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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Law firms grapple with economic conditions - Business First of Columbus:
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Zimmer said the economy is takintg its toll on variou s areasof law, and firms specializing in a singlw area are more apt to be hurting. “We’rs holding our own,” Zimmer said. Zimmer said when one area of law is another steps in to takeits It’s like a giant seesaw. For example, at Pickrel, Schaefferd and Ebeling, acquisition-related work has been slow as fewed companies are buyingand selling. However, Zimmee said collections and bankruptcy work, as well as labof and employment law, are up.
Law firms acrosd the Dayton area are contending with themixed bag, as some sectoras remain on the decline and others are gaining Bankruptcy law seems to be one of the top growth In addition to the acquisition legal work associated with start-up companiess has been relatively dry. Zimmer said most aread of corporate business law and securitieeare down. The economy also has taken its toll on realestatw work, development projects and land use Conversely, some areas have remainedf steady, and a few have actually been Michael Moloney, partner in chargre of , said creditors’ rightxs is one of the biggest areas of law because people want what is owed to them.
Particularly, he said preferenc e claims, for clients receiving bankruptcy the firm has seenan uptick. Moloney said litigationn work also has picked up in the slow economy because people are more eagerrto sue. Areas of law not so dependent on the economy have been keeping regional firms Moloney said estate planningremains consistent, as does probatde litigation. Bankruptcy work has been growingt with the surge inbankruptcy filings. U.S. consumer bankruptcy filings increased 36 percen t nationwide in April from the same periodc ayear ago, according to the , which has yet to releas May’s numbers. April was up 3.
5 percent compare to March of this year as with 125,618 compared to 121,413. Chapter 13 filingz have constituted 26 percent of allconsumee cases. Although the full-service plan can those firms aren’t the only ones surviving the Standalone bankruptcy firms have seen some of thebiggestr growth. It has worked out well for Wayned Novick who has been working diligently just to make it throughb the paperwork onhis desk. Between foreclosures and bankruptcy dealing with the banks and the Novick has enough work to ensure he has a places throughthe recession, regardless of how many othed firms pop up beside him.
When Novick set up shop in his law offic near the Dayton Mall sevenyearzs ago, he was the only bankruptcu lawyer near the mall. But with other sectorxs of lawdrying up, Novicki said the scenery outsid e his window has changed lately, and at leastf two others have moved into the area. “It’s becoming like bankruptcy row,” Novick said. His case load is up, and he’d been working 80-hour weeks just to keep up. He hiredx a part-time lawyer in growing his two-person firm. And althougjh bankruptcies are often sadand frustrating, at least he’xs in business, he said. “Bankruptcy law is continuallty rising,” he said.
“People are looking for ways to save so they are spending less on every other type of law and more on the types that can save them in the Novick said all aspects of law are dependenf onthe economy, and althougb it makes for a crazy industry most things even out. “Like everythinyg else in the economy, it’s up and he added. “Some things do well when otherx don’t.”
Zimmer said the economy is takintg its toll on variou s areasof law, and firms specializing in a singlw area are more apt to be hurting. “We’rs holding our own,” Zimmer said. Zimmer said when one area of law is another steps in to takeits It’s like a giant seesaw. For example, at Pickrel, Schaefferd and Ebeling, acquisition-related work has been slow as fewed companies are buyingand selling. However, Zimmee said collections and bankruptcy work, as well as labof and employment law, are up.
Law firms acrosd the Dayton area are contending with themixed bag, as some sectoras remain on the decline and others are gaining Bankruptcy law seems to be one of the top growth In addition to the acquisition legal work associated with start-up companiess has been relatively dry. Zimmer said most aread of corporate business law and securitieeare down. The economy also has taken its toll on realestatw work, development projects and land use Conversely, some areas have remainedf steady, and a few have actually been Michael Moloney, partner in chargre of , said creditors’ rightxs is one of the biggest areas of law because people want what is owed to them.
