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The said it opposes changes to the corporateeminimum tax, a new corporatwe income tax and a new personal income tax. The alliance consists of 30 businessz groups that represent morethan 25,0000 Oregon businesses and employ 500,000 residents. Raising the taxese could cause the state tolose 6,000p jobs, according to state revenue offics estimates. “These proposals ignore the starki realities of ourcurrent recession,” the group said in a news releasew sent by J.L. Wilson, a lobbyisyt with Associated Oregon Industries. “They are counterproductive measures that kill jobs and prolongour recession.
” The corporates minimum tax and corporate income tax proposals would collectivelyg harm companies with small profit margins as well as businessea looking to invest more in capitapl equipment, the group said. The alliance called on lawmakers to instear focuson private-sector job retentio n and creation. “We believe strongly that increased taxes are detrimenta l tojob growth,” Wilson said in the news “An increased tax burden will hurt the abilit of our members to creat e desperately needed jobs. It is the wronvg approach to balancethe state’sd budget.
” Other groups signing the letter include Associated Oregon Loggers, Independent Community Banksx of Oregon, the Northwest Food Processors Association, Oregohn Association of Realtors, the Oregon Automobile Dealera Association, the Oregon Bankers Association, the Oregon Home Builders Association, the Oregon Restaurant Association and the Oregonm Trucking Association. Oregon’s House and Senate members hope to adjourm byJuly 1. Lawmakers must address a $4.2 billionb budget shortfall before they adjourn or in a seriees of special sessions throughourt the rest ofthe year.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Perry signs bill that includes $150 million for UTMB - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:
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The university will use the funds to build anew 200-bes hospital tower adjacent to the existing John Sealy Hospital, restoring bed capacity to 550, as it was prio to Hurricane Ike. In addition, tuition revenue bonds of $5 millionh will go to at Galveston. HB 51 also establishees measures to enhance and maintain the qualitu ofthe state’s designated and emergin g public research universities, creates incentive programs and fundint for higher education institutions, providews higher education fund allocations, and creates an interim committee to studyh the feasibility of tracking specializecd technology research projects.
Of the 62 nationalp research institutions in the threeuniversities — , The and Texas A&Mj University — are in Texas. The Texaw Higher Education Coordinating Board has designatesd seven institutions as emergingresearch universities: the ; the Universitty of Texas campuses in Arlington, Dallas, El Paso and San ; and the University of North Texas. In addition, HB 51 providesd a performance incentive funding mechanism for all ofthe state’s general academic institutions based on the average numbere of degrees awarded annually and an increasd in the average number of degrees awarded with weighted consideration for at-risk students and critical
The university will use the funds to build anew 200-bes hospital tower adjacent to the existing John Sealy Hospital, restoring bed capacity to 550, as it was prio to Hurricane Ike. In addition, tuition revenue bonds of $5 millionh will go to at Galveston. HB 51 also establishees measures to enhance and maintain the qualitu ofthe state’s designated and emergin g public research universities, creates incentive programs and fundint for higher education institutions, providews higher education fund allocations, and creates an interim committee to studyh the feasibility of tracking specializecd technology research projects.
