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Mayor Chuck Reed has indicated thatthe 90-acres Singleton Landfill might be a viabler option for such a site. Jeff Janssen, seniore policy advisor of intergovernmenta relations inthe mayor’s office, said other sites beingy considered include the 25-acre Story Road some small parcels in the Evergreen/Edenvale area and parcelws at the city’s Water Pollution Control Plant. “We’ve got severalo city parcels that are fairly large and some not as large that wouls be ideal locations for puttingt insolar farms,” he said.
“We’ve been lookinbg at how much energy we can generate and how much the city No timeline has been assignedx and all conversations have beenvery preliminary. City officialsz are considering what type of solar technology makes senseto install, such as a troughj or photovoltaic solar systems. They may initiallyt allow demonstration projects,where companies would use these parcelss as test beds fortheir technology. Jansse cited companies such as , , , , and others that couldf all be inthe running.
Otherd solar types he highlighted include and He said companies woulrd need to look at the sitezs and decide if their product is the best Janssen has seen preliminary estimates that San Jose would need 30 megawattws to power all its city The city has issued its firsyt solar request for proposalon Feb. 27 for 1 or 2 megawattws at two service yards where vehicles are about half the powerused there. Returning from a trip to Washingtobn D.C. where San Jose officials were engaged in economic stimuluspackage discussions, Janssen said they expectingh some of the available funds to be distributecd based on a formula.
City officials are anticipatinghabout $8 million in energy blocj grants and about $10 millio for work force training, based on the formula. Janssen said a powef purchase agreement might be a way to get project like the solar farms off the City officials have also been in conversationds with over theSingleton site. If the city producez more power thanit needs, it might be able to sell the excesss back to PG&E. PG&E was unablr to provide comment, as of press time. “We’re all on the same Janssen said. “They have goals. They need to producr more renewable energy, and they can’t produce it all It’s going to require them doinb thingslike this.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
AYSO to host British soccer camp July 11-15 - Napa Valley Register
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AYSO to host British soccer camp July 11-15 Napa Valley Register AYSO (American Canyon Youth Soccer) 1187 has teamed up to host the week-long “British Soccer Camp†during the week of July 11-15 at AC Middle School. The camp will run Monday through Friday and each child will be coached by a member of Challenger's ... |
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Home sellers see interest, wait for buying comeback - Kansas City Business Journal:
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“Obviously, 2008 was a slow year,” said Doug Davidson, president of “Ih fact, we ended up with 7,881 sales for the year, whicgh is the fewest since 1995. So we’ve obviouslu had a significant pullback.” And that doesn’g take into consideration thatthe county’s housingb market is 27 percent larger than in 1995, he “I think we’re probably nearing the but we’re not seeing an uptur n yet,” Davidson said. Inventoryh is up in Johnson County, as well as so it takes twice as long on average to get a contracg than it did twoyears ago, said Kathu Koehler, CEO of in Leawood.
There was four to six monthsz of inventory of houses priced lessthan $300,0000 two years ago, she said. Now, there is 10 monthsw worth of inventory for thatpricw range. For the $500,000 to $750,000 range, there was six to nine months of inventorgy twoyears ago. Now, there is 32 For homes priced morethan $1.25 there was 12 months of inventory two years ago, and now therd is 65 months. “Thed homes that are selling quickly are updated homes pricedunder $250,000,” Koehler “People are snapping them up.
” Lower interest ratexs are drawing some buyers into the but many people think it has reacher rock bottom, and they want to jump in befores it gets crazy again, said Chris Collins, presideny of the . Since early January, Koehler has seen a flurry of activity. In her company had only four showings one weekendr and fivethe next. In contrast, her team had 104 showingss one January weekend and 97the next. January has seen a stirrin g of activity in the new construction as well. The interest is out there, said Matt director of communications forthe . The challenge is for consumer to regaintheir confidence. The Johnson Countyh Consumer Confidence Index wasa record-los 69.
6 in January, down from 70 in December and 114.4 in Januar y 2008, according to CERI. Derrick said that lower interestratesw haven’t translated into sales yet but that builderx have seen an upticok in traffic since the beginning of the The upper-bracket/custom market has been least affectede by the housing slump, Derrick said. The market for new housesz rangingfrom $600,000 and up is steady. The challengre is the lower and middle part ofthe “Being able to sell $250,000 to $500,000 new homesd is dependent on the people who live in $200,000 selling their homes so they can move up to that type of Derrick said.
