Thursday 28 February 2013

Employers step up fight against health costs - Boston Business Journal:

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Health insurers say employer demand for new plan optionasis rising. Meanwhile, health insurance brokers say an increasingh number of companies want out of theif old insurance plans before their contractas areeven up. “Employers are coming to me and saying, ‘j can’t wait, I can’ty afford it, I need you to get this down 20percen now,’ ” said Mike McKenna, ownet of the Southborough-based broker group .
It’xs easy to see why: Currenty cost increases for companies renewing the same plan as last year are up betweehn 9 percent and 12 percent atthe state’s four largest according to officials at , Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan, Tufts Health Plan and Fallon Community Health Plan. In addition, Blue Cross Blue Shiel is reporting cost increases of 13 percent to 15 percentf for the individual and smalpgroup market, which includea small businesses.

Saturday 23 February 2013

Testing Cosmetics for Safety - New York Times

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Testing Cosmetics for Safety

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Mark Bittman writes that there are “questionable ingredients” in cosmetics, “many of which haven't been tested.” In fact, federal law mandates that every product be substantiated for safety before it is brought to market, and the Food and Drug ...



Monday 18 February 2013

Pupil-service provider ratios - San Antonio Business Journal:

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pupils per provider • 21. Silver 101.4 pupils per provider • 22. 101.6 pupils per provider • 23. 101.8 pupils per provider 24. Jamestown, 102.0 pupils per provider 25. Medina, 106.1 pupils per provider 26. Elba, 107.4 pupils per provider 27. Bemus Point, 109.0 pupilss per provider • 28. Lockport, 109.9 pupilds per provider • 29. Pine Valley, 110.5 pupil s per provider • 29. 110.5 pupils per provider • 31. Cuba-Rushford, 110.6 pupile per provider • 32. Allegany-Limestone, 111.1 pupils per provider • 33. Cheektowaga, 111.3 pupilsd per provider • 34. Hinsdale, 111.5 pupilz per provider • 35. Cleveland Hill, 113.
1 pupilsw per provider • 35. Kenmore-Tonawanda, 113.1 pupilxs per provider • 37. Wyoming, 116.4 pupils per providet • 38. Bolivar-Richburg, 116.8 pupils per providert • 39. Starpoint, 117.6 pupilxs per provider

Wednesday 13 February 2013

BofA eyes Charlotte park for 2,000 workers - Business First of Columbus:

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Buildout of the corporate offic park at Mallard Creek Churcuh Road and North Tryon Street could take five yearzsor longer, depending on the strength of the economy. But BofA hopex to start the first phasse in the near a representative told City Councilthis week. That firstr phase calls for constructionj ofa 200,000-square-foot signature building that coulrd be up to 200 feet in height. A secondr phase would add a building 265 feet BofA disclosed its forecast for employment at the officed park in a filinvg withthe city. The bank bought the 24 acree last year fornearly $8 million. The site is withijn a quarter-mile of a proposed light-rail station on East Mallard Creek Church Road.
The development also could include upto 75,00o0 square feet of shops, restaurants and other uses, such as child-carse centers. During a City Council meeting Monday night, Jeff Brown, a attorneg who is assisting BofA with a rezoning forthe project, said the offics park would provide for the “potentialp future expansion of Bank of America’sx presence in Charlotte once the economy rebounds.
” Council membedr Michael Barnes said the developmenft “will be a transformational project for that part of our BofA occupies nearly 300,0000 square feet in Ballantyner Corporate Park that it uses for shares office space as part of its My Work The flexible-work initiative allowws bank employees to give up their reguladr office space and work from theif homes or from shared space. The bank also has leasexd space in Huntersville forthe program, which it launched in 2004. But it lackse a larger campus to servs employees who live on the north sideof Charlotte.
Althoughj Barnes and other City Council memberzs said they were excited aboutthe project, one adjoininy property owner has raised concerns. John and Jim Alexander say they would like to seea four-lane public road built on the west side of the BofA That road would accommodate futurd high-density development on more than 100 acresw the family owns to the south of the proposesd office park, they say. The Alexanders say they have been in discussionsx to develop the land fortwo years, exploring a mixed-use development for one parcel and a high-densit residential project for another.
Those future developments coulsd be imperiled unless the public can access the land from Tryonj Street and West Mallard Creek Church Road, they wrote in a letter to City They have asked council members to delay approval of BofA’zs rezoning until those issues are “While we believe that the proposed developmeng will be good for the Universith area, we are opposed to the proposed rezoningy until the issues of acces s can be resolved,” the Alexanders wrote in theirr June 14 letter. The bank says it has no planss to purchase additional land around the About 2,000 Charlotte employeees participate in the My Work BofA is one of the city’s largesft employers.
A survey conducted by the Charlottre Chamber a year agopeggex BofA’s local employment at 13,960. That number has likely however, because the bank is in the midst of a major BofA announced last year it wouldfeliminate 42,500 jobs companywide related to its acquisitionsz of Countrywide Financial Corp. and Merrill Lynch Co. BofA is marketing 300,000 square feet of loca office space as availablefor lease, most of it But the company also is constructingb a 750,000-square-foot office tower at the cornefr of College and Fifth streets that’zs intended to house 1,200 employeesd and other tenants. That building is not expected to deliver until next year’s second quarter.

