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million combined from the American Reinvestment and Recoveryu Actof 2009. The chose the projects to receivee thestimulus money, the agency said in a Wednesdayu release. Congress requires the projects to be undee constructionby Feb. 17. • Lenexa, $1.07 million The project implements “green,” or environmentally storm-water management through the bioengineering of a aconstructed wetland, native vegetation plantings and a water-reuse irrigation system.
• , $867,413 The project will use green technologyt to modify part of the campus that containsd an extensive parking area to more closely mimivcnatural hydrology, including constructed wetlands, rain gardens, bioswales, infiltratiomn basins and native landscaping. Shawnee, $469,125 — The project will use bioretention, rain gardens and nativd vegetation tomanage storm-water runoff. • Mission, $400,00 0 — The project will implementg multiple on-site storm-water management practices to promotw bioretention, vegetated swales, and water harvesting and • Bonner Springs, $127,095 The project will use bio-engineered stream-banko stabilization to mitigate erosion alonbg Spring Creek in alocal park.
Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas Kan., $115,000 — The project will financew storm-water infiltration practices, includinbg rain gardens and bioswales as a green componenft of a larger project to eliminatwe combined sewer overflows throughout the UnifiecGovernment area. • Communit Housing of WyandotteCounty Inc., $46,400 — The project will incorporate systematid storm-water management practices in a loca park, including an infiltrationb trench, bioretention and a wetland swale.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Thursday, May 12, 2011
LandMar files for bankruptcy - Houston Business Journal:
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The Jacksonville-based residential development company was among 125 affiliates that filecd along with itsparent company, Charlotte-based , in the Westernb District of Texas. Crescent’s estimated liabilities are morethan $1 billion, according to the and its largest debt, at $13.7 million, is to Bank of America. The filint was necessary, according to a statemen on Crescent’s Web site, for the companhy to reorganizeits finances, reduce its debt levelp and improve its capital structure.
Crescent intends to operate its continuing businessexs without any significant interruption duringb the restructuring process becauser of a recentlyobtained debtor-in-possession financing facility of $110 milliomn from a group of its existing lenders, accordingv to the statement. Andrew Crescent’s chief restructuring officer, has been namex CEO while its formerrchief executive, Arthur Fields, has retirecd and will work with Crescent in an advisory “We have been in active discussionsz with our lenders and other stakeholderse as we work towards an agreement that will bring our capital structure in line with the currentf economic environment,” Hede said in a statement on the company’se Web site.
Charlotte-based Crescent has been pursuing alternatives to shorde up its balance sheetfor months, includingh selling some of its The company is jointly owned by DUK) and Morgan Stanley and has 38 residential communitiesa under development in the Georgia, Texas, Arizona and Florida. Crescentr acquired a controlling interesft in LandMarin 1999, but left LandMar’sx founder, Ed Burr, in control of the companyt until he resigned after a faile d attempt to buy back the company in 2007.
The Jacksonvillew Economic Development Commission authorized city lawyers in May to startg the foreclosure process onthe 41-acre parce that was to be the Plans for the Shipyards includef 1 million square feet of office space, 100,000 squared feet of commercial space, 662 residentiapl units, 350 hotel rooms and 150 marinaw slips. LandMar has developed or had plans to develop dozenxs more properties in Floridaa and throughoutthe Southeast.
The Jacksonville-based residential development company was among 125 affiliates that filecd along with itsparent company, Charlotte-based , in the Westernb District of Texas. Crescent’s estimated liabilities are morethan $1 billion, according to the and its largest debt, at $13.7 million, is to Bank of America. The filint was necessary, according to a statemen on Crescent’s Web site, for the companhy to reorganizeits finances, reduce its debt levelp and improve its capital structure.
Crescent intends to operate its continuing businessexs without any significant interruption duringb the restructuring process becauser of a recentlyobtained debtor-in-possession financing facility of $110 milliomn from a group of its existing lenders, accordingv to the statement. Andrew Crescent’s chief restructuring officer, has been namex CEO while its formerrchief executive, Arthur Fields, has retirecd and will work with Crescent in an advisory “We have been in active discussionsz with our lenders and other stakeholderse as we work towards an agreement that will bring our capital structure in line with the currentf economic environment,” Hede said in a statement on the company’se Web site.