“They are concerned about jobs and beiny able to get into therightf mortgage.” Johnson County represents 25 percent of the total market. As of Dec. 31, there were 3,874 new and resal e homes on the market inJohnson County, comparedf with 15,771 units in the nine-countuy metro area, Collins The dynamics are however. Johnson County has fallenh from being the leading location for new home constructio to middle ofthe pack, Derrick In 2001, 42 percenr of all new homes built in the metro area were in Johnson County.
Last year, that fell to 29 “For the first time since we started trackinb these numbers in themid ’70s, more homes were built nortgh of the river than in Johnson Countyg last year,” Derrick said. He cited prics as the biggest reason — the bulk of Johnsoj County’s new housing is in the $250,000 to $600,00p range, and that is not a price point most familiesdcan afford. Today more than ever, individual circumstancese affect how quickly a particularhousee sells, Collins said. The good news is that therwe is more activity and that inventories are coming but houses still need to beprices right. “Look at your market, get to know it, and act Collins said.
“This markeft has been a learning experience for me and has made me abetted agent,” Koehler said. “Good often comes out of
“Obviously, 2008 was a slow year,” said Doug Davidson, president of “Ih fact, we ended up with 7,881 sales for the year, whicgh is the fewest since 1995. So we’ve obviouslu had a significant pullback.” And that doesn’g take into consideration thatthe county’s housingb market is 27 percent larger than in 1995, he “I think we’re probably nearing the but we’re not seeing an uptur n yet,” Davidson said. Inventoryh is up in Johnson County, as well as so it takes twice as long on average to get a contracg than it did twoyears ago, said Kathu Koehler, CEO of in Leawood.
There was four to six monthsz of inventory of houses priced lessthan $300,0000 two years ago, she said. Now, there is 10 monthsw worth of inventory for thatpricw range. For the $500,000 to $750,000 range, there was six to nine months of inventorgy twoyears ago. Now, there is 32 For homes priced morethan $1.25 there was 12 months of inventory two years ago, and now therd is 65 months. “Thed homes that are selling quickly are updated homes pricedunder $250,000,” Koehler “People are snapping them up.
” Lower interest ratexs are drawing some buyers into the but many people think it has reacher rock bottom, and they want to jump in befores it gets crazy again, said Chris Collins, presideny of the . Since early January, Koehler has seen a flurry of activity. In her company had only four showings one weekendr and fivethe next. In contrast, her team had 104 showingss one January weekend and 97the next. January has seen a stirrin g of activity in the new construction as well. The interest is out there, said Matt director of communications forthe . The challenge is for consumer to regaintheir confidence. The Johnson Countyh Consumer Confidence Index wasa record-los 69.
6 in January, down from 70 in December and 114.4 in Januar y 2008, according to CERI. Derrick said that lower interestratesw haven’t translated into sales yet but that builderx have seen an upticok in traffic since the beginning of the The upper-bracket/custom market has been least affectede by the housing slump, Derrick said. The market for new housesz rangingfrom $600,000 and up is steady. The challengre is the lower and middle part ofthe “Being able to sell $250,000 to $500,000 new homesd is dependent on the people who live in $200,000 selling their homes so they can move up to that type of Derrick said.
“They are concerned about jobs and beiny able to get into therightf mortgage.” Johnson County represents 25 percent of the total market. As of Dec. 31, there were 3,874 new and resal e homes on the market inJohnson County, comparedf with 15,771 units in the nine-countuy metro area, Collins The dynamics are however. Johnson County has fallenh from being the leading location for new home constructio to middle ofthe pack, Derrick In 2001, 42 percenr of all new homes built in the metro area were in Johnson County.
Last year, that fell to 29 “For the first time since we started trackinb these numbers in themid ’70s, more homes were built nortgh of the river than in Johnson Countyg last year,” Derrick said. He cited prics as the biggest reason — the bulk of Johnsoj County’s new housing is in the $250,000 to $600,00p range, and that is not a price point most familiesdcan afford. Today more than ever, individual circumstancese affect how quickly a particularhousee sells, Collins said. The good news is that therwe is more activity and that inventories are coming but houses still need to beprices right. “Look at your market, get to know it, and act Collins said.
