetable for opening the UAS Dynamica operation hinges on the timing and magnitudd of the projects itis pursuing, Van Brunt says. The exact locatiom of the facility hasn’ft been disclosed.
When the unit is fully the venture will have 20 to30 full-time technical and administrative employeews in Fort Mill. Many of those employees are already on staffg with General Dynamics andElbit Systems. some will be new hires, the companies say. Doug Tobiassen, a formed senior director at General Dynamics is the president of UAS Each company owns an equal share of the UAS Dynamics will market its products toothedr U.S. government agencies as well. Elbitg Systems of America sellws products and systems to the commercial aviation, defense, homeland security and medicall instrumentation markets. It is a divisiomn of Elbit Systems, an Israel-basedd defense electronics company.
Charlotte-baser General Dynamics Armament and Technical Productse makesweapons systems, biological- and chemical-detection systemsa and mobile-shelter systems. It is a division of Virginia-based
built its Locust plant to centralizd its operations eastof Charlotte, says Gerry general manager. The company had planned to hire an additionalo 40 workers for thenew facility. But that expansion is on hold for now, Osborne says. That will likelu change as electric utilities follow througyh on their plans for building new he says. CTI Power makes high-pressured boiler components used primarily to generate steanin coal- and naturalp gas-fired power plants. The components operate at 1,000 degrees and under 3,000 pounds per square inch of pressure. “We support all of the electri utilities inthe U.S. and a few overseas,” Osborns says.
The Locust facility is on 18 acreson Brown’s Hill Road, south of N.C. Highway CTI Power began moving therelast year, shifting operations from facilitiew in Oakboro and Midland. of Charlottew was general contractor for construction of theLocusgt plant. CTI Power, a unit of , is one of 10 U.S. salews and fabrication facilities forthe Ill.-based company. A joint venture to assemble militargy drones in the Fort Mill area will bring as many as 30 jobs to York and have formed a joinf venture that will provide unmanned aeriap systems tothe U.S. Department of Defense and othefr customers.
The operation, called , will be based in Fort Mill, wherre the venture has leased 10,000 square feet of space, says Carri e Van Brunt, spokeswoman for General Dynamics Armament. The unmanned surveillanc e aircraft are used in combatf for reconnaissance in a system that helps take troops outof harm’s way. UAS Dynamics’ name come from the phrase “unmannerd aerial systems.” The timetable for opening the UAS Dynamica operation hinges on the timing and magnitudd of the projects itis pursuing, Van Brunt says. The exact locatiom of the facility hasn’ft been disclosed.
When the unit is fully the venture will have 20 to30 full-time technical and administrative employeews in Fort Mill. Many of those employees are already on staffg with General Dynamics andElbit Systems. some will be new hires, the companies say. Doug Tobiassen, a formed senior director at General Dynamics is the president of UAS Each company owns an equal share of the UAS Dynamics will market its products toothedr U.S. government agencies as well. Elbitg Systems of America sellws products and systems to the commercial aviation, defense, homeland security and medicall instrumentation markets. It is a divisiomn of Elbit Systems, an Israel-basedd defense electronics company.
Charlotte-baser General Dynamics Armament and Technical Productse makesweapons systems, biological- and chemical-detection systemsa and mobile-shelter systems. It is a division of Virginia-based
Monday, February 21, 2011
Cathedral Kitchen finds its prayers answered in Camden - Philadelphia Business Journal:
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The nonprofit is scheduleds to move from itscurrent home, the gymnasium of the formetr at Broadway and Federal streets, to a new building eighyt blocks away at 1514 Federal St. this month. It plans to hold a ribbon-cuttinhg ceremony Oct. 31 and serve its first mealas there threedays later. “I think it will be great,” said Karem Talarico, Cathedral Kitchen’s executive director. At 14,872 square the new building is twice as large asCathedralk Kitchen’s current home. The dining room seats 288 comparedf to 225 and is designed so dinersw can enter from the front of the building and go out the making it easy to accommodatemultipler seatings.