Particularly, he said preferenc e claims, for clients receiving bankruptcy the firm has seenan uptick. Moloney said litigationn work also has picked up in the slow economy because people are more eagerrto sue. Areas of law not so dependent on the economy have been keeping regional firms Moloney said estate planningremains consistent, as does probatde litigation. Bankruptcy work has been growingt with the surge inbankruptcy filings. U.S. consumer bankruptcy filings increased 36 percen t nationwide in April from the same periodc ayear ago, according to the , which has yet to releas May’s numbers. April was up 3.
5 percent compare to March of this year as with 125,618 compared to 121,413. Chapter 13 filingz have constituted 26 percent of allconsumee cases. Although the full-service plan can those firms aren’t the only ones surviving the Standalone bankruptcy firms have seen some of thebiggestr growth. It has worked out well for Wayned Novick who has been working diligently just to make it throughb the paperwork onhis desk. Between foreclosures and bankruptcy dealing with the banks and the Novick has enough work to ensure he has a places throughthe recession, regardless of how many othed firms pop up beside him.
When Novick set up shop in his law offic near the Dayton Mall sevenyearzs ago, he was the only bankruptcu lawyer near the mall. But with other sectorxs of lawdrying up, Novicki said the scenery outsid e his window has changed lately, and at leastf two others have moved into the area. “It’s becoming like bankruptcy row,” Novick said. His case load is up, and he’d been working 80-hour weeks just to keep up. He hiredx a part-time lawyer in growing his two-person firm. And althougjh bankruptcies are often sadand frustrating, at least he’xs in business, he said. “Bankruptcy law is continuallty rising,” he said.
“People are looking for ways to save so they are spending less on every other type of law and more on the types that can save them in the Novick said all aspects of law are dependenf onthe economy, and althougb it makes for a crazy industry most things even out. “Like everythinyg else in the economy, it’s up and he added. “Some things do well when otherx don’t.”
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Give our (dis)regards to Broadway - New York Post
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
European companies seek stimulus money to locate in Jacksonville - Jacksonville Business Journal:
http://calhealthofficers.org/mission.htm
European alternative energy companies, such as , a subsidiaryg of a French company, and an Italian biodiesel company that the has yet to want to come to Jacksonville for some of the same reasonsz other European companies have recentluylocated here: Access to the port and the growingy Southeast market, cheaper skilled labor and manufacturingv their goods closer to American consumers. “Ths big guys in alternative energy are Europeanbecause they’ve had government support,” said Michael Breen, director of internationa development for Cornerstone, the chamber’s economic development arm.
“Nowe that we’re getting government support, it makez more sense for them tocome over.” Governmentg incentives contained in the federal stimulus program are the big draw for the Saft America won’t builed a $200 million facility at Cecilk Commerce Center and employy about 800 unless it gets a $100 millionm grant through the stimulus said Peter Denoncourt, vice president of manufacturinhg for the company’s Valdosta, Ga., The company expects to find out in July whether it can tap into the $1.5 billioj available for manufacturers of high-efficiency batteries. “We’re pretty optimistic,” Denoncourt said.
“We’re one of the technologt leadersand we’ve been building lithium-ioj batteries for decades.” spokeswoman Jen Stutsman said the department receivedc 165 grant applications by the May 19 deadline. She didn’tr know the total amount of monety requested inthe applications. Like Saft America, the Italian companyh that produces biodiesel fuel from oldtiresd won’t come to town unless it can get tax credits from the city and incentives through the stimulus package. The company, which woulrd bring about 15 jobs, is expectefd to confirm its planes in aboutthree months.
Anotherr Italian company that the chamber has yet to identify extractws silicon from rice husks to buildc solar panels and is also considerin g opening a plantin Jacksonville, Breen said. Several European wind turbine manufacturers are also interested in openint plantsin Jacksonville, but their businesses are also dependen t on plugging into the alternative industry provisions in the stimuluss package. Denoncourt said Saft America was attractede to Jacksonville because ofthe area’s U.S. Navy-trainedr work force, which has the skillzs needed toproduce lithium-ion batteries. The batteried will be sold to the U.S. militar for a hybrid fleet that ranges from truckssto tanks.
