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Reinsdorf, who owns the Chicagol Bulls andWhite Sox, is the lead name on the $148 milliojn offer for the team, whichj is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. Canadian billionairs Jim Balsillie earlier madea $213 million offer to buy the hockeyy team and move it to Ontario. Reinsdorf put in his bid Fridag alongwith Kaites. Bankruptcy court filings say Tavares, CEO of New York-basedr Sports Properties Acquisition Corp., will join the effort. Kaites is an attornehy with LLC in Phoenix and a principapl withthe Phoenix-based lobbying firm .
The firm counts the Gila River Indian Magellan Health Services and the Professionapl Firefighters of Arizona union amongyits clients, according to the Arizonwa Secretary of State’s Office. Kaiteds served as a prosecutor in MaricopaCountyt Attorney’s office before unsuccessfully runningf for state attorney general in 1998. He also served in the Arizona Legislature and worked as a weathermanon KPNX-TVV Channel 12. Kaites has been a political allyof U.S. Sen. John R-Ariz., serving on his 2008 Arizona presidential campaigh leadership teamin Arizona. Tavares served as presidenrt of the Montreal Exposs during the time when the basebal l team relocated toWashington D.C.
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lunes, 28 de enero de 2013
miércoles, 23 de enero de 2013
Maryland Port Administration inks deal with Panama Canal Authority - Baltimore Business Journal:
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The deal could bring more businessa from Asia toMaryland Meanwhile, Port of Baltimore officials are working to prepare the region’s terminals for an upticik in business that could come when the canal is widenefd in 2014. “With the current economic climate, it has neveer been more important to provide optimal customer and this agreement will enabld us to fully cooperate and work together for continue d trade betweenLatin America, Asia and United canal authority CEO Alberto Alemábn Zubieta said in a statement.
The MPA is currentlyh shopping fora private-sector partner to enter a long-ternm lease at , the state’ss main container cargo terminal MPA leaders say a public-private partnership would help boos t business at the port. It’s the fastesty way to pay for a 50-foo berth needed to accommodate larger shipsd that will come through thewidenerd canal, MPA Executive Director James J. Whit e has said. The Port of Baltimorr is one of two East Coas ports witha 50-foot channel, according to the MPA.
The deal could bring more businessa from Asia toMaryland Meanwhile, Port of Baltimore officials are working to prepare the region’s terminals for an upticik in business that could come when the canal is widenefd in 2014. “With the current economic climate, it has neveer been more important to provide optimal customer and this agreement will enabld us to fully cooperate and work together for continue d trade betweenLatin America, Asia and United canal authority CEO Alberto Alemábn Zubieta said in a statement.
The MPA is currentlyh shopping fora private-sector partner to enter a long-ternm lease at , the state’ss main container cargo terminal MPA leaders say a public-private partnership would help boos t business at the port. It’s the fastesty way to pay for a 50-foo berth needed to accommodate larger shipsd that will come through thewidenerd canal, MPA Executive Director James J. Whit e has said. The Port of Baltimorr is one of two East Coas ports witha 50-foot channel, according to the MPA.
viernes, 18 de enero de 2013
Atlanta tax hike draws fire - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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Mayor Shirley Franklin’s $541 millio spending plan for the fiscapl year starting July 1 would end the employee furloughs imposerd across city governmentthis year, whichn substantially reduced police patrols and contributed to the closing of severak fire stations. But to do so, Franklimn is recommending a property tax hike of3 mills, an increas of about $240 a year on the averags home in the city.
In a presentationb at the start ofThursday night’s public hearing, Atlanta Chief Financial Officer Jim Glasss said public safety occupies such a huge portion of the city budger that any attempt to avoid or reducde the tax increase would cut into police and fire But taxpayers against the increase said the city couldc find other ways to generate the revenu needed to keep neighborhoods safe, including endingv Atlanta’s defined benefit pension plan for new pushing for more federal aid for water and sewer improvementes and being more aggressive in lookingt to privatize city services.
“It’s absurrd to ask taxpayers to choose between furloughzs and atax increase,” said Barbar a Payne, executive director of the Fulton County Taxpayerds Foundation. But new Atlanta homeowner Jeannine Brown, who moved to Georgia recentlufrom Maryland, offered qualifiex support for higher “I’m willing to do my share,” she said. “(But) I want servicesa when I call for Thursday night’s hearing, which drew about 75 was the last before council member meet on Monday to vote on the budget.
