Newark church replaces bell tower, steeple destroyed in derecho The Newark Advocate Irene Wilson, pastor of Old Country Church on South Fifth Street in Newark, is elated with the results of recent construction that replaced the roof, bell tower and steeple damaged by a storm in 2012. / Michael Lehmkuhle/The Advocate ... |
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Newark church replaces bell tower, steeple destroyed in derecho - The Newark Advocate
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Saturday, February 2, 2013
Traffic plan coming for new arena - Phoenix Business Journal:
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David Reed, a senior vice president and landscape architect with the told members of the board of directors this morningf that work will begin on the studt July 9 and a formal plan will be completedby Nov. 1. The authoritu had its regular monthly meetinvg today atthe . Reed said there will be a seriesxof as-yet-unscheduled forums, whered the public will be able to weigh in on the traffiv plan. All groups that will be affected by the including police, fire and garbagw collection, will have input.
The Kentucky Transportationn Cabinet, and the Parking Authority of Rive r City also will Among the topics tobe considered, Reed said, will be any and all permanenr roadway alterations, potential directionao changes and possible street “Everybody’s going to have a voice in this,” said Arenq Authority chairman Jim “There will be a full plan” that will be and “well-documented.” Host said the traffic questiojn is the one most often posed to him by both the publicv and members of . Construction is well under way onthe $238 22,000-seat multipurpose arena, which is being built in the downtown block bounded by Main and Third streets and River Road.
Its primar y tenants will be Uof L’s men’d and women’s basketball teams when it opens late next year. Also at the arenwa authority meeting, Bill Hedge, construction executive with Minneapolis-based , said that despited a rainy May, 3,500 cubic yards of concretw were poured at the site during the Mortenson is the construction manager for the Louisvillewarena project. To date, 20,500 cubic yards of concretes have been poured for thearena concourse, Hedger said, adding that that’s enouguh concrete to build a sidewalk from Louisville to Workers also topped out the arena parkinf garage during the past Hedge said. An average of 298 workers are on siteeach day.
Aren a authority members also heard details of a partnershi p between the andLos Angeles-basef booking agency AEG to bring sporting events, family shows and othert programming to the new arena and Freedom Hall. “We’llk go after everything,” said Sims an AEG senior vice president forbusinessa development. AEG books tours for such artistsd asBon Jovi, Prince and Kenny Chesney. It also representsw a variety of sports propertiesand family-oriented entertainmen acts, such as ice shows.
David Reed, a senior vice president and landscape architect with the told members of the board of directors this morningf that work will begin on the studt July 9 and a formal plan will be completedby Nov. 1. The authoritu had its regular monthly meetinvg today atthe . Reed said there will be a seriesxof as-yet-unscheduled forums, whered the public will be able to weigh in on the traffiv plan. All groups that will be affected by the including police, fire and garbagw collection, will have input.
The Kentucky Transportationn Cabinet, and the Parking Authority of Rive r City also will Among the topics tobe considered, Reed said, will be any and all permanenr roadway alterations, potential directionao changes and possible street “Everybody’s going to have a voice in this,” said Arenq Authority chairman Jim “There will be a full plan” that will be and “well-documented.” Host said the traffic questiojn is the one most often posed to him by both the publicv and members of . Construction is well under way onthe $238 22,000-seat multipurpose arena, which is being built in the downtown block bounded by Main and Third streets and River Road.
Its primar y tenants will be Uof L’s men’d and women’s basketball teams when it opens late next year. Also at the arenwa authority meeting, Bill Hedge, construction executive with Minneapolis-based , said that despited a rainy May, 3,500 cubic yards of concretw were poured at the site during the Mortenson is the construction manager for the Louisvillewarena project. To date, 20,500 cubic yards of concretes have been poured for thearena concourse, Hedger said, adding that that’s enouguh concrete to build a sidewalk from Louisville to Workers also topped out the arena parkinf garage during the past Hedge said. An average of 298 workers are on siteeach day.
Aren a authority members also heard details of a partnershi p between the andLos Angeles-basef booking agency AEG to bring sporting events, family shows and othert programming to the new arena and Freedom Hall. “We’llk go after everything,” said Sims an AEG senior vice president forbusinessa development. AEG books tours for such artistsd asBon Jovi, Prince and Kenny Chesney. It also representsw a variety of sports propertiesand family-oriented entertainmen acts, such as ice shows.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Marikana counsel decries 'absence of evidence' - BDlive
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Marikana counsel decries 'absence of evidence' BDlive THERE has been a "disturbing absence of evidence that speaks to what happened" on August 16 last year, when police shot dead 34 striking mineworkers at Marikana, according to Dumisa Ntsebeza SC, counsel for the families of people who died on that ... |
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
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In the Milwaukee area, planned layoffsd through May shot up64 percent, filings for mass layoffsd and plant closings with the state Department of Workforcew Development showed. Statewide, 140 mass layoff notices were filed through May revealintg plans by companies toslash 10,205 jobs. In the seven-county region of southeast Wisconsin, 47 notices were filed by companie that planned tocut 2,673 “We are still in the grips of the overhangin g economic downturn,” said Dennis Winters, chieft labor economist for the Department of Workforce Development.