The lithium-ion batteries are also increasingly used in passenge r planes because they are about a third lighter thanconventional nickel-cadmiun batteries and so reducs the amount of fuel the planes use, Denoncourt said. The lithium-iob batteries that he hopes to produc e in Jacksonville would also be sold to the telecommunications industrg since their smaller size gives providerse more backup power without forcing them to alteer the infrastructure to handle bigger The planned manufacturing facility would also develop batteries capablse of storingalternative energy.
If Saft America buildsa a facilityin Jacksonville, it would add prestige to the area and possibl spur more alternative energy companies to consider movinyg to Jacksonville, Breen said. The city recently formex a committee headed by President Matt Kenyon to attracr more alternativeenergy companies. Asids from being certified to build energy-efficient Dana B. Kenyon is tappin g into federal stimulus funding through its energyconsultint division, kpower. , which is based in has already been helped by the alternativse energy provisions in the stimulus It expects its annual revenuw to doubleto $12 milliohn this year, said Wayne Hildreth, the company’sa president.
The company, which provides consultingy and installation of wind turbines for schoolwand businesses, benefited from the stimulus package’s 30 percentr investment tax credit. Wind Energ y expects to double its work force of nearly 30 by the end ofthe
European alternative energy companies, such as , a subsidiaryg of a French company, and an Italian biodiesel company that the has yet to want to come to Jacksonville for some of the same reasonsz other European companies have recentluylocated here: Access to the port and the growingy Southeast market, cheaper skilled labor and manufacturingv their goods closer to American consumers. “Ths big guys in alternative energy are Europeanbecause they’ve had government support,” said Michael Breen, director of internationa development for Cornerstone, the chamber’s economic development arm.
“Nowe that we’re getting government support, it makez more sense for them tocome over.” Governmentg incentives contained in the federal stimulus program are the big draw for the Saft America won’t builed a $200 million facility at Cecilk Commerce Center and employy about 800 unless it gets a $100 millionm grant through the stimulus said Peter Denoncourt, vice president of manufacturinhg for the company’s Valdosta, Ga., The company expects to find out in July whether it can tap into the $1.5 billioj available for manufacturers of high-efficiency batteries. “We’re pretty optimistic,” Denoncourt said.
“We’re one of the technologt leadersand we’ve been building lithium-ioj batteries for decades.” spokeswoman Jen Stutsman said the department receivedc 165 grant applications by the May 19 deadline. She didn’tr know the total amount of monety requested inthe applications. Like Saft America, the Italian companyh that produces biodiesel fuel from oldtiresd won’t come to town unless it can get tax credits from the city and incentives through the stimulus package. The company, which woulrd bring about 15 jobs, is expectefd to confirm its planes in aboutthree months.
Anotherr Italian company that the chamber has yet to identify extractws silicon from rice husks to buildc solar panels and is also considerin g opening a plantin Jacksonville, Breen said. Several European wind turbine manufacturers are also interested in openint plantsin Jacksonville, but their businesses are also dependen t on plugging into the alternative industry provisions in the stimuluss package. Denoncourt said Saft America was attractede to Jacksonville because ofthe area’s U.S. Navy-trainedr work force, which has the skillzs needed toproduce lithium-ion batteries. The batteried will be sold to the U.S. militar for a hybrid fleet that ranges from truckssto tanks.
The lithium-ion batteries are also increasingly used in passenge r planes because they are about a third lighter thanconventional nickel-cadmiun batteries and so reducs the amount of fuel the planes use, Denoncourt said. The lithium-iob batteries that he hopes to produc e in Jacksonville would also be sold to the telecommunications industrg since their smaller size gives providerse more backup power without forcing them to alteer the infrastructure to handle bigger The planned manufacturing facility would also develop batteries capablse of storingalternative energy.