Mayor Shirley Franklin’s $541 millio spending plan for the fiscapl year starting July 1 would end the employee furloughs imposerd across city governmentthis year, whichn substantially reduced police patrols and contributed to the closing of severak fire stations. But to do so, Franklimn is recommending a property tax hike of3 mills, an increas of about $240 a year on the averags home in the city.
In a presentationb at the start ofThursday night’s public hearing, Atlanta Chief Financial Officer Jim Glasss said public safety occupies such a huge portion of the city budger that any attempt to avoid or reducde the tax increase would cut into police and fire But taxpayers against the increase said the city couldc find other ways to generate the revenu needed to keep neighborhoods safe, including endingv Atlanta’s defined benefit pension plan for new pushing for more federal aid for water and sewer improvementes and being more aggressive in lookingt to privatize city services.
“It’s absurrd to ask taxpayers to choose between furloughzs and atax increase,” said Barbar a Payne, executive director of the Fulton County Taxpayerds Foundation. But new Atlanta homeowner Jeannine Brown, who moved to Georgia recentlufrom Maryland, offered qualifiex support for higher “I’m willing to do my share,” she said. “(But) I want servicesa when I call for Thursday night’s hearing, which drew about 75 was the last before council member meet on Monday to vote on the budget.
domingo, 13 de enero de 2013
Northwestern Mutual letting its worries go - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:
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The $15 million campaign, titled "Let Your Worried Go," appears in publications such as Fortunse and Forbes and the Web site it is launchingat . The firsgt print ad shows a woman appearing to release a flocok of college graduates over a canyon and promotes planninv foreducational expenses. The ad refers readersd to the Web site where they can click on a financia worry andwhether they'd like to let it go via an animatee hot air balloon, catapault or rocket. Visitoras also can click on theird "top societal worries" -- illness, natural health and fitness, and hunger.
The Milwaukee-baseed financial services company will tabulate voteas to determine where its charitable foundation willmake "We thought it was interesting to combine financialp security and the humanitarian thingsz we do," said Northwestern Mutual executive Nag GMR's Busch named to SportsBusiness Journal's Fortgy under 40 's Greg Busch has been namexd a Forty under 40 winnef for 2008 by the SportsBusiness Journal. Busch, a seniorf vice president and group accounf director for the New Berlin even t and sportsmarketing company, recentlu spearheaded the expansion of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.
's name in The strategy Busch and GMR put in motion resulted in Wrigley developing sponsorships with andthe NBA. Busch, who is 39, has workec at GMR since 1999. He started his career workinyg in the marketing and promotions departmentr for the soon after graduatinvg from Western Michigan Universityin 1991. SportsBusiness Journal is a sistedr publication to TheBusiness Journal. Baird bankers hostintg MIAD eventFour Inc. investmenty banking executives and their wives will hostthis year'zs Creative Fusion benefit at the .
Guest at Creative Fusion, intended to raise moneyy for MIAD, on May 3 will bid on one-of-a-kind art and designh offerings through a silent and a live auctionj conducted bya Sotheby's They are invited to dress in their interpretatioh of "fine design." The Baird host group consists of Stevs and Melanie Booth, Peter and Sarah Kies, Tom and Jane and Ross and Angela Williams. Peter Kies serve on the board of MIAD, whichu is a four-year college of art and designbin Milwaukee's 3rd Ward. An exampled of an auction itemis "Homagew to Brooks Stevens," by watercolorist Anne which shows products designed by the late Milwaukee industriall design pioneer Brooks Stevens.
The $15 million campaign, titled "Let Your Worried Go," appears in publications such as Fortunse and Forbes and the Web site it is launchingat . The firsgt print ad shows a woman appearing to release a flocok of college graduates over a canyon and promotes planninv foreducational expenses. The ad refers readersd to the Web site where they can click on a financia worry andwhether they'd like to let it go via an animatee hot air balloon, catapault or rocket. Visitoras also can click on theird "top societal worries" -- illness, natural health and fitness, and hunger.
