Monday, February 28, 2011

Realtors to launch foreclosure courses - San Francisco Business Times:

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The group gave the $3,200 to host a foreclosurs and shortsales course. And the was given $8,05 0 to develop a course and DVD for consumers and agents on the legapl risks associated with foreclosures and short also wasawarded $6,000 to host a Realtorr training course on helping consumersd who are behind on their mortgages. The nationap association gave out morethan $3 million to differentg city associations to help resolve the growing foreclosurs problem.
“Realtors build communities, and as the leadingy advocate for homeownership andhousing issues, we believe that any familyu that loses its home to foreclosur is one family too many,” NAR President Charlee McMillan, a broker with in Dallas-Fort “Foreclosures affect each community differently, whicj is why NAR is providing the Foreclosure Preventionb and Response grants directly to local and state Realtort associations so that they can develop unique, coordinated actiomn plans to prevent foreclosuresa and minimize their adverswe effects on the community.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Business Alliance joins corporate tax fray - Houston Business Journal:

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The proposal, put forward by House and Senatde Democrats, would boost the state’s corporatse minimum tax from thecurrent $10 level to between for companies earning less than and $100,000 for companies earning more than $250 million. “Thwe $10 Oregon corporate minimum tax has become a source of publi scrutinyand controversy,” wrotre Steve Holwerda, the group's chair, in a news “We agree that the minimujm tax should be adjusted, but believe the changees must be modest and reasonable as the minimumj taxes all (C-corporations) whether they are profitable or Holwerda, chief operating officer of Portland’s Ferguson Wellman Capital Management, added that the proposalo “would be a major disincentivr to operating a business in Oregon and is particularlty harmful to businesses that are already losing money.
” Holwerda sent a lettee to the group's members a day aftef Democrats have revised a May proposalp that would have charged a minimum betweej $250 and $60,000. The group also calleed for the state to use rainhday funds, reserve funds and stimulus money to help solve Oregon’s $4.2 billion shortfall. The groul further expressed concernabout “what appears to be an sentiment” in Salem. “For our state to be healthy, all sectorsw need to be successful and we need to join togethedr to make that Holwerda said.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Analyst urges selloff of NY Times debt - South Florida Business Journal:

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GimmeCredit analyst David Novosel also saidthe company’se postponed deadline for bids on the may reflect “a paucity of interest in the newspaper.” The New York Timews Co. (NYSE: NYT) extended the deadline for bid submissions untilo laterthis month. Novoselo said if the New York Times Co.’a decline in operating earnings isnot stemmed, leverage could push even higher next year. In the near he said the publisher has ample liquidity tohandlre $45 million in notes that mature in And there’s no debt cominb due in 2010. However, the company still has abouy $1.1 billion of total debt comin due inlater years, including $250 million in notes maturing in March 2015.
Yieldds on that issue have soared toabout 12.5 percent, and the debt tradeds for 70.10 cents on the dollar, accordingv to Bloomberg data. In the newspaper company has an under-funded pension obligation of atleast $300 and could be much higher, the analyst said. “Declininvg revenue and margins, weak cash and escalating leverage lead us to a sell recommendatioh on the 2015 issue at a price of Novosel wrote in aresearch

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Crate & Barrel

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Crate & Barrel, based in Northbrook, Ill., confirmed May 27 that Atlantaw is one of the metroareas it’s scoutingv for potential locations for CB2. Firs t launched in Chicago, the CB2 concepyt features contemporary furnishings at lowerprice points. The which includes sofas, hand-woven rugs, convertible beds and a broade r selection of eclectic home is focused more on the youngefr generation of American consumers that rent apartments and smallkurban lofts. Besides privately owned Crate & Barrel has rolledc out CB2 in New Yorkand California, including a new storr in Los Angeles that opened in April.
Another CB2 is slatefd to openin Miami’s South Beach lated this year, a Crate Barrel spokeswoman said. In all, Cratwe & Barrel has launched just six CB2 stores. In recenf years, CB2 officials have been focusing on new locations inSoutherh California. The company tendsz to locate in areaswith high-profile regional shopping lifestyle centers and freestanding sites. CB2 officiale have been looking in densely populatefd areas with an average household income in exceswof $50,000. Its prototype store is about 12,000 squarr feet.
While Crate & Barrel wouls not confirm what partsz ofAtlanta it’s been considering, sources familiard with the search say it’s focuseds on Midtown and West Midtown, wherer new residential and retailo redevelopment projects are still unde r way. In Midtown, Daniel Corp. and are developing 12th & Midtown, a $2 billion mixed-use projecyt built on a site that several years ago was little more than an Atlantz nightclub and a couple of parking Daniel and Selig Enterprises have made a presentation to officials from CB2 inrecenty months, according to sources familiar with the The projects will eventually featurr more than 3 million squars feet of residential and commercial space.
CB2 would be the firstr national retailer to locate on theMidtownn Mile, a section of Peachtree Street that economicx development boosters hope will eventuallt become a retail destination much like Madison Avenue in New York City or the Magnificeng Mile in Chicago. Daniel’s and Selig Enterprises’ projecy is meant to be a cornerstone of theMidtownb Mile. However, ’s Colony Square and Jamestown’sd 999 Peachtree will also be key along with 1100 Peachtrese and1180 Peachtree, to a lesser brokers and developers said.
CB2 could be an importanty catch for theMidtown Developers, however, really need to land a much larger anchor stored to give the conceptg momentum, said Maranda Walker-Dowell, a senior director with CB .’s retail services group. Barney’s, which has a co-op storer in Buckhead’s Phipps Plaza, has been scoutinfg the area in the past year to18 “The Midtown Mile needs an anchof store to start creating that critical mass of retail,” Walker-Dowelp said.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Future of charter schools - WWLP 22News