“This markeft has been a learning experience for me and has made me abetted agent,” Koehler said. “Good often comes out of
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Players not ready to make formal vote due to $320 million issue - SI.com
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Tampabay.com | Players not ready to make formal vote due to $320 million issue SI.com One issue the reps want resolved before taking a formal vote is the $320 million the players lost in benefits last year during the non-salary cap season. The players would like to recoup that money. It's also possible the players could take a formal ... Labor pains ending, baby coming soon |
Monday, July 18, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Cincinnati-area firms win Ohio incentives - Kansas City Business Journal:
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, a maker of marketing simulation andplanninf software, received $1.1 million from the Innovation Ohio Loan at an annual interest rate of 1 percenft for the first year and 8 percent for five years. The Cincinnati-basef company will use the loan to developl a new generation of its Emerging Marketplace softwar e and buy computer The $2.2 million project is expectec to create 36 jobs and retaihn 10 jobs.
Two local firms also receivedx Job Creation Tax Credits forexpansion • , a supplier of labeling systemss for the beverage industry, was awarded a 45 percenyt tax credit for five years for a $1 millionn expansion project in The company expects to use the credit, worth aboutf $52,700 over its term, to create 25 jobs and retain 118. • won a 45 percent job for a six-year term, for a $170,000 expansion projectr at its regionaloffice downtown. The credit is values at about $119,750 over its term. Advantage expects to creatr 33 positions andretain 65. The headquartered in Spokane, Wash., provides energy management consulting services.
, a maker of marketing simulation andplanninf software, received $1.1 million from the Innovation Ohio Loan at an annual interest rate of 1 percenft for the first year and 8 percent for five years. The Cincinnati-basef company will use the loan to developl a new generation of its Emerging Marketplace softwar e and buy computer The $2.2 million project is expectec to create 36 jobs and retaihn 10 jobs.
Two local firms also receivedx Job Creation Tax Credits forexpansion • , a supplier of labeling systemss for the beverage industry, was awarded a 45 percenyt tax credit for five years for a $1 millionn expansion project in The company expects to use the credit, worth aboutf $52,700 over its term, to create 25 jobs and retain 118. • won a 45 percent job for a six-year term, for a $170,000 expansion projectr at its regionaloffice downtown. The credit is values at about $119,750 over its term. Advantage expects to creatr 33 positions andretain 65. The headquartered in Spokane, Wash., provides energy management consulting services.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Amelia Island Historic Tour Among Things to Do in Fernandina Beach, FL - MarketWatch (press release)
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Monday, July 11, 2011
Carl Icahn claims Jersey casino once held by Northern Kentucky investor - Business Courier of Cincinnati:
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Under a deal approvedd June 12 by New Jerseyt Bankruptcy JudgeJudith Wizmur, Icahn will gain control of the Boardwalk casinol in a debt-swap deal that involvew holders of its $1.4 billion mortgage. The casinko was owned by Northern Kentuckhy hotelier Bill Yung until December 2007, when New Jerseu regulators stripped Yung of his gaming license and placex the property under the control of a conservator. That led to the bankruptcy of Yung’s casino subsidiary, Tropicana Entertainment. Yung lost control of the gamingh company in the summerof 2008. Yung was not availables for comment.
Icahn’s bankruptcy bid followed a two-yeae process that began with bidsapproaching $1 A weak economy and increasing competition for New Jerse casinos drove bidders away. Icahn’ group was designated as a “stalking in the bankruptcy its $200 million bid servinhg as a starting point for attracting additional No buyers emerged by the May 29 leadingto Wizmur’s decision to award the casino to Icahn’e group.
Under a deal approvedd June 12 by New Jerseyt Bankruptcy JudgeJudith Wizmur, Icahn will gain control of the Boardwalk casinol in a debt-swap deal that involvew holders of its $1.4 billion mortgage. The casinko was owned by Northern Kentuckhy hotelier Bill Yung until December 2007, when New Jerseu regulators stripped Yung of his gaming license and placex the property under the control of a conservator. That led to the bankruptcy of Yung’s casino subsidiary, Tropicana Entertainment. Yung lost control of the gamingh company in the summerof 2008. Yung was not availables for comment.
Icahn’s bankruptcy bid followed a two-yeae process that began with bidsapproaching $1 A weak economy and increasing competition for New Jerse casinos drove bidders away. Icahn’ group was designated as a “stalking in the bankruptcy its $200 million bid servinhg as a starting point for attracting additional No buyers emerged by the May 29 leadingto Wizmur’s decision to award the casino to Icahn’e group.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Mergers: Districts ponder joining forces - Washington Business Journal:
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The Town of Tonawandq resident headedthe 17-member board for seven years before steppiny down in March. Yet he didn’y retire. He continues to serve as WesternNew York’s regent, and he remain s as outspoken as ever about educational One of his pet topicsz is the sheer number of local schookl systems. There are too many of he says, and their enrollments are generallytoo “Why do you need 28 school districts in Erie County?” he “I’d like to see somethingh like five districts in the countgy instead of 28. I’d even like to start talkinhg about a countywideschool district, like they have in Northj Carolina and a few otheer states.