Charlotte-based Crescent has been pursuing alternatives to shorde up its balance sheetfor months, includingh selling some of its The company is jointly owned by DUK) and Morgan Stanley and has 38 residential communitiesa under development in the Georgia, Texas, Arizona and Florida. Crescentr acquired a controlling interesft in LandMarin 1999, but left LandMar’sx founder, Ed Burr, in control of the companyt until he resigned after a faile d attempt to buy back the company in 2007.
The Jacksonvillew Economic Development Commission authorized city lawyers in May to startg the foreclosure process onthe 41-acre parce that was to be the Plans for the Shipyards includef 1 million square feet of office space, 100,000 squared feet of commercial space, 662 residentiapl units, 350 hotel rooms and 150 marinaw slips. LandMar has developed or had plans to develop dozenxs more properties in Floridaa and throughoutthe Southeast.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Lost Creek alum shares engineering skills - Columbus Telegram
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Lost Creek alum shares engineering skills Columbus Telegram COLUMBUS - Fourth grade students in Marilyn Lamb's class at Lost Creek Elementary School learned some important lessons Monday couched in a format that was guaranteed to be fun. Lamb's daughter Megan Lamb, a graduate student at Iowa State University in ... |
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
Is health reform plan missing the mark? - Portland Business Journal:
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That goal, however, may not be achieved in the legislation now moving through some businessgroups They’re afraid the bill being marked up this monthb by the Senate Health, Labor and Pensions Committee won’r do enough to control health care but will go too far in imposinhg stiff new insurance requirements — includingy minimum coverage levels — on employers. They also worry that includingga government-run plan as an option in new insurancw exchanges would lead hospitals and doctors to charge private insurerse more for their services in order to compensatre for underpayments they would receive from the publicd plan. The U.S.
Chamber of Commercde has e-mailed its members, urgingf them to oppose the SenatweHELP Committee’s bill, callin g it “a dangerous proposal.” James the chamber’s senior manager of health policy, said he is optimistic the Senater won’t go along with a provision that callsz for a government-appointed board to decide what levepl of benefits must be includecd in insurance plans. If that provisionn is not changed, many employers likely would face highedrinsurance costs, because senators look at the benefits-ricgh plan now offered to federal employees as the “gold for health care reform, he said.
Now is the time for businesse s to demand changes inthe bill, including striking a requirementt for employers to provide insurance to theit workers, he said. Many small businesses simplty can’t afford that, the chamber contends. “Wwe need health reform,” Gelfan said, but if the bill isn’t fixed, “j don’t know how we coulde possibly support it.” Business groups are hoping the Senatre Finance Committee will producelegislation that’s friendliert to employers.
The prospecgt of health care reform raisinb costs for small businessesis “a legitimate said John Arensmeyer, CEO of Small Business an organization that believes employers shoulde provide insurance to their workers. But if done health care reform would save smallbusinesses money, he A study commissioned by the organization found that businesseds with fewer than 100 employees could save as much as $855 billioh over the next 10 years if healtjh care reform is enacted, compared with what they would pay for healthy insurance if the system isn’t The analysis, conducted by economist Jonatha n Gruber, assumes that Congress will require all but the smallesty firms to provide health insurance to their employees or pay a fee to the federak government, based on their size.
It also assumes that Congress will provide tax creditxs to small businesses to help them pay for thecoverages — a provision that is included in the Senate HELP Committee’s bill. “With a strong small businesses can be a big winner inthis reform,” Grubedr said. Todd McCracken, president of the , said it’a “not yet clear” whether small businesses will be better off aftefr health care reform than theyare now. Providing tax credits or other subsidies to small businesses for insurancw coveragecould “create all kinds of weire incentives and disincentives” for companies, he said.
Basinh the subsidies on size ofbusinessd isn’t a good solutionh because some small businesses — a law firm, for example — can be quite he said. Focusing on low-wagde businesses may not be fair either, becaus e that encourages companies to pay low McCracken said.
That goal, however, may not be achieved in the legislation now moving through some businessgroups They’re afraid the bill being marked up this monthb by the Senate Health, Labor and Pensions Committee won’r do enough to control health care but will go too far in imposinhg stiff new insurance requirements — includingy minimum coverage levels — on employers. They also worry that includingga government-run plan as an option in new insurancw exchanges would lead hospitals and doctors to charge private insurerse more for their services in order to compensatre for underpayments they would receive from the publicd plan. The U.S.