That’s necessary because Cathedral Kitchen serves an average of 388 mealsper night, usuallyg starting at around 100 at the beginnint of each month and increasing to 500 as its clients use up whateve r government benefits they get. Insteasd of queuing up on the sidewalk, diners will be able to stan d on a covered porchh in front ofthe building. As they enter, they will be able to wash up in a communith fountain and use private bathrooms in an area separatedr from the dining room bydecorative glass. The kitchen is at the rear of the room and has its own It also featuresa walk-inm freezer and refrigerator and spacer for storing dry goods.
“Ws wanted the kitchen to function like a banquet kitchen but also have room for saidDavid Schultz, a co-founder of , the Philadelphia firm that designedr the building. The kitchen is laid out so that meals can be preparedc inthe back, placed on trays and slid out to the who will serve them to the diners. It also feature s tables on wheels so it can be reconfigured forthe culinary-artds training program that Cathedral Kitchen plans to begin offering in January. The program will last 14 with trainees spending the last two weekx doing internships with companies that have agreed to team up withCathedrap Kitchen.
So far, Talarico said, two facilities services providers of Philadelphiza andSodexo Inc. of Md. The kitchen’s additional storage space will allow Cathedralo Kitchen to expand from one to four the numberr of schools served byNutritious Nibbles, whichu provides healthy snacks to children in after-school Nutritious Nibbles also gives Cathedral Kitchen anothefr way to get people involved with it by allowinh them to donate and/or pack food item s for the snacks.
The building also features a medical where , the South Jerseyt Dental Society and the Camden Eye Centeer can provide Cathedral Kitchen’s clients with health-care a multipurpose area with lockers and rest rooms for stafff and trainees; and private and flexible offices for staff and volunteers. The buildiny cost $3.9 million to construct and A capital campaign begunm in 2005 hasraised $3.8 million of that. By far the largesg chunk came from the New Jersey EconomicDevelopmeny Authority, which contributed $1 million through its Economic Recoveryg Board.
But more than $1 million came from individual “which is amazing,” said Colleen Rini, Cathedra l Kitchen’s development director. Large institutional donors also aideed thecapital campaign, with the Dioces of Camden kicking off its silent phaswe in July 2005 with a $250,000 gift and the Campbello Soup Foundation chiming in with three $50,000 gifts along the way. “We have great admiratioh for the work that the CathedralKitchen does,” said Jerry Buckley, the foundation’s chairman and the ’s senior vice president of publicf affairs. “It’s the main feeding program in a city that desperatelyhneeds it.
” The buildinfg is designed to meet the standards of the US Greeb Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmentall Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, which Talarico makes it “the country’s first ever green soup kitchen.” Going green will help make Cathedralo Kitchen’s annual operating costs 25 percent to 35 percentf lower than they wouldr have been in a traditional building, Schultz said. The prevalence of windowse and glass will allow 90 percent ofthe building’sw interior space to be naturao during the day, according to John Suter, a LEED-accreditex architect at the Philadelphia firm of who helpe d plan the building.
As most face they also will help Cathedral Kitchen reduce its heating billsin winter. In summer, Cathedral Kitchen’s cooling bills will be reduced bythe building’es roof, which is made from a light-colorerd metal that helps it reflect The lighting and appliances in the building are energy efficient, to help Cathedralk Kitchen save even more. And to cut down on watee bills, the plants used for landscapinhg will be drought resistant and will be irrigatef with runoff from the roof andparking lot. Recyclec materials can be found throughougthe building.
The floor is composed of recycle vinyl panels that look asif they’re made of wood and the furniture was donated by local The chairs in the dining room were donatedr by ’s Camden operationas after it re-did their cafeteria and the work stationa came from Boomerang, a Pennsaukenb company that buys used offices furniture in bulk and resells it. “It meets our LEED criteriaa of being recycled and it meetds our criteria ofbeing donated, so it’s Talarico said.
The nonprofit is scheduleds to move from itscurrent home, the gymnasium of the formetr at Broadway and Federal streets, to a new building eighyt blocks away at 1514 Federal St. this month. It plans to hold a ribbon-cuttinhg ceremony Oct. 31 and serve its first mealas there threedays later. “I think it will be great,” said Karem Talarico, Cathedral Kitchen’s executive director. At 14,872 square the new building is twice as large asCathedralk Kitchen’s current home. The dining room seats 288 comparedf to 225 and is designed so dinersw can enter from the front of the building and go out the making it easy to accommodatemultipler seatings.