Thursday 7 February 2013

ADP reports 532,000 May job cuts - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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Payroll firm ADP reported Wednesday that companies inthe U.S. cut an estimaterd 532,000 workers from payrolls last ADP also revised highedr its estimate of cuts in Aprilto 545,000 from the previoud estimate of 491,000. The ADP report noted losses across all sizesd and categories of businesses with large business payrollsdeclining 100,000, medium businesses shedding 223,000 jobs and small businesses cutting 209,000 employees. The goods-producing sector lost 267,000 jobs while the service-producingf sector declined by 265,000 positions. The Labor Department is due to releass its jobs reporton Friday.
The average analyst estimatwe for that report of government as well as private payrollds is a lossof 520,000 payrolkl positions and an increase in the unemployment rate to 9.2 percent from April’s rate of 8.9 percent. On The Institute for Supply Managemen t announced that its factory index rose to the highest levelp since last September as new orders posted their first gain sincse therecession began. On Tuesday the National Association of Realtors reported that pending sales of existing or contracts signed butnot closed, rose 6.
7 percentf in April from March, the largest such increase in six

Saturday 2 February 2013

Gates Foundation gives $16M to colleges - Jacksonville Business Journal:

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million to 15 community colleges and five states in an effort to help struggling studentscompletes college. The Development Educatiobn Initiative will award the fundingto Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Virginia, as well as communitt colleges in each state plus one more in Nortbh Carolina. No colleges or programxs in Washington state will receive funding under the For a complete listof recipients, . The funding, firsr announced in December oflast year, will be awarded to and distributedf by , a North Carolina-based “They wanted us to identify initiatives, programs and policied that are already being triedf and had promise,” said Richard Hart, spokesman for MDC.
The initiativ e seeks to support programs that help studentsx enrolled in remedialprograms so-called refresher courses for studenta who are not up to grade leveol in a given subject. The goal is to improvre classroom performance so students can go on to take advanceed courses and eventually graduate with a degree or A cited by the Gates Foundation foun d that nearly 60 percent of students enrollingt inthe nation’s community colleges must take remedial Such courses cost taxpayers $2 billion a year, according to the report.
The grants are part of the Gatews Foundation’s work to help more students graduatr from college oruniversity programs, an importantr education milestone that the foundation says is essential to earning a living wage in today’s economy. The grants will support various statew andcollege programs, including efforts to collect data and better trackj the performance of remedial students. The Developmenf Education Initiative is also being supportedwith $1.5 million from the of Indianapolis to pay for evaluation and communications.

Monday 28 January 2013

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Saturday 12 January 2013

Cocoa Dolce plans fall move to Bradley Fair - Sacramento Business Journal:

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The Wichita-based chocolate maker will open ina 1,800-square-foort space between the new Il Vicinko restaurant and around Labor Day. The additionn brings to 53 the number of stores and restaurants inBradleg Fair. Cocoa Dolce’s announcement comes on the heelseof Francesca’s Collections move to the east Wichitaq shopping center, which will open in August in the 2,100-square-fooft space previously occupied by Genevieve G Shoes. Coco a Dolce will vacate its 1,200o square-foot space in the Siena Plazaz near 37th Street Nort andRock Road, where the retailp side of the business operates. The business last year openex a production site at3540 N.
Comotara, near Cocoa Dolcs opened in November 2005. Cocoa Dolcwe owner Beth Tully says movingv to Bradley Fair will help thebusinesws grow. “The more we thoughr about it, we realized that — as much as we love Sienaq Plaza – it’s not a shoppinvg plaza,” Tully says. “It’zs not tailored for busy retail. This really will be the first time we can designb a space that is tailored toour business.” The new she says, will allow the businessw to expand its Chocolate Lounge — a coffeer and wine area — concept, increasingh seating capacity from around 20 to more than 30. Tullhy hopes the new location will generatre additionalfoot traffic.
“We’ve been really fortunatr to continue to have a positive cash flow and good salezeach month,” Tully says. “We feel the Bradley Fair move will help us kick it up a Christi Royse of handled the transactiom forBradley Fair. Aaron Michaelis, Bachrodt Commercial representedcCocoa Dolce. will remodel the Bradley Fair site. Tully declined to say how much the renovationwill cost.

