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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
RTD to get $18.6M from stimulus for Union Station project - Philadelphia Business Journal:
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million in federal stimulus funds for work at DenvefrUnion Station, the announced Wednesday. The grant will help pay for desigm and construction at the historictrain station, whichg is to be converted into a terminal for several differenf transportation modes. RTD is carrying out the transit portiohn of the overall UniohStation redevelopment. The station will be a hub for the regionaktransit agency’s planned “FasTracks” rail transit It will also be used by many RTD The $18.6 million come from a pool of $8.4 billion for transit capitalk improvements authorized under the America n Recovery and Reinvestment Act of signed into law in Denvef by President Barack Obama on Feb.
17. “Buy reinvesting in our nation’s transit infrastructure, we are making our communitiexsmore livable, invigorating the local economy, and putting Americw back to work,” U.S. Transportationm Secretary Ray LaHood said Wednesdagy ina statement. The totalp cost of redeveloping union station for transit is expected to cost about $478 million. RTD plans to pay about $208 million, with the balances coming from federal money and othedlocal sources, Roger Sherman, chief operatiny officer at Denver lobbying firm CRL Associatesa Inc. and spokesman for the Denverd Union StationProject Authority, said in May.
RTD separatelyg is seeking stimulus funds for a variety ofothefr projects, including $17.1 million to purchasee new fareboxes for the transit system’s bus fleet.
million in federal stimulus funds for work at DenvefrUnion Station, the announced Wednesday. The grant will help pay for desigm and construction at the historictrain station, whichg is to be converted into a terminal for several differenf transportation modes. RTD is carrying out the transit portiohn of the overall UniohStation redevelopment. The station will be a hub for the regionaktransit agency’s planned “FasTracks” rail transit It will also be used by many RTD The $18.6 million come from a pool of $8.4 billion for transit capitalk improvements authorized under the America n Recovery and Reinvestment Act of signed into law in Denvef by President Barack Obama on Feb.
17. “Buy reinvesting in our nation’s transit infrastructure, we are making our communitiexsmore livable, invigorating the local economy, and putting Americw back to work,” U.S. Transportationm Secretary Ray LaHood said Wednesdagy ina statement. The totalp cost of redeveloping union station for transit is expected to cost about $478 million. RTD plans to pay about $208 million, with the balances coming from federal money and othedlocal sources, Roger Sherman, chief operatiny officer at Denver lobbying firm CRL Associatesa Inc. and spokesman for the Denverd Union StationProject Authority, said in May.
RTD separatelyg is seeking stimulus funds for a variety ofothefr projects, including $17.1 million to purchasee new fareboxes for the transit system’s bus fleet.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Agent Orange cleanup to start at former US base in Vietnam - AFP
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France24 | Agent Orange cleanup to start at former US base in Vietnam AFP HANOI รข€" Vietnam and the United States aim to start cleaning up contamination from Agent Orange at a former wartime US base in the middle of next year, ... CBS5 Reporter Thuy Vu Takes a Look at Impact of Agent Orange in Vietnam |
Monday, December 27, 2010
Norwich firm gets $25000 from state for product development - Norwich Bulletin
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Norwich firm gets $25000 from state for product development Norwich Bulletin The award is aimed at boosting product development and increasing employment. By JAMES MOSHER A Norwich company was among 10 statewide to get a government ... Southington sm » |
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Florida Chamber bolsters local political leadership - Tampa Bay Business Journal:
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Eric Brown, chief executive officef of in Tampa has been selecte d as the first chairmab ofthe . The CCE, or committee of continuoud existence, is one component of the chamber'x efforts and a big part of its political goalws in terms of identifying andelecting pro-business candidates, said Doug vice president of grassroots advocacyh and PAC development, Florida Chamber. A CCE is similard to a politicalaction committee, but is membershipo oriented and has dues and a board. It is more long term than a PAC, Wheeleer said.
This new regional CCE was formede as part of theFlorida Chamber's statewide regional effortsz to engage local members in the legislative and political processx by helping to identify and elect pro-business, pro-jobs candidatesa to state office. "It's formalizing of some of our members in that Wheeler said. The group will unify Floridwa Chamber businesses in eleven counties stretchinh from Hernando southward to Sarasota andfrom Pasco/Pinellas east to a release said. Its goal is to brinvg local businesses and leaders togethee and make the West Central Florida Chamber Alliance a stron g political force inthe area.
"The bandingf together of area business leaders to form this entity will fill a huge void for many businesses inthe area," said Brown in a release. "Wed will be able to influence state level politics at the local leveol andelect pro-business candidates much more effectively as a group than we ever could have individually."
Eric Brown, chief executive officef of in Tampa has been selecte d as the first chairmab ofthe . The CCE, or committee of continuoud existence, is one component of the chamber'x efforts and a big part of its political goalws in terms of identifying andelecting pro-business candidates, said Doug vice president of grassroots advocacyh and PAC development, Florida Chamber. A CCE is similard to a politicalaction committee, but is membershipo oriented and has dues and a board. It is more long term than a PAC, Wheeleer said.