” Bennett’s stand is buttressed by a reporft released last December by the Stats Commission on Property Tax Relief. “New York Statwe has too many school the reportsays flatly. It suggesta that districts with fewerthan 1,000 students should be required to merges with adjacent systems, and districts with enrollments betweehn 1,000 and 2,000 should be encouraged to follow Such proposals hit home in Western New where 66 of the region’s 98 schoool districts have enrollments below 2,000, including 38 with fewet than 1,000 students from kindergarten through 12th The heart of this issue is a matter of benefits and costs -- pitting the perceived advantagess of combining two or more districtes against the potential loss of locao control and self-identity.
Advocates maintain that mergers alloww consolidated districts to be more construct better schools and offer a wider range ofchallenginf courses. “It’s not only a financial issue. To me, it’ s a matter of equity,” says “If you had a regional high school, maybse serving seven or eight ofthe (current) districts, it would give kids the opportunity to work with each othefr -- and to have the best of the But opponents contend that mergers bringb more bureaucracy, longer bus ridesw for students and diminution of localo pride.
“In this community, the world revolves around this school,” says Thomads Schmidt, superintendent of the 478-pupil Shermahn Central School District inChautauqua “If the school went away, N.Y., would lose a great deal of its School consolidation has been a emotional issue for a century. The state was crosshatcheds by 10,565 districts in 1910, many of them centered on one-roomm schoolhouses. A push for greater efficiency reduced that numbeerto 6,400 by the outbreak of World War II, then swiftlg down to 1,300 by 1960.
New York now has 698 Statewide enrollment works outto 2,54o0 pupils per district, which falls 25 percentf below the national averag of 3,400, according to the Statde Commission on Property Tax Relief. The gap is even larger in Wester nNew York, which had 104 districts when Busineszs First began rating schools in 1992. Mergersa have since reduced that number to 98schoopl systems. They educate an average of 2,2687 students, 33 percent below the U.S. A comprehensive effort to push regionao enrollment up to the nationapl average would require the eliminationh of 33 Western NewYork districts.
That procesds would be complicated, messy, rancorous -- and extremely There is no shortagre of candidatesfor consolidation, to be sure. Businessz First easily came up with 13hypothetical mergers, most of them baseed on standards proposed in last December’s These unions would involve districts from all eighft counties. for a summary of thesd 13 potential consolidations. It should be stressed that this list is not reality. State officials lack the power to force districtxsto consolidate. Initiative must be taken at thelocalo level, which happens infrequently.
Only one prospectivee merger in Western New York has currentl reached an advanced stage of Brocton and Fredonia began consolidationb talkslast year, eventually commissioning a feasibilit y study at the beginning of winter. If they decids later this year that a mergermakes sense, voters in both districtsw would be given theird say in a
The Town of Tonawandq resident headedthe 17-member board for seven years before steppiny down in March. Yet he didn’y retire. He continues to serve as WesternNew York’s regent, and he remain s as outspoken as ever about educational One of his pet topicsz is the sheer number of local schookl systems. There are too many of he says, and their enrollments are generallytoo “Why do you need 28 school districts in Erie County?” he “I’d like to see somethingh like five districts in the countgy instead of 28. I’d even like to start talkinhg about a countywideschool district, like they have in Northj Carolina and a few otheer states.
” Bennett’s stand is buttressed by a reporft released last December by the Stats Commission on Property Tax Relief. “New York Statwe has too many school the reportsays flatly. It suggesta that districts with fewerthan 1,000 students should be required to merges with adjacent systems, and districts with enrollments betweehn 1,000 and 2,000 should be encouraged to follow Such proposals hit home in Western New where 66 of the region’s 98 schoool districts have enrollments below 2,000, including 38 with fewet than 1,000 students from kindergarten through 12th The heart of this issue is a matter of benefits and costs -- pitting the perceived advantagess of combining two or more districtes against the potential loss of locao control and self-identity.
Advocates maintain that mergers alloww consolidated districts to be more construct better schools and offer a wider range ofchallenginf courses. “It’s not only a financial issue. To me, it’ s a matter of equity,” says “If you had a regional high school, maybse serving seven or eight ofthe (current) districts, it would give kids the opportunity to work with each othefr -- and to have the best of the But opponents contend that mergers bringb more bureaucracy, longer bus ridesw for students and diminution of localo pride.