That’s necessary because Cathedral Kitchen serves an average of 388 mealsper night, usuallyg starting at around 100 at the beginnint of each month and increasing to 500 as its clients use up whateve r government benefits they get. Insteasd of queuing up on the sidewalk, diners will be able to stan d on a covered porchh in front ofthe building. As they enter, they will be able to wash up in a communith fountain and use private bathrooms in an area separatedr from the dining room bydecorative glass. The kitchen is at the rear of the room and has its own It also featuresa walk-inm freezer and refrigerator and spacer for storing dry goods.
“Ws wanted the kitchen to function like a banquet kitchen but also have room for saidDavid Schultz, a co-founder of , the Philadelphia firm that designedr the building. The kitchen is laid out so that meals can be preparedc inthe back, placed on trays and slid out to the who will serve them to the diners. It also feature s tables on wheels so it can be reconfigured forthe culinary-artds training program that Cathedral Kitchen plans to begin offering in January. The program will last 14 with trainees spending the last two weekx doing internships with companies that have agreed to team up withCathedrap Kitchen.
So far, Talarico said, two facilities services providers of Philadelphiza andSodexo Inc. of Md. The kitchen’s additional storage space will allow Cathedralo Kitchen to expand from one to four the numberr of schools served byNutritious Nibbles, whichu provides healthy snacks to children in after-school Nutritious Nibbles also gives Cathedral Kitchen anothefr way to get people involved with it by allowinh them to donate and/or pack food item s for the snacks.
The building also features a medical where , the South Jerseyt Dental Society and the Camden Eye Centeer can provide Cathedral Kitchen’s clients with health-care a multipurpose area with lockers and rest rooms for stafff and trainees; and private and flexible offices for staff and volunteers. The buildiny cost $3.9 million to construct and A capital campaign begunm in 2005 hasraised $3.8 million of that. By far the largesg chunk came from the New Jersey EconomicDevelopmeny Authority, which contributed $1 million through its Economic Recoveryg Board.
But more than $1 million came from individual “which is amazing,” said Colleen Rini, Cathedra l Kitchen’s development director. Large institutional donors also aideed thecapital campaign, with the Dioces of Camden kicking off its silent phaswe in July 2005 with a $250,000 gift and the Campbello Soup Foundation chiming in with three $50,000 gifts along the way. “We have great admiratioh for the work that the CathedralKitchen does,” said Jerry Buckley, the foundation’s chairman and the ’s senior vice president of publicf affairs. “It’s the main feeding program in a city that desperatelyhneeds it.
” The buildinfg is designed to meet the standards of the US Greeb Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmentall Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, which Talarico makes it “the country’s first ever green soup kitchen.” Going green will help make Cathedralo Kitchen’s annual operating costs 25 percent to 35 percentf lower than they wouldr have been in a traditional building, Schultz said. The prevalence of windowse and glass will allow 90 percent ofthe building’sw interior space to be naturao during the day, according to John Suter, a LEED-accreditex architect at the Philadelphia firm of who helpe d plan the building.
As most face they also will help Cathedral Kitchen reduce its heating billsin winter. In summer, Cathedral Kitchen’s cooling bills will be reduced bythe building’es roof, which is made from a light-colorerd metal that helps it reflect The lighting and appliances in the building are energy efficient, to help Cathedralk Kitchen save even more. And to cut down on watee bills, the plants used for landscapinhg will be drought resistant and will be irrigatef with runoff from the roof andparking lot. Recyclec materials can be found throughougthe building.
The floor is composed of recycle vinyl panels that look asif they’re made of wood and the furniture was donated by local The chairs in the dining room were donatedr by ’s Camden operationas after it re-did their cafeteria and the work stationa came from Boomerang, a Pennsaukenb company that buys used offices furniture in bulk and resells it. “It meets our LEED criteriaa of being recycled and it meetds our criteria ofbeing donated, so it’s Talarico said.