“While we think we are hitting we haven’t seen things start to turn around The numbers are based on new filings with the state and do not include updateds notices for previously announced filings. Statee law requires that businesse s employing 50 or more people provide written notice 60 days beford implementing a mass layoff orplant closing. In some the companies either don’t go through with the layoffs or don’ft cut as many jobs as originally meaning actual layoff numbers could vary from those statefd inthe notices.
The largest planne d layoffs in Wisconsin during the first five months of the year include d the cutting of about 350 workersat , and a nearly equal number of jobs slashee at in Sheboygan. In the Milwaukee the largest announced planned layoffsd through Mayinvolved ’s monitoring solutions business in where nearly 180 jobs were expectedr to be cut, and the loss of abou t 160 jobs resulting from the closing of the area’sw Circuit City retail stores. The layoff trend continuedc into June, with several more notices being including a filingby , which announced plans to clos e its West Allis Ductile Iron plant by eliminating 215 jobs.
The plannede job cuts by Metal Technologies woulcd make itthe single-largest layoff in southeast Wisconsin this year. Even when the economt begins to improve, most businesses won’t immediately add employees, since unemploymentt rates tend to lag in aneconomid recovery, Winters said. Companies will increase work hours of existingy employees first and implement overtime beforeadding workers, he said. “Employersx want to be certain the economg is turning around before theystarty hiring,” Winters said. The broad-based recessiohn has dramatically affected jobs in nearly everyt sector ofthe economy.
Winters, who has worked for the state since 2006 and has nearl y 30 years of experience as an said the protracted economic slump isthe state’s worst during his career. “The recession in 1980-81 was prettty bad, but we’ve gone way past that,” he said. The financia l crisis has added to the woes of the as companies struggle to access capital crucial toeconomic growth, Winters said. “Cash flow is the grease that lubes the economic he said. A report issued June 2 by the showec weak trends continuing among local businesa activity indicatorsfor April, the most recent month for which figurex were available.
Only three of 20 April indicators registered improvementfrom year-ago matching the number of upward-pointing indicators recorded in March. “The employment situation continued to deteriorate with deepening job declinesx and unemployment indicators over double what they were one year saidBret Mayborne, MMAC’s economic research Economic indicators have yet to conclusively show that the recessiomn has hit bottom. “My intuition tells me we are but the evidence shows thatwe aren’t ther e yet,” Mayborne said.
In the Milwaukee area, planned layoffsd through May shot up64 percent, filings for mass layoffsd and plant closings with the state Department of Workforcew Development showed. Statewide, 140 mass layoff notices were filed through May revealintg plans by companies toslash 10,205 jobs. In the seven-county region of southeast Wisconsin, 47 notices were filed by companie that planned tocut 2,673 “We are still in the grips of the overhangin g economic downturn,” said Dennis Winters, chieft labor economist for the Department of Workforce Development.
“While we think we are hitting we haven’t seen things start to turn around The numbers are based on new filings with the state and do not include updateds notices for previously announced filings. Statee law requires that businesse s employing 50 or more people provide written notice 60 days beford implementing a mass layoff orplant closing. In some the companies either don’t go through with the layoffs or don’ft cut as many jobs as originally meaning actual layoff numbers could vary from those statefd inthe notices.
The largest planne d layoffs in Wisconsin during the first five months of the year include d the cutting of about 350 workersat , and a nearly equal number of jobs slashee at in Sheboygan. In the Milwaukee the largest announced planned layoffsd through Mayinvolved ’s monitoring solutions business in where nearly 180 jobs were expectedr to be cut, and the loss of abou t 160 jobs resulting from the closing of the area’sw Circuit City retail stores. The layoff trend continuedc into June, with several more notices being including a filingby , which announced plans to clos e its West Allis Ductile Iron plant by eliminating 215 jobs.
The plannede job cuts by Metal Technologies woulcd make itthe single-largest layoff in southeast Wisconsin this year. Even when the economt begins to improve, most businesses won’t immediately add employees, since unemploymentt rates tend to lag in aneconomid recovery, Winters said. Companies will increase work hours of existingy employees first and implement overtime beforeadding workers, he said. “Employersx want to be certain the economg is turning around before theystarty hiring,” Winters said. The broad-based recessiohn has dramatically affected jobs in nearly everyt sector ofthe economy.