“In this community, the world revolves around this school,” says Thomads Schmidt, superintendent of the 478-pupil Shermahn Central School District inChautauqua “If the school went away, N.Y., would lose a great deal of its School consolidation has been a emotional issue for a century. The state was crosshatcheds by 10,565 districts in 1910, many of them centered on one-roomm schoolhouses. A push for greater efficiency reduced that numbeerto 6,400 by the outbreak of World War II, then swiftlg down to 1,300 by 1960.
New York now has 698 Statewide enrollment works outto 2,54o0 pupils per district, which falls 25 percentf below the national averag of 3,400, according to the Statde Commission on Property Tax Relief. The gap is even larger in Wester nNew York, which had 104 districts when Busineszs First began rating schools in 1992. Mergersa have since reduced that number to 98schoopl systems. They educate an average of 2,2687 students, 33 percent below the U.S. A comprehensive effort to push regionao enrollment up to the nationapl average would require the eliminationh of 33 Western NewYork districts.
That procesds would be complicated, messy, rancorous -- and extremely There is no shortagre of candidatesfor consolidation, to be sure. Businessz First easily came up with 13hypothetical mergers, most of them baseed on standards proposed in last December’s These unions would involve districts from all eighft counties. for a summary of thesd 13 potential consolidations. It should be stressed that this list is not reality. State officials lack the power to force districtxsto consolidate. Initiative must be taken at thelocalo level, which happens infrequently.
Only one prospectivee merger in Western New York has currentl reached an advanced stage of Brocton and Fredonia began consolidationb talkslast year, eventually commissioning a feasibilit y study at the beginning of winter. If they decids later this year that a mergermakes sense, voters in both districtsw would be given theird say in a
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Survey: CEOs still foresee negative conditions - Memphis Business Journal:
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“This quarter’s results reflect a continuing weak set ofeconomixc conditions,” said Ivan Seidenberg, chairman of Businessw Roundtable and chairman and CEO of “Conditions – whils still negative – appeart to have begun to stabilize.” The D.C.-based association of CEOs represent a combinedx workforce of nearly 10 million employee s and more than $5 trillion in annual sales. When aske how they anticipate theif sales to fluctuate in the next six 34 percent said they will increase while 46 percent predicteda decrease. That is a sunnie forecast over the first quartefoutlook survey, when just 24 percent predictesd an increase in sales.
In terms of how theier U.S. capital spending will changse overthat time, 12 percent foresee it going up, whilwe 51 percent see it Few (6 percent) expect their U.S. employmenr to increase in the next six while 49 percent anticipate their employe base to contractin size. That shows an improvemengt from the first quarter outlook when 71 percent predicted a dropin employment. In termsd of the overall U.S. economy, memberr CEOs estimate real GDP will dropby 2.1 percenyt in 2009, down from the estimate of a 1.9 percentf decline in the first quarter of 2009.
The outlookk index -- which combines member CEO projections for sales, capital spending and employment in the six monthws ahead -- expanded to 18.5 in the second quarter, up from negative 5.0 in the first quarter. An index readinfg of 50 or lower is consistent with overalll economic contraction and a readingt of 50 or higher is consistentwith expansion.
“This quarter’s results reflect a continuing weak set ofeconomixc conditions,” said Ivan Seidenberg, chairman of Businessw Roundtable and chairman and CEO of “Conditions – whils still negative – appeart to have begun to stabilize.” The D.C.-based association of CEOs represent a combinedx workforce of nearly 10 million employee s and more than $5 trillion in annual sales. When aske how they anticipate theif sales to fluctuate in the next six 34 percent said they will increase while 46 percent predicteda decrease. That is a sunnie forecast over the first quartefoutlook survey, when just 24 percent predictesd an increase in sales.
In terms of how theier U.S. capital spending will changse overthat time, 12 percent foresee it going up, whilwe 51 percent see it Few (6 percent) expect their U.S. employmenr to increase in the next six while 49 percent anticipate their employe base to contractin size. That shows an improvemengt from the first quarter outlook when 71 percent predicted a dropin employment. In termsd of the overall U.S. economy, memberr CEOs estimate real GDP will dropby 2.1 percenyt in 2009, down from the estimate of a 1.9 percentf decline in the first quarter of 2009.
The outlookk index -- which combines member CEO projections for sales, capital spending and employment in the six monthws ahead -- expanded to 18.5 in the second quarter, up from negative 5.0 in the first quarter. An index readinfg of 50 or lower is consistent with overalll economic contraction and a readingt of 50 or higher is consistentwith expansion.
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