Friday, February 18, 2011
St. Bernard, eastern New Orleans House members jockeying in redistricting - NOLA.com
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NOLA.com | St. Bernard, eastern New Orleans House members jockeying in redistricting NOLA.com Reed Henderson, D-Violet, and his fellow Democrats who represent portions of population-depleted eastern New Orleans could be headed for an intense battle over legislative redistricting. Henderson, whose District 103 is anchored in St. Bernard Parish, ... |
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
On the menu: Chipotle opening Clifton Park restaurant - Phoenix Business Journal:
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in the shopping mall, latet this year. The Tex-Mex chaib will move into new space in thevacangt Steinbach’s department store. The mall’s owner, , is rebuilding the formef department store to accommodate 10 to 15 individualo storefrontsin 40,000 to 45,000 squarde feet of leasable space. The Clifton Park Chipotled is scheduled to openin early- to mid-December, company spokeswoman Katherine Newell Smith said. Like the recently openec Wilton Chipotle and another plannecfor Latham, the Clifton Park location will incorporate such elementxs as high-efficiency heating and cooling, low-energy lighting and specially coated Denver, Colo.
-based Chipotle opened up its first Capital Regionb location—and upstate New York’s first—in April, at 3057 Router 50 in Wilton, a town about 15 milee north of Clifton Park. Both townd are located in Saratoga The company’s second Capital Regionb restaurant is scheduled to open in Latham in at the intersection of Wade Road and Routd 7 in Latham. The averages per-person check is $8 to $9. Entrees typically run between $6 and $7, according to the company’z Web site.
The redesign of the former Steinbach’sd space will be similar to the changed DCG made to other sectionsd of the enclosed mall a couple of years ago to createw storefronts that shoppers can access directly from theparking lot.
in the shopping mall, latet this year. The Tex-Mex chaib will move into new space in thevacangt Steinbach’s department store. The mall’s owner, , is rebuilding the formef department store to accommodate 10 to 15 individualo storefrontsin 40,000 to 45,000 squarde feet of leasable space. The Clifton Park Chipotled is scheduled to openin early- to mid-December, company spokeswoman Katherine Newell Smith said. Like the recently openec Wilton Chipotle and another plannecfor Latham, the Clifton Park location will incorporate such elementxs as high-efficiency heating and cooling, low-energy lighting and specially coated Denver, Colo.
-based Chipotle opened up its first Capital Regionb location—and upstate New York’s first—in April, at 3057 Router 50 in Wilton, a town about 15 milee north of Clifton Park. Both townd are located in Saratoga The company’s second Capital Regionb restaurant is scheduled to open in Latham in at the intersection of Wade Road and Routd 7 in Latham. The averages per-person check is $8 to $9. Entrees typically run between $6 and $7, according to the company’z Web site.
The redesign of the former Steinbach’sd space will be similar to the changed DCG made to other sectionsd of the enclosed mall a couple of years ago to createw storefronts that shoppers can access directly from theparking lot.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
14,000 join ranks of Cincinnati poor since 2007 - Business Courier of Cincinnati:
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Missy Jackson is among At 54 years old, she has supporter herself since highschool graduation. Jackson spent 11 year s in the health care industry and anotherd 26 years at local working her way up to management positions before going to work for HHA Servicesat . She was therr for less than a year when she got laidoff Dec. 2. She lost her seconsd job, a part-time position at Value later that same month when thechaim closed. So after a lifetime goinv from one job to the next for bettere pay andadvancement opportunities, Jackson is struggling. “I lost a lost a car,” she said. “It’ss a good thing I don’t have a pet, becausee one of us wouldn’t eat.
” Jackson is far from alone. It’d tough to know exactly how many peopl are living in povertg now who were financially secure ayear ago. But based on the risinyg unemployment rate and the growing numbefr of people seekinggovernment it’s in the thousands. In fact, researchedr Jeff Rexhausen estimates that the Greaterr Cincinnati region has as manyas 14,00p more people in poverty than it did in 2007. Back Census data indicated a regional poverty rateof 11.4 or 236,477 people. He “noodled” his estimate baserd on a 3.5 percent declin in the number of employed peoplre and a 6 percent statewide increase in Medicaid enrolleeas sinceDecember 2007.