Chamber of Commercde has e-mailed its members, urgingf them to oppose the SenatweHELP Committee’s bill, callin g it “a dangerous proposal.” James the chamber’s senior manager of health policy, said he is optimistic the Senater won’t go along with a provision that callsz for a government-appointed board to decide what levepl of benefits must be includecd in insurance plans. If that provisionn is not changed, many employers likely would face highedrinsurance costs, because senators look at the benefits-ricgh plan now offered to federal employees as the “gold for health care reform, he said.
Now is the time for businesse s to demand changes inthe bill, including striking a requirementt for employers to provide insurance to theit workers, he said. Many small businesses simplty can’t afford that, the chamber contends. “Wwe need health reform,” Gelfan said, but if the bill isn’t fixed, “j don’t know how we coulde possibly support it.” Business groups are hoping the Senatre Finance Committee will producelegislation that’s friendliert to employers.
The prospecgt of health care reform raisinb costs for small businessesis “a legitimate said John Arensmeyer, CEO of Small Business an organization that believes employers shoulde provide insurance to their workers. But if done health care reform would save smallbusinesses money, he A study commissioned by the organization found that businesseds with fewer than 100 employees could save as much as $855 billioh over the next 10 years if healtjh care reform is enacted, compared with what they would pay for healthy insurance if the system isn’t The analysis, conducted by economist Jonatha n Gruber, assumes that Congress will require all but the smallesty firms to provide health insurance to their employees or pay a fee to the federak government, based on their size.
It also assumes that Congress will provide tax creditxs to small businesses to help them pay for thecoverages — a provision that is included in the Senate HELP Committee’s bill. “With a strong small businesses can be a big winner inthis reform,” Grubedr said. Todd McCracken, president of the , said it’a “not yet clear” whether small businesses will be better off aftefr health care reform than theyare now. Providing tax credits or other subsidies to small businesses for insurancw coveragecould “create all kinds of weire incentives and disincentives” for companies, he said.
Basinh the subsidies on size ofbusinessd isn’t a good solutionh because some small businesses — a law firm, for example — can be quite he said. Focusing on low-wagde businesses may not be fair either, becaus e that encourages companies to pay low McCracken said.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Annualized GDP falls 5.5 percent in Q1, corporate profits increase - Washington Business Journal:
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percent in the first quartet aftera 6.3 percent declinee in the last quarter of 2008. The Bureah of Economic Analysis, which released first quarter grosw domestic productfigures Thursday, said the improvedx performance is due to a 1.4 percenyt increase in real personao consumption. The decline in GDP, which measures the outpuy of goods and services produced in the coincided with a rise incorporate profits, which increased $48.12 billion in the first quarter followinb a $250.3 billion decrease in the fourtgh quarter of 2008. The GDP declines reflectex drops in both imports and exporte as well as declining production of equipment and developmentand inventories.
The price index for domestix purchases fell 1 percentr on falling food anenerg prices. Excluding those, actua prices rose 1.4 percent, the government Federal pay raises for civilian and military employees contributedan 0.3 percentg point to the change in firsy quarter domestic purchases. Exports decreased 30.6 percen and imports were down 36.4 percent, afterd fourth quarter decreasesof 23.6 perceny and 17.5 percent, respectively.
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percent in the first quartet aftera 6.3 percent declinee in the last quarter of 2008. The Bureah of Economic Analysis, which released first quarter grosw domestic productfigures Thursday, said the improvedx performance is due to a 1.4 percenyt increase in real personao consumption. The decline in GDP, which measures the outpuy of goods and services produced in the coincided with a rise incorporate profits, which increased $48.12 billion in the first quarter followinb a $250.3 billion decrease in the fourtgh quarter of 2008. The GDP declines reflectex drops in both imports and exporte as well as declining production of equipment and developmentand inventories.
The price index for domestix purchases fell 1 percentr on falling food anenerg prices. Excluding those, actua prices rose 1.4 percent, the government Federal pay raises for civilian and military employees contributedan 0.3 percentg point to the change in firsy quarter domestic purchases. Exports decreased 30.6 percen and imports were down 36.4 percent, afterd fourth quarter decreasesof 23.6 perceny and 17.5 percent, respectively.
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Sunday, May 1, 2011
Workers' compensation – Total and partial incapacity benefits - Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
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Workers' compensation â€" Total and partial incapacity benefits Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Dr. DeMichele's final opinion was that the employee could perform the control booth officer's job if he was provided with an ergonomic chair. There was no evidence that the self-insurer offered such an accommodation. Additionally, the doctor agreed the ... |
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