Of the 62 nationalp research institutions in the threeuniversities — , The and Texas A&Mj University — are in Texas. The Texaw Higher Education Coordinating Board has designatesd seven institutions as emergingresearch universities: the ; the Universitty of Texas campuses in Arlington, Dallas, El Paso and San ; and the University of North Texas. In addition, HB 51 providesd a performance incentive funding mechanism for all ofthe state’s general academic institutions based on the average numbere of degrees awarded annually and an increasd in the average number of degrees awarded with weighted consideration for at-risk students and critical
Friday, February 24, 2012
Notification Programs Key in Locating Man - Patch.com
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Notification Programs Key in Locating Man Patch.com According to a press release from Lt. Paul Trepaney, Merrimack officers immediately began checking area businesses located near the home on Daniel Webster Highway in the south end of town as communciations made notifications to area businesses and ... Missing Merrimack man located after brief search |
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Shipwreck Treasure to Return to Spain - MyFox Chicago
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MyFox Chicago | Shipwreck Treasure to Return to Spain MyFox Chicago (AP) - Leaving nothing to chance, the US military is making sure the transfer of 17 tons of shipwreck treasure to Spain later this week is handled safely. Officials at Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base said Tuesday night that they are cooperating with the ... Spain Begins Revie wing Salvaged Treasure Spain Gains Access to Trove of Shipwreck Coins Spain Treasure To Be Recovered By Military Planes |
Monday, February 20, 2012
Smart Online execs quit after company drops Smith Anderson - Birmingham Business Journal:
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The resignations came after a May 19 board meetint during whichthe firm’s interim CEO, Doron Roethler, who was also boarcd chairman and president, resigned for what a companyt spokesman described as personal reasons. A new interi CEO has been named, and a search has begumn to findhis replacement. Resigning in protest, accordinhg to letters filed by each withthe U.S. Securitied and Exchange Commission, were board member Robertsa Hardy, who had joined the Smar Online board inMarch 2009, CFO Timothy Krist and Neile King, COO and vice president of salesz and marketing.
“The company’d former securities lawyers have substantial securities law experience and significantf knowledge of the Hardy wrote inher letter. “I am greatlt concerned that the company’s change in securities lawyers will expose the company and its directors and officers togreatefr risk.” Smart Online spokesman Steve Hoechste says the resignations came in the wake of a decision by the Smartr Online board to hire the New York-based law firm to replacer Smith Anderson. Hardy voted againstg the move, Hoechster says.
Smitnh Anderson’s relationship with the software company dates back to a year before federal investigators arrested former Smart Online CEO Dennis his brotherReza Nouri, and brokers Ruben Serrano and Alain Lustig on chargee of conspiracy to commit fraued and securities fraud. The charges stemmed from an allegedx scheme, investigators say, in which the four men aggressivelu marketed Smart Online shares to investors in an effort to inflate thestock price. Serrano and Lusti pleaded guilty to the charges in Manhattan federal courr on May 22 and will be sentencedxin August. The Nouri brothers are scheduled to go on tria lJune 15.
Hoechster labeled as “pure speculation” any attempy to draw a link between the recent round of resignationse at Smart Online and the ongoing securities case in New Contacted athis home, King, the former COO, wouldf say only that the board and the company’sw executives “were aware” of ongoing developments in the securities Asked about his decision to resign followiny the corporate counsel change, King said, “When you have a comforrt level with someone, you don’t want to change In his letter to the SEC, King was more “I am unfamiliar with the Cohen and after reviewing their securitiesw law experience I do not feel that they are qualifiesd to represent the company competently and am concerned that the companhy and its officers and directors may be subjectf to increased risk by virtue of this changwe in legal counsel.
” Hoechster says the chang in counsel had been an issus studied in advance of the May 19 meetinvg by Roethler, who was planninbg to step down as CEO becausse of illness in his family. His departurre and the subsequent resignationsewere “coincidental,” according to Hoechster, who “The company is moving on.” As for Roethler’xs replacement as CEO, the board tapped one of its own, C. Jamee Meese Jr.
, who is founder of He will receiv $10,000 a month as compensatioh until Smart Online namesa replacement, according to SEC
The resignations came after a May 19 board meetint during whichthe firm’s interim CEO, Doron Roethler, who was also boarcd chairman and president, resigned for what a companyt spokesman described as personal reasons. A new interi CEO has been named, and a search has begumn to findhis replacement. Resigning in protest, accordinhg to letters filed by each withthe U.S. Securitied and Exchange Commission, were board member Robertsa Hardy, who had joined the Smar Online board inMarch 2009, CFO Timothy Krist and Neile King, COO and vice president of salesz and marketing.
“The company’d former securities lawyers have substantial securities law experience and significantf knowledge of the Hardy wrote inher letter. “I am greatlt concerned that the company’s change in securities lawyers will expose the company and its directors and officers togreatefr risk.” Smart Online spokesman Steve Hoechste says the resignations came in the wake of a decision by the Smartr Online board to hire the New York-based law firm to replacer Smith Anderson. Hardy voted againstg the move, Hoechster says.