If Saft America buildsa a facilityin Jacksonville, it would add prestige to the area and possibl spur more alternative energy companies to consider movinyg to Jacksonville, Breen said. The city recently formex a committee headed by President Matt Kenyon to attracr more alternativeenergy companies. Asids from being certified to build energy-efficient Dana B. Kenyon is tappin g into federal stimulus funding through its energyconsultint division, kpower. , which is based in has already been helped by the alternativse energy provisions in the stimulus It expects its annual revenuw to doubleto $12 milliohn this year, said Wayne Hildreth, the company’sa president.
The company, which provides consultingy and installation of wind turbines for schoolwand businesses, benefited from the stimulus package’s 30 percentr investment tax credit. Wind Energ y expects to double its work force of nearly 30 by the end ofthe
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Troy collision repair business opens Queensbury shop - Baltimore Business Journal:
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has expanded for the first time into anew market, investintg about $1.5 million to open another auto body shop in The location at 619 Quaker Road is the formed Top of the World Auto Body, an 8,000-square-foot buildinvg that sits on about 3.5 said H&V Vice President Vartan Jerian, Jr. The new shop openec about a month ago. "Having two locations will allo w us to serve even more customers from a widee area across upstateNew York," Jerian said. "Thix is a big step for H&V and we are lookinyg forward to this new chapter forour company." Jerian said he'a looking to open a third shop in the next year or so.
The company was started in the earlyu 1970sby Jerian's father as a two-man Today it employs 50 The expansion into Queensbury comes nearly two years afted H&V built a 6,000-square-foot additio n to its business at 7 Oakwood Ave. in bringing the total size to 11,000 square H&V is the only the auto express centeer for insurance in theAlbany area, Jeriabn said. A Geico claims adjuster is on site as well as a representativsfor . Geico customers have theirf claimsreviewed on-the-spot so repairs can beginb immediately. Enterprise provides a Customers get their car repaired in four daysor "It's basically one stop shopping," he said.
H&V also participatexs in programs with and insuranced companies to processclaims faster.
has expanded for the first time into anew market, investintg about $1.5 million to open another auto body shop in The location at 619 Quaker Road is the formed Top of the World Auto Body, an 8,000-square-foot buildinvg that sits on about 3.5 said H&V Vice President Vartan Jerian, Jr. The new shop openec about a month ago. "Having two locations will allo w us to serve even more customers from a widee area across upstateNew York," Jerian said. "Thix is a big step for H&V and we are lookinyg forward to this new chapter forour company." Jerian said he'a looking to open a third shop in the next year or so.
The company was started in the earlyu 1970sby Jerian's father as a two-man Today it employs 50 The expansion into Queensbury comes nearly two years afted H&V built a 6,000-square-foot additio n to its business at 7 Oakwood Ave. in bringing the total size to 11,000 square H&V is the only the auto express centeer for insurance in theAlbany area, Jeriabn said. A Geico claims adjuster is on site as well as a representativsfor . Geico customers have theirf claimsreviewed on-the-spot so repairs can beginb immediately. Enterprise provides a Customers get their car repaired in four daysor "It's basically one stop shopping," he said.
H&V also participatexs in programs with and insuranced companies to processclaims faster.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Survey: CEOs still foresee negative conditions - Boston Business Journal:
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“This quarter’s results reflect a continuing weak set ofeconomidc conditions,” said Ivan Seidenberg, chairman of Busines s Roundtable and chairman and CEO of “Conditions while still negative – appear to have begun to The D.C.-based association of CEOs representg a combined workforce of nearly 10 million employeesx and more than $5 trillionh in annual sales. When asked how they anticipatd their sales to fluctuate in the next six 34 percent said they will increase while 46 percent predicted a That is a sunnier forecast over the first quarteroutlook survey, when just 24 percenty predicted an increase in sales. In termsx of how their U.S.
capital spending will change over that 12 percent foresee itgoing up, while 51 perceny see it decreasing. Few (6 percent) expect theid U.S. employment to increase in the nextsix months, while 49 percentr anticipate their employee base to contracy in size. That shows an improvement from the first quartefroutlook survey, when 71 percent predicted a drop in In terms of the overall U.S. member CEOs estimate real GDP will dropby 2.1 percen t in 2009, down from the CEOs’ estimate of a 1.9 percengt decline in the first quarter of 2009. The outlookj index -- which combines member CEO projectionesfor sales, capital spending and employment in the six months ahead -- expanded to 18.
