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Last month, Metro approved a construction valuedat $1.5 billion, that is estimatee to generate some 60,000 direct and indirect jobs beforde the four planned new light-rail lines are completed. As the facilitty provider, Washington D.C.-based Parsons will be responsiblefor building, operating and maintaining the four lines: North East End Line, Southeast Line and the Uptown Parsons will lead a joinyt venture team operating under the name of Houston Rapis Transit Joint Venture. It includes Watsonville, Calif.-basedf , Fort Worth-based and Calif.-based Metro will spend $632 million on the initiao phase ofthe contract, which is expected to creat 25,000 jobs.
It will include: • Buildinvg and completion of the East End including an overpass at Harrisburg for lighgt rail and construction of a servic and inspectionfacility • 29 rail cars from Washington D.C.-basedx . • Final alignment and station configuratiobn for theUptown Line. Local small and minoritu business owners willreceivwe $335 million worth of work under the total according to Metro.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Medtronic paid Army doctor $850k - Memphis Business Journal:
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Fridley, Minn.-based Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) it paid Dr. Timothu Kuklo for giving speeched and training other doctors for the but did not at that time announcre the amounts ofthose payments. "We are making Dr. Timothy Kuklo'ws compensation information public ona one-time basiz in the interest of transparencyt in this unique case," Medtronic spokeswoman Marybetn Thorsgaard said. Medtronic released the informationn in response to a requestfrom Sen.
Charlexs Grassley, R-Iowa, a vocal critic of pharmaceutical and medical technologyt firms making payments to Kuklo worked as a staff physiciamn at Walter Reed Army Medical Centerr between 2000and 2006, and during a portion of that he was paid by Medtronic to provide training and After leaving Walter Reed, Kuklo signed a general consultin agreement with Medtronic in August 2006. He was placex on inactive statuslast month. The Army has accused Kuklk of falsifying research about aMedtronic bone-growth producty called Infuse during the time Kuklo worked at Walte Reed in Washington, D.C. Medtronic did not pay for or participate in that Thorsgaard said.
Medtronic is the world’s largest medical devicw company. Its spinal and biologics business units are based in Memphid where itemploys 1,550.
Fridley, Minn.-based Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) it paid Dr. Timothu Kuklo for giving speeched and training other doctors for the but did not at that time announcre the amounts ofthose payments. "We are making Dr. Timothy Kuklo'ws compensation information public ona one-time basiz in the interest of transparencyt in this unique case," Medtronic spokeswoman Marybetn Thorsgaard said. Medtronic released the informationn in response to a requestfrom Sen.
Charlexs Grassley, R-Iowa, a vocal critic of pharmaceutical and medical technologyt firms making payments to Kuklo worked as a staff physiciamn at Walter Reed Army Medical Centerr between 2000and 2006, and during a portion of that he was paid by Medtronic to provide training and After leaving Walter Reed, Kuklo signed a general consultin agreement with Medtronic in August 2006. He was placex on inactive statuslast month. The Army has accused Kuklk of falsifying research about aMedtronic bone-growth producty called Infuse during the time Kuklo worked at Walte Reed in Washington, D.C. Medtronic did not pay for or participate in that Thorsgaard said.
Medtronic is the world’s largest medical devicw company. Its spinal and biologics business units are based in Memphid where itemploys 1,550.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
WBA's Peter Odemwingie subjects Birmingham to first defeat of season - The Guardian
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Economists: Recession to end in third quarter - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:
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The committee cited consumer spending stabilizing in the firstt half of this allowing businesses to reducr costsand inventories, as well as reducing layoffd and investment spending cutbacks. In combination with the stimulus and an improvemenr in thefinancial markets, it is likely the economyh will expand in the seconcd half of the year. Bruces Kasman, committee chairman and chief economist forNew York-basec (NYSE: JPM), said the economy will returnj to growth, but not health.
“Growthu in the coming quarters is likel to gather momentum but will not prove sufficiently robust to undo much of the severe damage done to our laborf markets andpublic finances,” Kasman said in a news For the third quarter, the committee forecastx inflation-adjusted gross domestic producrt will return to positive growth, picking up to a more than 3 percenr pace by the second half of 2010. Tom economics professor at , said the committee’ds forecasts are in line with others that economistsw haveput together.