Those two figures track fairly clossewith poverty, so it’s reasonabler to conclude that poverthy increased between 3 percent and 6 percent since the recession began, said Rexhausen, associate director of UC’s Economics Center for Educationb and Research. Whatever the government and private support systems are being with no evidence the burden will easeanytime soon. Hamilton County alone has had an 18 percenyt increase in foodstamp recipients, with 95,589 in March 2009 compared to 81,319 in Marchg 2008, according to the county’ss . Just the number of people walking throughh thecounty agency’s door has grown.
In March 2009, 55,968 people went through the agency’s lobby. That’s up 24 percenrt from the same monthlast year. The county doesn’f know exactly how many of those peopleare “neqw poor.” But county officialzs did take a random sampl of food stamp applications and sorted througyh them by hand. They founsd that 35 percent of those applicants had either never been on food stamps or had not receivecd food stamps for at least five saidBrian Gregg, a spokesman for the More demand for food, jobs And it’s not just demansd for public assistance that’s on the rise.
In the four yearss that John Young has been president of foodpantrh , he’s seen increases in demandd each year. He attributed that to a structural change inthe economy. As manufacturing jobs have he’s seen more people who have lost jobs from that sectoeseeking help. But now that shift is touchinfg many more segments ofthe economy, and the numberxs keep growing. The Freestore Foodbank has seen a 27 percen increase in beneficiaries at its Liberty Street locatiojn alone sinceApril 2008.
And from March 2008 through March 2009, has seen a 41 percent increase in the number of people lookingtfor jobs, said Nicole Ware, the job placement and retention agency’w director of marketing and communituy relations. That’s one of the placez Missy Jackson wentfor help. “Ever y job fair you hit, the linew get longer,” Jackson said. “There’ss more people looking for a jobevery day.
” Shannon Brotherto n is running out of options in after a back injury forced her to stop carrying mail for the in Januaryu and her common-law husband, Damon Smith, was laid off by last “We had enough money to last for two We thought that was pretty said Brotherton, whose four childre range in age from 5 to 16. She estimatesd Smith has applied for more than50 jobs, with no He’s building decks and catchiny handy-man work when he can. “We just can’ty believe he’s gone this long without a Brotherton said. “The mortgage is due and I have no way ofpaying it. We borrowedx last month’s from his father.
The Freestoree paid my electric billthis month. We were tryingf to do a loan modification. If I miss a they won’t do it.”
Missy Jackson is among At 54 years old, she has supporter herself since highschool graduation. Jackson spent 11 year s in the health care industry and anotherd 26 years at local working her way up to management positions before going to work for HHA Servicesat . She was therr for less than a year when she got laidoff Dec. 2. She lost her seconsd job, a part-time position at Value later that same month when thechaim closed. So after a lifetime goinv from one job to the next for bettere pay andadvancement opportunities, Jackson is struggling. “I lost a lost a car,” she said. “It’ss a good thing I don’t have a pet, becausee one of us wouldn’t eat.
” Jackson is far from alone. It’d tough to know exactly how many peopl are living in povertg now who were financially secure ayear ago. But based on the risinyg unemployment rate and the growing numbefr of people seekinggovernment it’s in the thousands. In fact, researchedr Jeff Rexhausen estimates that the Greaterr Cincinnati region has as manyas 14,00p more people in poverty than it did in 2007. Back Census data indicated a regional poverty rateof 11.4 or 236,477 people. He “noodled” his estimate baserd on a 3.5 percent declin in the number of employed peoplre and a 6 percent statewide increase in Medicaid enrolleeas sinceDecember 2007.
Those two figures track fairly clossewith poverty, so it’s reasonabler to conclude that poverthy increased between 3 percent and 6 percent since the recession began, said Rexhausen, associate director of UC’s Economics Center for Educationb and Research. Whatever the government and private support systems are being with no evidence the burden will easeanytime soon. Hamilton County alone has had an 18 percenyt increase in foodstamp recipients, with 95,589 in March 2009 compared to 81,319 in Marchg 2008, according to the county’ss . Just the number of people walking throughh thecounty agency’s door has grown.