5 in the seconsd quarter, up from negative 5.0 in the firsyt quarter. An index reading of 50 or loweer is consistent with overall economic contractioh and a reading of 50 or higher is consistentwith
“This quarter’s results reflect a continuing weak set ofeconomidc conditions,” said Ivan Seidenberg, chairman of Busines s Roundtable and chairman and CEO of “Conditions while still negative – appear to have begun to The D.C.-based association of CEOs representg a combined workforce of nearly 10 million employeesx and more than $5 trillionh in annual sales. When asked how they anticipatd their sales to fluctuate in the next six 34 percent said they will increase while 46 percent predicted a That is a sunnier forecast over the first quarteroutlook survey, when just 24 percenty predicted an increase in sales. In termsx of how their U.S.
capital spending will change over that 12 percent foresee itgoing up, while 51 perceny see it decreasing. Few (6 percent) expect theid U.S. employment to increase in the nextsix months, while 49 percentr anticipate their employee base to contracy in size. That shows an improvement from the first quartefroutlook survey, when 71 percent predicted a drop in In terms of the overall U.S. member CEOs estimate real GDP will dropby 2.1 percen t in 2009, down from the CEOs’ estimate of a 1.9 percengt decline in the first quarter of 2009. The outlookj index -- which combines member CEO projectionesfor sales, capital spending and employment in the six months ahead -- expanded to 18.
5 in the seconsd quarter, up from negative 5.0 in the firsyt quarter. An index reading of 50 or loweer is consistent with overall economic contractioh and a reading of 50 or higher is consistentwith
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Ireland third-quarter GDP grows 0.5% - MarketWatch
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Ireland third-quarter GDP grows 0.5% MarketWatch LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The Irish economy grew 0.5% in the third quarter after contracting 1% in the previous three months, ... Ireland GDP improve in the third quarter |
Monday, December 13, 2010
Solar thermal plant slated for Santa Teresa - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
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The project also involves , a producer of modular, scalable solar thermal poweer plants. Concentrating solar power plants use mirroras to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto receiverxs that convert itto heat. The heat can then be used to produced steam to drive a turbinee andproduce electricity. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardsohn said the project will helpmake “Ne Mexico’s renewable energy potential a “With 300 days of sun every year, a highlgy skilled labor force and a friendly businessx environment, New Mexico is well positioned to lead the nation in solar energy production,” Richardson said. NRG Energy NRG) is a Princeton, N.J.
,-based company whosew power plants have a generating capacity of morethan 24,00 megawatts, enough to power more than 20 million homes. El Paso Electrid (NYSE:EE) provides power to 363,009 retail and wholesale customers ina 10,000-square-milse area in the Rio Grandew valley in West Texase and southern New Mexico.
The project also involves , a producer of modular, scalable solar thermal poweer plants. Concentrating solar power plants use mirroras to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto receiverxs that convert itto heat. The heat can then be used to produced steam to drive a turbinee andproduce electricity. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardsohn said the project will helpmake “Ne Mexico’s renewable energy potential a “With 300 days of sun every year, a highlgy skilled labor force and a friendly businessx environment, New Mexico is well positioned to lead the nation in solar energy production,” Richardson said. NRG Energy NRG) is a Princeton, N.J.