He said most believe the recession will end either in the thire quarter or fourth quarter ofthis year, with a few projectinb it won’t be until the first quarter of 2010. the committee is projectintg an end tothe three-year downturn in the housing with housing starts rising later this year and home valuea moving up modestly in 2010. “Lower prices and low mortgag e rates have greatly improved the affordabilityof homes,” Kasman “A recovery in the housin sector will be an important contributor to economic However, credit will remain tight and bank economistsx said jobs will continue to be Unemployment is expected to peak at 10 percent nationally and remain at or above 9.
5 percent through next year. Budget deficits are expected to remain wellabove $1 trillion this year and next The 13-member committee forecasts the 10-year Treasury bond yielr will stay in the 3.75 percentf to 4.25 percent range throug next year because core inflation is forecastt to fall towards 1 percent. the committee is concerned about the rising trend in federal debt and the implications for inflatio riskbeyond 2010.
The committee cited consumer spending stabilizing in the firstt half of this allowing businesses to reducr costsand inventories, as well as reducing layoffd and investment spending cutbacks. In combination with the stimulus and an improvemenr in thefinancial markets, it is likely the economyh will expand in the seconcd half of the year. Bruces Kasman, committee chairman and chief economist forNew York-basec (NYSE: JPM), said the economy will returnj to growth, but not health.
“Growthu in the coming quarters is likel to gather momentum but will not prove sufficiently robust to undo much of the severe damage done to our laborf markets andpublic finances,” Kasman said in a news For the third quarter, the committee forecastx inflation-adjusted gross domestic producrt will return to positive growth, picking up to a more than 3 percenr pace by the second half of 2010. Tom economics professor at , said the committee’ds forecasts are in line with others that economistsw haveput together.
He said most believe the recession will end either in the thire quarter or fourth quarter ofthis year, with a few projectinb it won’t be until the first quarter of 2010. the committee is projectintg an end tothe three-year downturn in the housing with housing starts rising later this year and home valuea moving up modestly in 2010. “Lower prices and low mortgag e rates have greatly improved the affordabilityof homes,” Kasman “A recovery in the housin sector will be an important contributor to economic However, credit will remain tight and bank economistsx said jobs will continue to be Unemployment is expected to peak at 10 percent nationally and remain at or above 9.
5 percent through next year. Budget deficits are expected to remain wellabove $1 trillion this year and next The 13-member committee forecasts the 10-year Treasury bond yielr will stay in the 3.75 percentf to 4.25 percent range throug next year because core inflation is forecastt to fall towards 1 percent. the committee is concerned about the rising trend in federal debt and the implications for inflatio riskbeyond 2010.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
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Monday, September 13, 2010
Automaker bankruptcies may cause land pileup - Orlando Business Journal:
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It’s the probability of more land coming online inan already-saturated real estated market that has brokers most The reason: With each dealership averaging about 9 acres, an estimatecd 30,000 acres could be dumped on the markeyt nationwide over the next two years if the 3,430 dealers liquidate their assets, real estate sources said. dealership land currently listed rangesfrom $468,933 to $593,065 per “Debt will need to be addressed and mortgages paid off as part of the said attorney Steve Snively, a partneer in the firm’s Orlando office who is not involve d in any deals relatecd to the two automakers.
“As it all winda down, all those could have somethinh to do with issues of dealingv with paymentof creditors.” Auburn Hills, Mich.-basefd Chrysler, which filed for Chapterr 11 bankruptcy protection April 30, plans to trim seven Central Florid a dealerships and 789 nationwide by June 9. Detroit-basee GM, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy onJune 1, plans to cut its dealershipo ranks from 6,246 to 3,605 by October 2010, accordinyg to a document posted on its Web Although GM didn’t make publivc a list of the longtime Central Florida mainstays and are amon those slated to stop selling new Chevys, media reports said.
Roger Holle r III, vice president of the , said in a statementt that the company will continue tosell Chevrolets, issude warranties and provide service. “We’ved been here for more than 70 yeareand we’ll be here for anotherr 70 years,” he said in the Local real estate experts believer the family will find other uses for the two “Some of this is really trophy property,” said Bill director of industrial services for Collierse Arnold Commercial in Orlando, who also specializex in auto dealerships. “The Hollee people have a real eye forreal estate.
” The Holler-Classic groupo has another six Central Florida dealershipzs with the Audi, Hummer, Mazda and Hyundai brands, as well as two Hondsa dealerships. Some dealers alreadyg have plans in place tocontinue operating. For , a Chrysler dealer slated to stop sellinb new Jeep vehiclesthis month, will continu e pushing its Suzuki brand along with pre-owneds vehicles. General Manager Buddy Vickers — whose Jimmie Vickers, started the dealership in the 1970s said the family also will keep their servicedepartmenf active. “The most bitter part to this whole thin g isthat we’ve been a Jeep dealer for a long he said. “We’ve really been loyal to the brand.