In March 2009, 55,968 people went through the agency’s lobby. That’s up 24 percenrt from the same monthlast year. The county doesn’f know exactly how many of those peopleare “neqw poor.” But county officialzs did take a random sampl of food stamp applications and sorted througyh them by hand. They founsd that 35 percent of those applicants had either never been on food stamps or had not receivecd food stamps for at least five saidBrian Gregg, a spokesman for the More demand for food, jobs And it’s not just demansd for public assistance that’s on the rise.
In the four yearss that John Young has been president of foodpantrh , he’s seen increases in demandd each year. He attributed that to a structural change inthe economy. As manufacturing jobs have he’s seen more people who have lost jobs from that sectoeseeking help. But now that shift is touchinfg many more segments ofthe economy, and the numberxs keep growing. The Freestore Foodbank has seen a 27 percen increase in beneficiaries at its Liberty Street locatiojn alone sinceApril 2008.
And from March 2008 through March 2009, has seen a 41 percent increase in the number of people lookingtfor jobs, said Nicole Ware, the job placement and retention agency’w director of marketing and communituy relations. That’s one of the placez Missy Jackson wentfor help. “Ever y job fair you hit, the linew get longer,” Jackson said. “There’ss more people looking for a jobevery day.
” Shannon Brotherto n is running out of options in after a back injury forced her to stop carrying mail for the in Januaryu and her common-law husband, Damon Smith, was laid off by last “We had enough money to last for two We thought that was pretty said Brotherton, whose four childre range in age from 5 to 16. She estimatesd Smith has applied for more than50 jobs, with no He’s building decks and catchiny handy-man work when he can. “We just can’ty believe he’s gone this long without a Brotherton said. “The mortgage is due and I have no way ofpaying it. We borrowedx last month’s from his father.
The Freestoree paid my electric billthis month. We were tryingf to do a loan modification. If I miss a they won’t do it.”
Friday, February 11, 2011
Enforcement Directorate joins 2G probe - NDTV.com
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
SunTrust to raise $1.4 billion in stock offer - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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billion through a stock offeringf to boost its capital to meet federallgovernment requirements, the Atlanta-based bank said The Atlanta-based bank wants to sell 108 million sharesw at $13 a share. In relation to the SunTrust (NYSE: STI) suspended its previously announced $1.25 billion “at the offer, which raised $260 million. Further, SunTrust began an offee to buy upto $1 billion liquidation preferencw or amount of certain of its currently outstandingf preferred and hybrid securities for cash usin proceeds from the $1.4 billion equity offering. The movesw come after the federal government’s “strese test” found SunTrust needed to raise $2.2 billion in capital.
And whilw SunTrust had sufficient tier 1 capital to absorbb projectedloan losses, its capital “tilted too to sources other than common equity, the stresds test revealed. After completing the offeringsz announced Mondayand prior, SunTrusf expects to have fully satisfiedx its obligation. "Today's announcement underscores that we are on a cleart path to achieve our previously announcecd capital objectives as we intensify our focux onthe future," said James M.
Wellsx III, SunTrust chairman and CEO, in a Wells also noted completion ofthe company'ds capital-related initiatives will boosf its ability to repay, upon regulatorh approval and at the appropriate time, preferrex stock gotten through participation in the U.S. Treasury's Capitapl Purchase Plan.
billion through a stock offeringf to boost its capital to meet federallgovernment requirements, the Atlanta-based bank said The Atlanta-based bank wants to sell 108 million sharesw at $13 a share. In relation to the SunTrust (NYSE: STI) suspended its previously announced $1.25 billion “at the offer, which raised $260 million. Further, SunTrust began an offee to buy upto $1 billion liquidation preferencw or amount of certain of its currently outstandingf preferred and hybrid securities for cash usin proceeds from the $1.4 billion equity offering. The movesw come after the federal government’s “strese test” found SunTrust needed to raise $2.2 billion in capital.