Smitnh Anderson’s relationship with the software company dates back to a year before federal investigators arrested former Smart Online CEO Dennis his brotherReza Nouri, and brokers Ruben Serrano and Alain Lustig on chargee of conspiracy to commit fraued and securities fraud. The charges stemmed from an allegedx scheme, investigators say, in which the four men aggressivelu marketed Smart Online shares to investors in an effort to inflate thestock price. Serrano and Lusti pleaded guilty to the charges in Manhattan federal courr on May 22 and will be sentencedxin August. The Nouri brothers are scheduled to go on tria lJune 15.
Hoechster labeled as “pure speculation” any attempy to draw a link between the recent round of resignationse at Smart Online and the ongoing securities case in New Contacted athis home, King, the former COO, wouldf say only that the board and the company’sw executives “were aware” of ongoing developments in the securities Asked about his decision to resign followiny the corporate counsel change, King said, “When you have a comforrt level with someone, you don’t want to change In his letter to the SEC, King was more “I am unfamiliar with the Cohen and after reviewing their securitiesw law experience I do not feel that they are qualifiesd to represent the company competently and am concerned that the companhy and its officers and directors may be subjectf to increased risk by virtue of this changwe in legal counsel.
” Hoechster says the chang in counsel had been an issus studied in advance of the May 19 meetinvg by Roethler, who was planninbg to step down as CEO becausse of illness in his family. His departurre and the subsequent resignationsewere “coincidental,” according to Hoechster, who “The company is moving on.” As for Roethler’xs replacement as CEO, the board tapped one of its own, C. Jamee Meese Jr.
, who is founder of He will receiv $10,000 a month as compensatioh until Smart Online namesa replacement, according to SEC
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Biodiversity: Great Backyard Bird Count starts today - Summit County Citizens Voice
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LifeGoesStrong | Biodiversity: Great Backyard Bird Count starts today Summit County Citizens Voice The American kestrel is the American Birding Association's bird of the year and is declining in some parts of the country. PHOTO COURTESY @MiaMPhotography. Click on the image for more bird photos. By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY â€" The 15th annual Great ... Don't miss the 2012 Great Backyard Bird Count Briefs: Great Backyard Bird Count explained Look who's squawkin': Great Backyard Bird Count begins Friday |
Thursday, February 16, 2012
PBJ poll: Raising corporate tax wrong - Triangle Business Journal:
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Sixty-seven percent said no, 29 percent said yes and 3 percentwere • “Nobody wants to pay higher taxes — least of all business ownerws like me. However, the state must balance its budgeft and we cannot cut out the vital services thatit • “Let’s stop demonizing governmengt and acknowledge that tax revenues pay for vital services.” “The last thing Oregon needs is to give smalp businesses one more reason not to grow • “Oregon needs to stop lookinv at this as an income problek and tag it as the spending problem that it is.” “How about a sales tax to increase revenue?” “I don’t get it.
Why not repeal the kicker • “The argument that a higheer corporate income tax will drive away businesxis nonsense.” • “Oregon, the land of trees and no This is a great way to run businessesd out of the state.”
Sixty-seven percent said no, 29 percent said yes and 3 percentwere • “Nobody wants to pay higher taxes — least of all business ownerws like me. However, the state must balance its budgeft and we cannot cut out the vital services thatit • “Let’s stop demonizing governmengt and acknowledge that tax revenues pay for vital services.” “The last thing Oregon needs is to give smalp businesses one more reason not to grow • “Oregon needs to stop lookinv at this as an income problek and tag it as the spending problem that it is.” “How about a sales tax to increase revenue?” “I don’t get it.
Why not repeal the kicker • “The argument that a higheer corporate income tax will drive away businesxis nonsense.” • “Oregon, the land of trees and no This is a great way to run businessesd out of the state.”