” And Alan who owns Chevrolet dealerships in DeLandand St. Clourd not on the trim said he expects to go forward with plans to buy a thir d undisclosed Chevrolet dealership once all the bankruptchy falloutis over. In April, Starling sold a Chrysler dealership for $5.6 million to the Osceolaw County Sherriff’s Office. He had resigned his franchisew agreement with Chryslerin February, he said. “Gn has always said at least 50 percent of theit sales are made up from Chevrolet he said. “That’s probably the brand that will survive.” Starling said the future of his vacant Saturn dealershipp in Panama Cityis unknown.
GM wants to sell the “They haven’t been very responsive, but I think they know there’ws a problem,” he said. Starling said he has receivefd four calls from competing automakers interested in haviny him sign on for one of theie brands inthat space. The real estatd expected to come onlind may create other opportunitiesfor brokers. For example, Colliera formed , a national group that includes an Orlando operatiom to marketauto lots. CB Richardf Ellis created a national , and the Orlando office plana to name someone to headlocaol efforts.
Auto dealerships are typicallgy prime realestate sites, with great access, visibility, good signage rights and propertty well-suited to redevelopment, brokers said. “In the these tracts will be more Snively said. “It’s easier to redevelop it than if we had an existinvgshopping center.”
It’s the probability of more land coming online inan already-saturated real estated market that has brokers most The reason: With each dealership averaging about 9 acres, an estimatecd 30,000 acres could be dumped on the markeyt nationwide over the next two years if the 3,430 dealers liquidate their assets, real estate sources said. dealership land currently listed rangesfrom $468,933 to $593,065 per “Debt will need to be addressed and mortgages paid off as part of the said attorney Steve Snively, a partneer in the firm’s Orlando office who is not involve d in any deals relatecd to the two automakers.
“As it all winda down, all those could have somethinh to do with issues of dealingv with paymentof creditors.” Auburn Hills, Mich.-basefd Chrysler, which filed for Chapterr 11 bankruptcy protection April 30, plans to trim seven Central Florid a dealerships and 789 nationwide by June 9. Detroit-basee GM, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy onJune 1, plans to cut its dealershipo ranks from 6,246 to 3,605 by October 2010, accordinyg to a document posted on its Web Although GM didn’t make publivc a list of the longtime Central Florida mainstays and are amon those slated to stop selling new Chevys, media reports said.
Roger Holle r III, vice president of the , said in a statementt that the company will continue tosell Chevrolets, issude warranties and provide service. “We’ved been here for more than 70 yeareand we’ll be here for anotherr 70 years,” he said in the Local real estate experts believer the family will find other uses for the two “Some of this is really trophy property,” said Bill director of industrial services for Collierse Arnold Commercial in Orlando, who also specializex in auto dealerships. “The Hollee people have a real eye forreal estate.
” The Holler-Classic groupo has another six Central Florida dealershipzs with the Audi, Hummer, Mazda and Hyundai brands, as well as two Hondsa dealerships. Some dealers alreadyg have plans in place tocontinue operating. For , a Chrysler dealer slated to stop sellinb new Jeep vehiclesthis month, will continu e pushing its Suzuki brand along with pre-owneds vehicles. General Manager Buddy Vickers — whose Jimmie Vickers, started the dealership in the 1970s said the family also will keep their servicedepartmenf active. “The most bitter part to this whole thin g isthat we’ve been a Jeep dealer for a long he said. “We’ve really been loyal to the brand.
” And Alan who owns Chevrolet dealerships in DeLandand St. Clourd not on the trim said he expects to go forward with plans to buy a thir d undisclosed Chevrolet dealership once all the bankruptchy falloutis over. In April, Starling sold a Chrysler dealership for $5.6 million to the Osceolaw County Sherriff’s Office. He had resigned his franchisew agreement with Chryslerin February, he said. “Gn has always said at least 50 percent of theit sales are made up from Chevrolet he said. “That’s probably the brand that will survive.” Starling said the future of his vacant Saturn dealershipp in Panama Cityis unknown.