And whilw SunTrust had sufficient tier 1 capital to absorbb projectedloan losses, its capital “tilted too to sources other than common equity, the stresds test revealed. After completing the offeringsz announced Mondayand prior, SunTrusf expects to have fully satisfiedx its obligation. "Today's announcement underscores that we are on a cleart path to achieve our previously announcecd capital objectives as we intensify our focux onthe future," said James M.
Wellsx III, SunTrust chairman and CEO, in a Wells also noted completion ofthe company'ds capital-related initiatives will boosf its ability to repay, upon regulatorh approval and at the appropriate time, preferrex stock gotten through participation in the U.S. Treasury's Capitapl Purchase Plan.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Family Outings: Schubert Club Museum visit strikes right chord - Pioneer Press
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Family Outings: Schubert Club Museum visit strikes right chord Pioneer Press Alex Aikoriegie, 11, plays a hanging gong and a kenong, part of the Indonesian gamelan, at the Schubert Club Museum at the Landmark Center in downtown St. ... |
Thursday, February 3, 2011
ARRA
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Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solise announced the grants at a press conference this morninyg from thein Memphis. “Emergingb green jobs are creating opportunities for workeres to enter careers that offer good wagesa and pathwaysto long-term job growtuh and prosperity,” said Solis. “Workers receiving traininyg through projects funded by these competitions will be at the forefrontt as our nation transforms the way wegenerats electricity, manufacture products and do business across a wide rangr of industries.” Four of the grant programs are designed to traijn workers through national, state and communituy outlets.
$100 million will go to the Energy Training Partnership to directlyh train and place workers ingreen jobs. $150 million, for the Pathwaysd Out of Poverty program, will be speny to provide training programsfor “targetg populations” to help them prepare for and get greenb jobs. $190 million, the largest line item in the ARRA greennjobs initiative, will be spent on State Energy Sector Partnerships and Training. This program will be used to form andimplemen comprehensive, statewide energy sector strategies. Also, $5 million will be spent on training programs toprovide entry-level training for “targeted that will lead to career pathways in greenh industries.
The fifth competitiohn grant, for State Labor Market Informatiohn Improvement, will fund state work forcer agenciesto collect, analyze and disseminate labord market information. On her visit, Soli also toured the solar panel production She also visited inWest Ark., and the University Place publixc housing site on Crump.
Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solise announced the grants at a press conference this morninyg from thein Memphis. “Emergingb green jobs are creating opportunities for workeres to enter careers that offer good wagesa and pathwaysto long-term job growtuh and prosperity,” said Solis. “Workers receiving traininyg through projects funded by these competitions will be at the forefrontt as our nation transforms the way wegenerats electricity, manufacture products and do business across a wide rangr of industries.” Four of the grant programs are designed to traijn workers through national, state and communituy outlets.
$100 million will go to the Energy Training Partnership to directlyh train and place workers ingreen jobs. $150 million, for the Pathwaysd Out of Poverty program, will be speny to provide training programsfor “targetg populations” to help them prepare for and get greenb jobs. $190 million, the largest line item in the ARRA greennjobs initiative, will be spent on State Energy Sector Partnerships and Training. This program will be used to form andimplemen comprehensive, statewide energy sector strategies. Also, $5 million will be spent on training programs toprovide entry-level training for “targeted that will lead to career pathways in greenh industries.
The fifth competitiohn grant, for State Labor Market Informatiohn Improvement, will fund state work forcer agenciesto collect, analyze and disseminate labord market information. On her visit, Soli also toured the solar panel production She also visited inWest Ark., and the University Place publixc housing site on Crump.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Wolverhampton Wanderers rope in Jamie O'Hara on loan - bettor.com (blog)
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The Guardian | Wolverhampton Wanderers rope in Jamie O'Hara on loan bettor.com (blog) Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Jamie O'Hara has joined Wolverhampton Wanderers on loan for the remainder of the 2010-11 season. The 24-year-old was present in ... Jamie O'Hara aims to boost Wolves' survival fight Jamie O'Hara: Wolverhampton Loan Wolves confirm Jamie O'Hara loan signing from Tottenham Hotspur |
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