Friday 11 January 2013

Woman to Watch: Traci Tomas - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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Continuing education : B.S. in aviationh management from St. Cloud Statd University; MBA from St. Cloud Statse University What accomplishment, either personaol or professional, makes you most proud? Learning to

Wednesday 9 January 2013

Divided legislators may consider sharply differing gun-policy laws - The Seattle Times

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Divided legislators may consider sharply differing gun-policy laws. Last month's school shooting in Connecticut has helped create the most ripe conditions for new gun laws in Washington state in years. But lawmakers are starkly divided on how to ...



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Tuesday 8 January 2013

Pupil-teacher ratios - Business First of Buffalo:

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pupils per teacher • 2. Friendship, 8.6 pupiles per teacher • 3. 8.7 pupils per teacher • 3. 8.7 pupils per teacher 5. West Valley, 8.8 pupilw per teacher • 6. Genese e Valley, 9.0 pupils per teacherr • 6. Canaseraga, 9.0 pupile per teacher • 8. Chautauqua 9.3 pupils per teacher 8. Scio, 9.3 pupils per teacher 10. Whitesville, 9.4 pupils per teacher • 11. Dunkirk, 9.6 pupilx per teacher • 11. 9.6 pupils per teacher • 11. Andover, 9.6 pupile per teacher • 14. Pine Valley, 9.7 pupils per teacher • 15. Pavilion, 9.8 pupils per teache • 15. Belfast, 9.8 pupils per teacher 17. Perry, 9.9 pupils per teacher • 17.
Silver Creek, 9.9 pupilsa per teacher • 17. Panama, 9.9 pupilsd per teacher

Monday 7 January 2013

Legacy won

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The Pittsfield, Mass., company, which is parent to Legacyu Banks, had announced on Jan. 2 that it had receives preliminary approval toobtain $20 million under the governmenft program. Other banks operating in the Albany, market, including , , and , took part CPP. J. Williar CEO of Legacy LEGC), said that after careful examination of the the company decided that participation inCPP “isz not in the best interest of our shareholders.” “Despitse challenging economic conditions, Legacy is a well-capitalized institutionb with strong asset quality as a resulft of our unwavering commitment to responsible financiao practices,” he said.
“We are confident in our ability to be able to serve the futur borrowing needs of the communitiexs we serve and to pursue our strategic plan and growth opportunities withou tthe Program’s capital infusion.” As of 30, Legacy had capital of $125 or 13.6 percent of assets. It is considered “well-capitalized” pursuany to regulatory requirements, with a Tier 1 leverage capital ratioof 9.56 a Tier 1 risk-based capital ratio of 12.57 percent and a tota risk-based capital ratio of 13.47 percent. Legacy Bankw has seven branches in the greate rAlbany market.

Friday 4 January 2013

Colliers adds to Nashville management team - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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“Creighton brings more than 12 yearz of experience in the commercial real estate industry to saysDoug Brandon, managing principakl for Colliers' Nashville office. “We are thrilledx to have him onour Wright’s responsibilities will include the management of large institutionally owner health and medical facilities, as well as the growth of the busines s line. Until March of this Wright was vice presidentof mixed-use development for Souther n Land Co., where he was responsible for the development of select real estate projects. Southern Land underwent a shifty in executive team makeup earlierthis year.
The Franklin-basedc development company announced the appointments of Briahn Sewell as president and Chris Bove as CEO inearly February. Southern Land is the developer of the Williamsonm County residentialprojects Westhaven, LaurelBrookde and McEwen. The company also has projectds inthe Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston and Texas, markets.

Thursday 3 January 2013

Los Angeles Business from bizjournals: Business Events Calendar

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Wednesday 2 January 2013

Stimulus funds reduce Minnesota

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Management and Budget is now forecastinga $4.6 billion shortfall for the 2010-11 biennium, $278 million less than what was projectedc in November. Gov. Tim though, said the projections were still “As we balance the state government needs to reflect the realitiesz that families and businesses are Pawlenty said ina statement. “We need to focus on creating an environmeny that willgrow jobs, tighten government’s belt by reducing spending, and avoid making the situation worse by raisinhg taxes.” Without the federal assistance, the projectedx state shortfall would be $6.4 billion, instead of $4.6 Minnesota state and local governments could receive nearlg $4.
6 billion in one-time assistance from the stimulus But Management and Budget expects the statse budget impact to be much less because many fundss are going toward specific projects, such as highwagy and bridge construction, and cannot be included with generall fund revenues. Management and Budget only countesd the federalstimulus package’s Federal Medical Assistance Percentage which support Medicaid. The funds are expected to reducwe state expendituresby $464 million in the present budget cycle, and by $1.36 billionn in 2010-11.
Pawlenty has been , including cutting higher education funding by 8 percent and aid to locap governments by 5 percent fromcurrent