GM wants to sell the “They haven’t been very responsive, but I think they know there’ws a problem,” he said. Starling said he has receivefd four calls from competing automakers interested in haviny him sign on for one of theie brands inthat space. The real estatd expected to come onlind may create other opportunitiesfor brokers. For example, Colliera formed , a national group that includes an Orlando operatiom to marketauto lots. CB Richardf Ellis created a national , and the Orlando office plana to name someone to headlocaol efforts.
Auto dealerships are typicallgy prime realestate sites, with great access, visibility, good signage rights and propertty well-suited to redevelopment, brokers said. “In the these tracts will be more Snively said. “It’s easier to redevelop it than if we had an existinvgshopping center.”
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Consumers
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The Ohio Consumers’ Counsel has filed for a stay on the detaill in a rate increase PUCO approved this montnhfor Columbus-based American Electric Power Part of the PUCO order allows the companyy to pick up revenue it would have received had the rate increasew taken effect at the beginning of the AEP received roughly half of the 15 percent annualk electricity rate increase it sought for this year throughj 2011.
If the commission next week gives approval to tariffs AEP has filed sinc therate ruling, the increase the PUCO approvex for 2009 will be compressed into billa for the remaining months of this The consumers’ counsel opposed the retroactive rate but the request for a stay asks the PUCO to not put it into effecft until a determination is made abou the legality of the provision. Consumers’ counselk spokesman Ryan Lippe said the agency thinksw the retroactive increase violates Ohio lawand isn’t permitted in the sweepintg electricity deregulation plan Gov. Ted Strickland signed last year.
That pavedf the way for the rate increase AEP filed last The Appalachian Peoples Action Coalition joinedd theOhio Consumers’ Counsel in requesting the Shana Eiselstein, a spokeswoman for the PUCO, wouldn’t commen on the legal questions, stating only that the retroactive provision is an elemenft of the commission’s order. “If arguments are raised there is an opportunity for a rehearingf and the commission will have to considefr arguments as theycome up,” she AEP Ohio spokeswoman Terri Floraz said the retroactive increase allows the PUCO to hold up to its end of the Rendering a decision on the rate request 150 days aftee AEP submitted its proposal.
Had the commissiojn met the deadline, new ratez would have been in place for the beginnint ofthe year. But the PUCO foundd itself inundated with similar plans from other utilities and neededc more than two additional months past the deadlinew to make a final decisionon AEP’s rate “We were the last in a serieds of complicated rate plans and we recogniz e that due process takes time,” Flora “But by law, it states that we wouldd have the order in 150 days.
” Lippe said the consumers’ counsell intends to seek a rehearing on the rate
The Ohio Consumers’ Counsel has filed for a stay on the detaill in a rate increase PUCO approved this montnhfor Columbus-based American Electric Power Part of the PUCO order allows the companyy to pick up revenue it would have received had the rate increasew taken effect at the beginning of the AEP received roughly half of the 15 percent annualk electricity rate increase it sought for this year throughj 2011.
If the commission next week gives approval to tariffs AEP has filed sinc therate ruling, the increase the PUCO approvex for 2009 will be compressed into billa for the remaining months of this The consumers’ counsel opposed the retroactive rate but the request for a stay asks the PUCO to not put it into effecft until a determination is made abou the legality of the provision. Consumers’ counselk spokesman Ryan Lippe said the agency thinksw the retroactive increase violates Ohio lawand isn’t permitted in the sweepintg electricity deregulation plan Gov. Ted Strickland signed last year.
That pavedf the way for the rate increase AEP filed last The Appalachian Peoples Action Coalition joinedd theOhio Consumers’ Counsel in requesting the Shana Eiselstein, a spokeswoman for the PUCO, wouldn’t commen on the legal questions, stating only that the retroactive provision is an elemenft of the commission’s order. “If arguments are raised there is an opportunity for a rehearingf and the commission will have to considefr arguments as theycome up,” she AEP Ohio spokeswoman Terri Floraz said the retroactive increase allows the PUCO to hold up to its end of the Rendering a decision on the rate request 150 days aftee AEP submitted its proposal.
Had the commissiojn met the deadline, new ratez would have been in place for the beginnint ofthe year. But the PUCO foundd itself inundated with similar plans from other utilities and neededc more than two additional months past the deadlinew to make a final decisionon AEP’s rate “We were the last in a serieds of complicated rate plans and we recogniz e that due process takes time,” Flora “But by law, it states that we wouldd have the order in 150 days.
” Lippe said the consumers’ counsell intends to seek a rehearing on the rate
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