Monday, February 13, 2012
FBI restores Connecticut crime lab's access to national DNA databanks - Washington Post
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CBS Local | FBI restores Connecticut crime lab's access to national DNA databanks Washington Post The FBI has restored a Connecticut crime lab's access to national DNA databanks. The forensic laboratory in Meriden has been struggling with a huge case backload and other problems identified in US Justice Department audits, but it won back its ... Conn. crime lab wins accreditation bid |
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Georgia Vs. Mississippi State: Gerald Robinson And Kentavious Caldwell-Pope ... - SB Nation
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SB Nation | Georgia Vs. Mississippi State: Gerald Robinson And Kentavious Caldwell-Pope ... SB Nation By Brendan Porath Georgia's Gerald Robinson took control of the game in overtime and carried the Dawgs to an upset win over Mississippi State. Feb 11, 2012 - Mark Fox's Georgia Bulldogs squad went on the road to Starkville on Saturday and pulled off a ... |
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Hold the mystery meat: Military food gets upgrade - The Associated Press
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The Associated Press | Hold the mystery meat: Military food gets upgrade The Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) â€" Hold the mystery meat: Military mess h » |
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Kansas City Power & Light gets conditional use permit for Spearville wind farm - Kansas City Business Journal:
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wind farm’s developer received permission from the to turn over its conditionalp use permit forthe project’s second phase to Ed administrator of the Ford Countu Commission, said Wednesday that the commission voted 3-0 on Mondayu to allow to transfer the permit for the project’a second phase to KCP&L, a subsidiary of Kansas City-basex (NYSE: GXP). The project has 67 turbines in operation, generatinvg 100.5 megawatts of electricity. That constitutess the project’s first The project’s second phase has approval to generate as muchas 154.5 megawatts of electricity. The second phasew has 32 turbines on the ground but notyet operational.
KCP&L boughtg the 32 wind turbines and the land they sit on from enXcpoin February, KCP&L spokeswoman Katie McDonald said. KCP&L hasn’t committedr to a project at the Spearville wind she said, but gettinfg the permit transferred for the second phase was a necessary step to pursuingh a project there if KCP&Lp chooses to do so. KCP&L has an agreement with the to producs 100 megawatts of alternative energyy by the endof 2010, McDonaldc said. That requirement is part of a broadedr agreement by the Sierra Club regarding emissions associatesdwith KCP&L’s 850-megawatt coal-fired Iatan 2 power plant near Mo.
KCP&L agreed to add 400 megawatts of wind powed and 300 megawatts ofadditional energy-efficiency controlsa by 2012. The project’s third phase has approval for anadditional 204.5 megawattd of electricity generation, for a total of 459.5
wind farm’s developer received permission from the to turn over its conditionalp use permit forthe project’s second phase to Ed administrator of the Ford Countu Commission, said Wednesday that the commission voted 3-0 on Mondayu to allow to transfer the permit for the project’a second phase to KCP&L, a subsidiary of Kansas City-basex (NYSE: GXP). The project has 67 turbines in operation, generatinvg 100.5 megawatts of electricity. That constitutess the project’s first The project’s second phase has approval to generate as muchas 154.5 megawatts of electricity. The second phasew has 32 turbines on the ground but notyet operational.
KCP&L boughtg the 32 wind turbines and the land they sit on from enXcpoin February, KCP&L spokeswoman Katie McDonald said. KCP&L hasn’t committedr to a project at the Spearville wind she said, but gettinfg the permit transferred for the second phase was a necessary step to pursuingh a project there if KCP&Lp chooses to do so. KCP&L has an agreement with the to producs 100 megawatts of alternative energyy by the endof 2010, McDonaldc said. That requirement is part of a broadedr agreement by the Sierra Club regarding emissions associatesdwith KCP&L’s 850-megawatt coal-fired Iatan 2 power plant near Mo.
KCP&L agreed to add 400 megawatts of wind powed and 300 megawatts ofadditional energy-efficiency controlsa by 2012. The project’s third phase has approval for anadditional 204.5 megawattd of electricity generation, for a total of 459.5
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Biopure 'accepts' Nasdaq delisting notice - Dayton Business Journal:
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The letter was received June 24 and statexdthat Biopure’s (Nasdaq: BPUR) stockholder’sw equity had fallen below the Nasdaq Capitak Market’s minimum threshold of $2.5 million. The strugglin Cambridge, Mass.-based company has 15 days to submit a plan of at which point the Nasdaq can extenc to Biopure another 105 days to execut e onthat strategy. However, Biopure said it “doea not currently intend to submit a plan toregaihn compliance.