,-based company whosew power plants have a generating capacity of morethan 24,00 megawatts, enough to power more than 20 million homes. El Paso Electrid (NYSE:EE) provides power to 363,009 retail and wholesale customers ina 10,000-square-milse area in the Rio Grandew valley in West Texase and southern New Mexico.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
U-M Improves Preventive, Chronic Care, Saves Medicare More Than $15 Million - PR Newswire (press release)
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U-M Improves Preventive, Chronic Care, Saves Medicare More Than $15 Million PR Newswire (press release) ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Medicare patients with a host of physical problems are getting better care at the University of ... |
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Rendell proposes personal income tax hike - Business First of Louisville:
http://dehaafakkers.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1770&Itemid=35
The increase would bring the taxto 3.57 but state law would requiree it to return to 3.07 percent after three according to a release from the governor'd office. Rendell said the temporaryh increase would raiseapproximatelh $1.5 billion per year in new revenue. A temporarh tax has been implemented successfully to address a fiscao crisis in Pennsylvania on thresprior occasions, the governor's officwe said. Even with the , the state is more than $1 billiomn short of balancing its budget by the end of thegovernor said. Raising the income tax wouldd be preferable tothe alternatives, Rendelpl said. “The simple truth is we have no good he said.
“There are no shortcuts out of this nomagic bullets, no painles path out of this morass. We can do the easy thing for the momeny or the right thingfor Pennsylvania’s future. The faires plan is to spread the pain acrosdsthe board, and let our economic recoveryy begin.”
The increase would bring the taxto 3.57 but state law would requiree it to return to 3.07 percent after three according to a release from the governor'd office. Rendell said the temporaryh increase would raiseapproximatelh $1.5 billion per year in new revenue. A temporarh tax has been implemented successfully to address a fiscao crisis in Pennsylvania on thresprior occasions, the governor's officwe said. Even with the , the state is more than $1 billiomn short of balancing its budget by the end of thegovernor said. Raising the income tax wouldd be preferable tothe alternatives, Rendelpl said. “The simple truth is we have no good he said.
“There are no shortcuts out of this nomagic bullets, no painles path out of this morass. We can do the easy thing for the momeny or the right thingfor Pennsylvania’s future. The faires plan is to spread the pain acrosdsthe board, and let our economic recoveryy begin.”
Monday, December 6, 2010
'Left-Hook Lounge': Vivek Wallace's Mailbag feat. Pacquiao/Mosley, Riff ... - EastsideBoxing.com
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Friday, December 3, 2010
Education funding still falls short despite federal stimulus infusion - Birmingham Business Journal:
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That was the sentiment of an eight-member panel of education, training and governmenft experts gathered by the South Florida Busineses Journal to examine howthe $787 billion federal stimulus package is impactinv the region’s education and workforce training sectors. The panel marke d the third in theBusiness Journal’z ongoing stimulus series, aimed at tracking and analyzing the flow of moneyt from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into Southu Florida.
Florida’s Legislature was the only one nationally to requesf a federal waiver that allowed it to take money from education and replace it with stimuluzs dollars while other statez used stimulus dollars to augmentthe budget. The situation concerned paneliststate Sen. Eleanof Sobel. “We are not startinf at the starting line. The school district in Browardd County and those throughout the stats are starting behind thestarting line,” Sobel said. “They have had problemds for years and they areall scrambling.
” Veteran educator Robert a member of the Browardc County School Board, said, “Many of the largr urban districts in the natioh are afraid of one thing, which is basically a bait and switchh with those dollars.” What’s even more worrisome to some expertsx is that the stimulux money will eventually run out. “I’m really concerner about in three years; what’s going to happen?” said Vicente, president of ’s Nortgh Campus. “This is a Band-Aid.” He said the college’ws operating budget was cut $22 million whiles the stimulus money wasonly $13 Parks said Broward County’ss school system has cut $1.
4 billiojn from its construction budgeft in addition to furloughing 700 teachers and 51 “We’ve closed all of our schoop offices for the summer. We don’t have summedr school anymore,” Parks would have been looking at cutting its budgey byabout $30 million without $12 million in stimulu s funds, said Dorothy K. Russell, the university’sx associate VP for financial affairs andbudget director. The universithy cut 30 positionsand “had we not had the stimuluw dollars it could have been much more George Hanbury, executive VP and COO of , said the $1.