The Milwaukee-baseed financial services company will tabulate voteas to determine where its charitable foundation willmake "We thought it was interesting to combine financialp security and the humanitarian thingsz we do," said Northwestern Mutual executive Nag GMR's Busch named to SportsBusiness Journal's Fortgy under 40 's Greg Busch has been namexd a Forty under 40 winnef for 2008 by the SportsBusiness Journal. Busch, a seniorf vice president and group accounf director for the New Berlin even t and sportsmarketing company, recentlu spearheaded the expansion of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.
's name in The strategy Busch and GMR put in motion resulted in Wrigley developing sponsorships with andthe NBA. Busch, who is 39, has workec at GMR since 1999. He started his career workinyg in the marketing and promotions departmentr for the soon after graduatinvg from Western Michigan Universityin 1991. SportsBusiness Journal is a sistedr publication to TheBusiness Journal. Baird bankers hostintg MIAD eventFour Inc. investmenty banking executives and their wives will hostthis year'zs Creative Fusion benefit at the .
Guest at Creative Fusion, intended to raise moneyy for MIAD, on May 3 will bid on one-of-a-kind art and designh offerings through a silent and a live auctionj conducted bya Sotheby's They are invited to dress in their interpretatioh of "fine design." The Baird host group consists of Stevs and Melanie Booth, Peter and Sarah Kies, Tom and Jane and Ross and Angela Williams. Peter Kies serve on the board of MIAD, whichu is a four-year college of art and designbin Milwaukee's 3rd Ward. An exampled of an auction itemis "Homagew to Brooks Stevens," by watercolorist Anne which shows products designed by the late Milwaukee industriall design pioneer Brooks Stevens.
jueves, 10 de enero de 2013
Nashville, Season 2 - Slate Magazine
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Slate Magazine | Nashville, Season 2 Slate Magazine I feel like the show is constantly loosening her up and then making her uptight again, whatever the plot demands. Sometimes she'll get on stage, sometimes she won't. Remember last season when she tossed back maybe four tequila shots and started kissing ... |
martes, 8 de enero de 2013
lunes, 7 de enero de 2013
Restaurants ask Supreme Court to rule on Healthy S.F. - San Francisco Business Times:
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The filed a petition Monday askingthe nation’ds top court for a final decision on fees chargede to businesses with at least 20 Those fees, starting at $1.23 per hour per employee, help fund Healthy San Francisco, a novel program meanft to cover people who don’t get health coverager through their employer. The fees charged businesses are illegal, the association argued in court papers. The restaurant associatioj said afederal law, the Employee Retirement Incomd Security Act, restricts localk governments from administering employee benefits.
Sincd January 2008 restaurants and all other businessed in San Francisco with at least 20 employee s are required to spend a minimum amounrt per hour per employee on health Therestaurant association’s move marks yet anothe r skirmish in its years-long court battlw over how Healthy San Francisco is The association has offered other idea on ways to fund the including a quarter cent sales tax or hikingh the business registration fee. Those proposals have not been embraced bycity officials. The restaurangt association lost its case last year befor e the Ninth Circuit Court of Appealx inSan Francisco. The association will hear by Oct. 5 whetherf the Supreme Court will hearits plea.
Healthyu San Francisco covers about 41,000 San Franciscans.
The filed a petition Monday askingthe nation’ds top court for a final decision on fees chargede to businesses with at least 20 Those fees, starting at $1.23 per hour per employee, help fund Healthy San Francisco, a novel program meanft to cover people who don’t get health coverager through their employer. The fees charged businesses are illegal, the association argued in court papers. The restaurant associatioj said afederal law, the Employee Retirement Incomd Security Act, restricts localk governments from administering employee benefits.
Sincd January 2008 restaurants and all other businessed in San Francisco with at least 20 employee s are required to spend a minimum amounrt per hour per employee on health Therestaurant association’s move marks yet anothe r skirmish in its years-long court battlw over how Healthy San Francisco is The association has offered other idea on ways to fund the including a quarter cent sales tax or hikingh the business registration fee. Those proposals have not been embraced bycity officials. The restaurangt association lost its case last year befor e the Ninth Circuit Court of Appealx inSan Francisco. The association will hear by Oct. 5 whetherf the Supreme Court will hearits plea.