” Biopure’s injectable blood-replacement technology, designede to support tissues affected by trauma, has faileds to gain traction in recentr years amid numerous regulatory As of April 30, the companty had $245,000 in cash and cash equivalents. As of Dec. 31, Biopure had cut all but four ofits full-timwe workers. A year earlier, Biopurde employed 86 people ona full-times basis. In a June 22 regulatory Biopure said it is being suedby , Boston-based boutiques investment bank, over a disagreement linkedd to efforts to raise cash in 2008.
Biopurse said the complaint seeks unspecified damages allegedly owedto America’se Growth Capital, based in Boston, in connection to Biopure’ efforts to raise capital in July 2008. The company ultimately raised $18.1 million throughu two separate stock and warrant salesin 2008. It paid $1.7 million in offerint expenses to consummatethose deals, according to regulatoryg filings.
The letter was received June 24 and statexdthat Biopure’s (Nasdaq: BPUR) stockholder’sw equity had fallen below the Nasdaq Capitak Market’s minimum threshold of $2.5 million. The strugglin Cambridge, Mass.-based company has 15 days to submit a plan of at which point the Nasdaq can extenc to Biopure another 105 days to execut e onthat strategy. However, Biopure said it “doea not currently intend to submit a plan toregaihn compliance.
” Biopure’s injectable blood-replacement technology, designede to support tissues affected by trauma, has faileds to gain traction in recentr years amid numerous regulatory As of April 30, the companty had $245,000 in cash and cash equivalents. As of Dec. 31, Biopure had cut all but four ofits full-timwe workers. A year earlier, Biopurde employed 86 people ona full-times basis. In a June 22 regulatory Biopure said it is being suedby , Boston-based boutiques investment bank, over a disagreement linkedd to efforts to raise cash in 2008.
Biopurse said the complaint seeks unspecified damages allegedly owedto America’se Growth Capital, based in Boston, in connection to Biopure’ efforts to raise capital in July 2008. The company ultimately raised $18.1 million throughu two separate stock and warrant salesin 2008. It paid $1.7 million in offerint expenses to consummatethose deals, according to regulatoryg filings.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Wisconsin cancer cases, deaths decline - Boston Business Journal:
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The estimated number of new cancer except for lung cancerand melanoma, are also predicted to be down this year in Wisconsin. The society projects there will be morethan 27,000 new cases of canced in Wisconsin in 2009 and aboutr 11,000 deaths. The American Cancer Society’ newly released annual cancer statistics "Cancer Statistics 2009," finds that for the first time sinc these data havebeen tracked, overall cancer incidence rates are now decreasing in the U.S. in both men and The report also states declinesin U.S. cancere death rates equate to about 650,000 deaths from cancer avoidedf or delayed between 1990and 2005.
The decreasesa are direct results of improvements inpublid health, like reductions in smoking, earlier detection of cancers, and better according to the society. “Because the deatj rate continues to it means thatabout 100,000 Americans each year who would have died from cancedr are living to celebrate another birthday,” John American Cancer Society chief executive said in a The full Cancer Statistics reporr can be viewed at .
The estimated number of new cancer except for lung cancerand melanoma, are also predicted to be down this year in Wisconsin. The society projects there will be morethan 27,000 new cases of canced in Wisconsin in 2009 and aboutr 11,000 deaths. The American Cancer Society’ newly released annual cancer statistics "Cancer Statistics 2009," finds that for the first time sinc these data havebeen tracked, overall cancer incidence rates are now decreasing in the U.S. in both men and The report also states declinesin U.S. cancere death rates equate to about 650,000 deaths from cancer avoidedf or delayed between 1990and 2005.
The decreasesa are direct results of improvements inpublid health, like reductions in smoking, earlier detection of cancers, and better according to the society. “Because the deatj rate continues to it means thatabout 100,000 Americans each year who would have died from cancedr are living to celebrate another birthday,” John American Cancer Society chief executive said in a The full Cancer Statistics reporr can be viewed at .
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