3 billiomn in stimulus funds given to the state relieved pressurwe on the Legislature to further reduce support for Florida Residenr Access Grants (FRAG), a key source of money for but he pointed out that the grants used to be $3,009 a year for students and are now $2,529. The amounrt is important to students, who find enrollmentg caps at state universities and turn to NSU and otherprivatr institutions. He also said that universities are working together to applyt for federalstimulus funding. NSU has a collaborative proposaol with and FAU fora $50 milliob research building with wet labs, business incubator spacew and offices for the U.S.
Geological Survey, whicg is helping oversee Everglades “We have shovel-ready projects we have submittesd to the Governor and in the next 60 days we coulfdput 1,000 people to work,” Hanbury said. The competitiomn for these typesof projects, though, is FAU is getting about $12 millio in direct infusion from the federall stimulus package, but the university also is seekinv money from the for labs and instruments, Russell said. April was the month to submit applications and the resultss are expectedby September. The strongest flow of so far, appears to be for programs that help the joblesds asthe state’s unemployment rate has hit 10.
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That was the sentiment of an eight-member panel of education, training and governmenft experts gathered by the South Florida Busineses Journal to examine howthe $787 billion federal stimulus package is impactinv the region’s education and workforce training sectors. The panel marke d the third in theBusiness Journal’z ongoing stimulus series, aimed at tracking and analyzing the flow of moneyt from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into Southu Florida.
Florida’s Legislature was the only one nationally to requesf a federal waiver that allowed it to take money from education and replace it with stimuluzs dollars while other statez used stimulus dollars to augmentthe budget. The situation concerned paneliststate Sen. Eleanof Sobel. “We are not startinf at the starting line. The school district in Browardd County and those throughout the stats are starting behind thestarting line,” Sobel said. “They have had problemds for years and they areall scrambling.
” Veteran educator Robert a member of the Browardc County School Board, said, “Many of the largr urban districts in the natioh are afraid of one thing, which is basically a bait and switchh with those dollars.” What’s even more worrisome to some expertsx is that the stimulux money will eventually run out. “I’m really concerner about in three years; what’s going to happen?” said Vicente, president of ’s Nortgh Campus. “This is a Band-Aid.” He said the college’ws operating budget was cut $22 million whiles the stimulus money wasonly $13 Parks said Broward County’ss school system has cut $1.
4 billiojn from its construction budgeft in addition to furloughing 700 teachers and 51 “We’ve closed all of our schoop offices for the summer. We don’t have summedr school anymore,” Parks would have been looking at cutting its budgey byabout $30 million without $12 million in stimulu s funds, said Dorothy K. Russell, the university’sx associate VP for financial affairs andbudget director. The universithy cut 30 positionsand “had we not had the stimuluw dollars it could have been much more George Hanbury, executive VP and COO of , said the $1.
3 billiomn in stimulus funds given to the state relieved pressurwe on the Legislature to further reduce support for Florida Residenr Access Grants (FRAG), a key source of money for but he pointed out that the grants used to be $3,009 a year for students and are now $2,529. The amounrt is important to students, who find enrollmentg caps at state universities and turn to NSU and otherprivatr institutions. He also said that universities are working together to applyt for federalstimulus funding. NSU has a collaborative proposaol with and FAU fora $50 milliob research building with wet labs, business incubator spacew and offices for the U.S.
Geological Survey, whicg is helping oversee Everglades “We have shovel-ready projects we have submittesd to the Governor and in the next 60 days we coulfdput 1,000 people to work,” Hanbury said. The competitiomn for these typesof projects, though, is FAU is getting about $12 millio in direct infusion from the federall stimulus package, but the university also is seekinv money from the for labs and instruments, Russell said. April was the month to submit applications and the resultss are expectedby September. The strongest flow of so far, appears to be for programs that help the joblesds asthe state’s unemployment rate has hit 10.
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
4 Things That Credit Cards Make Easier - San Francisco Chronicle
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4 Things That Credit Cards Make Easier San Francisco Chronicle Plastic: we love it and hate it. It sure is easy to whip out the trusted credit card and worry about how to pay for it later. The average American household ... |
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