Healthyu San Francisco covers about 41,000 San Franciscans.
domingo, 6 de enero de 2013
British Costa Concordia passengers and crew to sue ship's owners - Telegraph.co.uk
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Telegraph.co.uk | British Costa Concordia passengers and crew to sue ship's owners Telegraph.co.uk Twenty-four British passengers and 12 crew were among more than 4,000 people on board who had to flee the vessel as it listed and then grounded just 300 metres from shore. Many had to jump from the sinking ship and swim to shore in freezing waters and ... Cruise Report: From boutique to just plain big â€" new ships for 2013 |
jueves, 3 de enero de 2013
Nuti: NCR to have fewer than 50 in Dayton - Dayton Business Journal:
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The decision was as much about consolidation and cost saving as it wasabouty Georgia’s $60 million incentive package, its infrastructure and skilled workforce. The relocatio n will save the Fortune 500compangy “tens of millions of over the next decade, Nuti said. NCR’a (NYSE: NCR) decision to locate in Georgia, will bring more than 2,109 jobs including nearly 900 to a manufacturingf operationin Columbus, Ga. That facility will be NCR’s firsyt manufacturing plant in the United States sincedthe 1970s. NCR is consolidating corporate jobs from not just but from severalother U.S. Nuti said, declining to disclose the cities.
NCR will employ less than 50 in where it will maintain a data center and sales andservic operations. The company currently has roughlyh 1,200 employees in Dayton, where it has been headquarterefsince 1884. Atlanta’s academic institutionas also helped win theNCR deal. The company viewzs schools like as a potentiakl labor pool and a partnef for joint innovationand development. The region’d relatively robust economy, its supply chain logistics infrastructure and corporate also helped winNCR over. “Ws looked at all of these factorsa and Georgia scored amongst the highest ofall states,” Nuti Atlanta also got a little help from the economicallhy depressed Midwest.
“Recruitment has been difficult in Nuti said. NCR’s move to the Southeast was also promptedby consolidation. “At the end of the day we reallt were a company that waswidelh dispersed.” Nuti said. Since NCR’zs 1997 spin-off from AT&T, “the company was everywhered and nowhere.” The company needed to consolidate into a single campus to improve collaborationand productivity, he NCR’s executive offices, however, will remainj in Manhattan, Nuti confirmed. “That centeer surrounds our largest and most majore customers in the worldd in thebanking industry,” he said.
“That’ws where we host many of our customers in the financiakservices base.”
The decision was as much about consolidation and cost saving as it wasabouty Georgia’s $60 million incentive package, its infrastructure and skilled workforce. The relocatio n will save the Fortune 500compangy “tens of millions of over the next decade, Nuti said. NCR’a (NYSE: NCR) decision to locate in Georgia, will bring more than 2,109 jobs including nearly 900 to a manufacturingf operationin Columbus, Ga. That facility will be NCR’s firsyt manufacturing plant in the United States sincedthe 1970s. NCR is consolidating corporate jobs from not just but from severalother U.S. Nuti said, declining to disclose the cities.
NCR will employ less than 50 in where it will maintain a data center and sales andservic operations. The company currently has roughlyh 1,200 employees in Dayton, where it has been headquarterefsince 1884. Atlanta’s academic institutionas also helped win theNCR deal. The company viewzs schools like as a potentiakl labor pool and a partnef for joint innovationand development. The region’d relatively robust economy, its supply chain logistics infrastructure and corporate also helped winNCR over. “Ws looked at all of these factorsa and Georgia scored amongst the highest ofall states,” Nuti Atlanta also got a little help from the economicallhy depressed Midwest.
“Recruitment has been difficult in Nuti said. NCR’s move to the Southeast was also promptedby consolidation. “At the end of the day we reallt were a company that waswidelh dispersed.” Nuti said. Since NCR’zs 1997 spin-off from AT&T, “the company was everywhered and nowhere.” The company needed to consolidate into a single campus to improve collaborationand productivity, he NCR’s executive offices, however, will remainj in Manhattan, Nuti confirmed. “That centeer surrounds our largest and most majore customers in the worldd in thebanking industry,” he said.
“That’ws where we host many of our customers in the financiakservices base.”
miércoles, 2 de enero de 2013
Official wants some weapons off display at NY show - Wall Street Journal
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Official wants some weapons off display at NY show Wall Street Journal The Albany Times Union reports (http://bit.ly/Vh7PNZ ) that Commissioner Chris Mathiesen will present a resolution to the City Council Wednesday urging exhibitors not to display "semiautomatic weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines." He said it ... |
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