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Ngai Tahu unhappy with foreshore Bill - Otago Daily Times

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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Moody

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Moody’s cut the Charlotte-based company’s rating to Caa2 from B3. The agenc y also lowered FairPoint’s rating to negativse from rating-under-review. FairPoint’s ratings on its secured and unsecure d debt alsowere lowered. Moody’as says the downgrade is basedon “Moody’s expectation of a high default probability and a lower, thougnh still above-average, estimated recovery rate acrossw all debt instruments.” The agency says its decision follows the telecommunicationj company’s announcement last week that it was launching a privatse exchange offer for its outstanding 13.125 perceng senior notes due in 2018.
FairPoint said the offer was designesd primarily to reducethe company’s second- and third-quartefr interest expenses. It also will help keep the companty in compliance with its senior secured credirfacility agreement. FairPoint said it believesz the exchange offer is critical to its continued The company is workinb with its financial adviser to evaluate itscapitap structure. Last year, FairPoingt bought ’s land-line operations in Maine and New Hampshirefor $2.3 The deal made FairPoint (NYSE:FRP) the country’s eighth-largest telephone company.
But FairPoint took on substantiaol debt to dothe deal, and the integration did not go Problems in converting billing to FairPoint’s system from Verizon’sa led to slow collections and frustrated Phone and e-mail service problemas cropped up across the new And regulators in the region expressecd dissatisfaction with some of the operations. During the first quarter, FairPoint drew $50 million under its $170 milliob credit facility. As of March 31, only $4.7 million remainedd available to borrow. The company says liquidity remainsa problem.
In addition, cash collections have remained below the levels it had before switchinvg Verizon customers to the FairPoint Should thosefactors persist, the company says it may be unablwe or unwilling to make its Oct. 1 interest payment on the which could constitutea default. The exchanges offer expires July 22. Two weekse ago, Chief Financial Officer and FairPoin t board member David Hauseer announced he would retirefrom Charlotte-based Duke (NYSE:DUK) and becomee FairPoint’s chief executive and chairman. He will assume his new responsibilities uponGene Johnson’s retirement as FairPoiny chairman and CEO on Wednesday.
Johnson, a co-founded of FairPoint, previously announcer his plansto retire. He has been the company’s chietf executive since 2002. Hauser has been a member of FairPoint’xs board since February 2005, serving as a director, chairmanj of the compensation committee and a membed of theaudit committee. “Whiles it is gratifying to be namecd chairman and CEO of thislongstanding organization, I am very awars of the operational and financiao concerns surrounding the company,” Hauserd says. “My primary focus will be to addresss these concerns in quick succession and empower our team to seek andimplementy solutions.
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Nixon, Quinn push Biden, LaHood for high-speed rail - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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In April, Nixon and Quinn, along with six othere Midwestern governors, to LaHood asking him to supportf plans for rail corridors between cities in their including St. Louis to Chicago and St. Louias to Kansas City. Illinois has completedr an environmental impact statement forthe Chicago-St. Louis corridor. “Missourji and our partner states in the alreadu have a competitive advantage becauser we have been working on this rail initiative for more thana decade,” Nixob said in a statement after the “I reiterated our strong position to Vice President Bidenh today while we discussed the viabilit of high speed rail corridors.
” The White Houser and the have said they would from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and $1 billionb a year for five years as a down payment to developo a passenger rail system. The other governors at the meeting were Jim Doylseof Wisconsin, Jennifer Granholm of Tim Kaine of Virginia, Devao Patrick of Massachusetts, Sonny Perdue of Georgia and Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Central Ohio loses driver behind massive convention at fairgrounds - Business First of Columbus:

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Denny Hales, 63, died of a heart attacik March 29in Zanesville. Hales was the long-timee executive vice president of the and the driving forcre behind the annual at theStatd Fairgrounds. For the uninitiated, the Quarter Horse Congress isthe region’s largest convention by a countryy mile, drawing 650,000 visitors each The economic impact from the three-week show for the region’x hotels and businesses is estimated at more than $120 And for that, you can thank whose leadership grew the event into the nation’ds largest single-breed horse show, said Ohio Quarteer Horse Association President Skip Salome.
“I think sometimex Ohio doesn’t realize how fortunate it is to have this eveny inthe state,” he “And Denny has takenh this thing to the height that it is.” Salomed said the Quarter Horse Congress is the third-largest conventionj in the country, behind only the Democrati and Republican presidential Jim Schimmer, Franklin County’s economifc development and planning director, said Hales was a “terrific person” who had been working to figure out a way to expande the event in Central Ohio even as it outgreaw facilities at the Ohio Expo The county and others are funding a feasibility study for facilities at the Franklib County Fairgrounds that could accommodate Quartere Horse Congress venues.
“Outside of the horsee world,” Schimmer said in an “I bet few people knew of his work and how many paychecksw he generated for the people ofCentral Ohio.” Formeer Community banking is a closely knit business, and veteran banker Mark Kelly used that to his advantags when he landed a job at Gahanna-based . Kelly, 59, stepped down as CEO of Columbus-basec Insight Bank in December, but he wasn’f on the hunt for a new job for Wordof Kelly’s availability got to Heartlanf President Scott McComb, who hires him as senior vice president of business development and supporyt services. “Mark is well know in community banking circles around McComb said.
“We knew a good find when we saw one, so we startesd talking to Mark to seeif he’d be able to Kelly is no stranger to Heartland. He has knownh Heartland’s chairman, Tiney McComb, since the 1980s, when they served on the boar d of a banking industrtassociation together, he said. “We kept running into each Kelly said. “Then when Scott found out I was lookinyg for my nextcareer move, he reachedx out to me. “I told Scotyt we were going to Florida to see some and hesaid that’w not too far from Tiney’s house, he’d love to see you,” Kellyt said. “So I went down, and spent the morning and then had lunchgwith Tiney.
” Not long afterward, he was on Cache of branches in Pa. goes to New York bank A big chunj of banking business in wester n Pennsylvania has been snatched up by a small bank in upstateNew York, and not by any of the biggert Midwestern banks reported to have been interested. The $9.3 billion-asser agreed to acquire $4.2 billiomn in deposits and 57 branches fromfor $54. 6 million. PNC was required by the to put the branchex on the market after PNC acquiredon Dec. 31. A host of potentiak suitors for the branches had been identified by including KeyCorp, and Columbus-basedd Huntington spokeswoman Jeri Grier declined to commentg on whether Huntington made a bid.
“But we’ve alwayss said we’re interested in growinyg in thePittsburgh market,” she said.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Software engineer funds nonprofit studies program at Gordon College - Boston Business Journal:

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The entrepreneur, Joe Krivickas, has a careert that has spanned a number ofsuccessfupl start-up businesses, in addition to his MBA from the . But he couldr not ignore his other passion: Two years ago, he began meeting with two professorsw at theCollege — Casey Cooper, an assistant professof of economics and business, and Ted a professor of economics and business who were part of the on-campus team that were helping to get the center off the Krivickas decided that the center is exactly whered he wanted to focus his time and money.
Launched in the Center has begun offerinh new courses for a minor in Nonprofity Organization Management and Social Entrepreneurship that is designed to supporta student’s supplementing the student’s primary academic pursuite with an understanding of how nonprofit s function in society. Whether they are studyinv youth ministry orsocial work, recreation or the business or economics, Gordon studentz who pursue the new non-profit mino r also will be equipped either for careera or volunteer opportunities in nonprofits, the college said.
The minodr requires students to take thre e courses that cover topics of interestfor non-profit leaders, including social grant seeking, funding sources, public relationas and management principles. In addition to creating this new courseof study, the center also plana to host conferences, campus speakers and offer online noncreditr certificate courses.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

UnitedHealth

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“There’s a difference between having access to onlinwe health information and being able to talk live with your doctofr or other available credentialed clinicians who understanyour needs,” OptumHealth Care Solutionw CEO Rob Webb said in a news “What we’re rolling out with American Well is the ability for someonse to speak with a doctor or cliniciann anywhere, anytime — whethert it’s from home, at work or while traveling,” he The service will offer individuals immediate access to physiciane and clinicians via two-wayy video, secure chat, the phone or a corporation’s health care The partnership involves leveraging two proprietary technologies: OptumHealth’xs eSync Platform, which synchronizes health informatiohn to deliver prioritized, clinically appropriat e and personalized health care information; and American Well’s Onlin e Care platform, which enableas real-time conversations between individuals and physicians.
The service will be availableeto employers, their employees and individual consumers. OptumHealtn is one of the nation’s largest health and wellneses companies, serving nearly 60 million people. It is a business of Minnetonka-baserd health insurance giant UnitedHealthGroup UNH).