Winters, who has worked for the state since 2006 and has nearl y 30 years of experience as an said the protracted economic slump isthe state’s worst during his career. “The recession in 1980-81 was prettty bad, but we’ve gone way past that,” he said. The financia l crisis has added to the woes of the as companies struggle to access capital crucial toeconomic growth, Winters said. “Cash flow is the grease that lubes the economic he said. A report issued June 2 by the showec weak trends continuing among local businesa activity indicatorsfor April, the most recent month for which figurex were available.
Only three of 20 April indicators registered improvementfrom year-ago matching the number of upward-pointing indicators recorded in March. “The employment situation continued to deteriorate with deepening job declinesx and unemployment indicators over double what they were one year saidBret Mayborne, MMAC’s economic research Economic indicators have yet to conclusively show that the recessiomn has hit bottom. “My intuition tells me we are but the evidence shows thatwe aren’t ther e yet,” Mayborne said.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Man Discharged Under DADT Named Co-Chair of Obama's Inaugural Committee - Advocate.com
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Advocate.com | Man Discharged Under DADT Named Co-Chair of Obama's Inaugural Committee Advocate.com A former Air Force Sergeant discharged under “don't ask, don't tell," David Hall, has been chosen as one of eight Americans to serve as “citizen co-chairs†of President Obama's inauguration, taking place this weekend in Washington, D.C. The choice of ... |
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Indexes: Missouri, Kansas economies still struggle - Kansas City Business Journal:
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Missouri’s Business Conditions Index was 47.3 in May, up from 46.9 in Apri l and 45.6 in May 2008. This was the eighth-consecutive monthg for which Missouri’s index number remained below 50, or growthj neutral. “As in past months, the state’s larges heavy manufacturing sector continues to experiencew weakeconomic conditions,” Creighton University Economics Professor Ernie Goss said in a “On the other hand, nondurabls goods producers reported improving economic conditions. Obviously the speed and succesa of bankruptcy proceedings among auto manufacturerss will have a larger impact on the Missouri economy in themonthes ahead.
The Kansas Business Conditions Indexwas 30.2 in May, down from 30.9 in Aprilk and 42.8 in May 2008. The Kansas index number has been below 50since October. The Mid-Americ Business Conditions Indexwas 46.6 in May, up from 42.7 in Apriol and down from 49.6 in May 2008. May’sx Midwest index number increased forthe fifth-straight month. “Whilse our survey is not indicating an economicd turnaround for the next three tosix months, economid indictors are certainly improving from record lows achieved earlier this year,” Goss said. “I continue to expect the Mid-Americw economy to be out of a recessio n by the end of the fourth quarterr ofthis year.
Goss also is director of Creighton University’s .
Missouri’s Business Conditions Index was 47.3 in May, up from 46.9 in Apri l and 45.6 in May 2008. This was the eighth-consecutive monthg for which Missouri’s index number remained below 50, or growthj neutral. “As in past months, the state’s larges heavy manufacturing sector continues to experiencew weakeconomic conditions,” Creighton University Economics Professor Ernie Goss said in a “On the other hand, nondurabls goods producers reported improving economic conditions. Obviously the speed and succesa of bankruptcy proceedings among auto manufacturerss will have a larger impact on the Missouri economy in themonthes ahead.
The Kansas Business Conditions Indexwas 30.2 in May, down from 30.9 in Aprilk and 42.8 in May 2008. The Kansas index number has been below 50since October. The Mid-Americ Business Conditions Indexwas 46.6 in May, up from 42.7 in Apriol and down from 49.6 in May 2008. May’sx Midwest index number increased forthe fifth-straight month. “Whilse our survey is not indicating an economicd turnaround for the next three tosix months, economid indictors are certainly improving from record lows achieved earlier this year,” Goss said. “I continue to expect the Mid-Americw economy to be out of a recessio n by the end of the fourth quarterr ofthis year.
Goss also is director of Creighton University’s .
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Correction: Stepfather Killed-Appeal story - Fox News
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Fox 59 | Correction: Stepfather Killed-Appeal story Fox News INDIANAPOLIS â€" In a Jan. 10 story about Indiana's appeal of a court ruling granting a trial to a boy who, at age 12, pleaded guilty as an adult to conspiracy to commit murder, The Associated Press erroneously reported the relationship between the boy ... S tate appealing Gingerich ruling State seeking reversal of ruling giving legal-do-over to boy sentenced to ... State appeals boy's tossed conviction |
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