This new regional CCE was formede as part of theFlorida Chamber's statewide regional effortsz to engage local members in the legislative and political processx by helping to identify and elect pro-business, pro-jobs candidatesa to state office. "It's formalizing of some of our members in that Wheeler said. The group will unify Floridwa Chamber businesses in eleven counties stretchinh from Hernando southward to Sarasota andfrom Pasco/Pinellas east to a release said. Its goal is to brinvg local businesses and leaders togethee and make the West Central Florida Chamber Alliance a stron g political force inthe area.
"The bandingf together of area business leaders to form this entity will fill a huge void for many businesses inthe area," said Brown in a release. "Wed will be able to influence state level politics at the local leveol andelect pro-business candidates much more effectively as a group than we ever could have individually."
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Fryer-oil debate sizzling - bizjournals:
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Pete Meersman, president of the , said the policyg violates long-accepted law that the oil used to cook food is part of the fina restaurantproduct that’s sold and taxed, and should be considereed wholesale and tax-exempt. Otherwise, it’s beiny taxed twice, he said. But official s from the city and state, which discovererd the unpaid tax aftere performing sales audits on suppliersand restaurants, say they’vde been using the same interpretation for years and only recently have begunm to hear complaints. Fryer oil isn’t the same as food they said. At stake is potentially millions of dollars for the Restaurants already workon razor-thin affected businesses said.
“My concern is we’ve got restaurateurs out therd fighting the great fight in atough economy, and as soon as this is it will get passed along, and every restaurant that’s tryintg to make payroll will have to put this on theird back,” said Chris DeWitt, president of of Denver, which was citefd last year for not charging tax to retailers for fryerr oil. Restaurants aren’t taxed on item such as meat, vegetables and spices that they prepar and serveto customers, who then pay tax on theif meals. At issue is whether fryert oil is considered one of thoserwholesale materials.
Because the oil soaks into thefood it’s used to and can be re-usee a finite number of times — unlike non-exempg items, such as fryer pans and stovesd — it definitely is a food product, Meersmanb argued. But Eric Brown, communications director for Denver MayorJohn Hickenlooper, said that cooking oil is like the appliances, as a medium to cook food rather than as an ingredientg in it. “The cooking oil does not meet the wholesalw exemption incity law,” Browmn said. Though some audit subjects, such as are beginning to challengesuch findings, none has taken the issues to court yet.
In 1989, the backedf several restaurants there that sued the state government over a requiremenyt that they pay tax on 50 percent of theoil (with the statd reasoning that only half the oil was soaked into the The Missouri Supreme Court examinefd the rulings of other found it impossible to measurw the amount of oil that becomes part of the finall food product, and therefore said no tax could be charged on it. “Inh the establishments herein, the cooking oil would be but thefirsrt step,” Judge Warren Welliver wrote for a unanimous “Only a portion of the flour and spices end up in the final Only a portion of the potatoes end up as finishedd product.
Chicken trimmings are consigned tothe garbage. The same is true for the componenrt parts ofthe salad. Accurately measuring the amount of materiap physically remaining in the final product is neither feasiblwnor possible.” While several other Colorado citiee employ a similar practice — includingy Commerce City, Greenwood Village and Westminster, Browjn noted — at least one examined it severaol years ago and decided the oil was Lakewood Finance Director Larry Dorr said officials ther e talked to attorneys and and reasoned the portion of the produc that’s not soaked into the food is too minimapl to tax.
“Our interpretationm was, ‘yeah, it’s used up, it doesn’t last foreveer and some of the oil does stay in the Dorr said. “If it didn’t, these fried foods would be a lot healthier to But because statelaw doesn’t definer what specific materials are taxable or and because home-rule cities are allowed to make theidr own interpretations of their equally vague tax there’s no move to change statutd by Denver or the state. Mark spokesman for the , said he’d foundd audits going back to 1998 in whicyh restaurants were assessed tax for the oil and paidthe tax.
Oil is drainede into containers and thrown out as differentiating it from the served he said. “That is clearly how it’s differentr than a piece of meat or a sliceof potato,” Coucgh said. Restaurants, however, figure the cost of the oil into the finap price of the meal when decidingt how much they will charge customers for that burger or thosebuffalo wings, Meersman said. If they’rr forced to pay taxes on it, that woulr mean the government is taxing theitem twice. That coulrd hurt the business atmosphere in Denver even more than it coulfharm restaurants, DeWitt said. “If arbitrarilu our government can reach in and tax whatevetr theyneed to, where does it stop?
” he “And when does it make Denver a less attractivew place to do business?”
Pete Meersman, president of the , said the policyg violates long-accepted law that the oil used to cook food is part of the fina restaurantproduct that’s sold and taxed, and should be considereed wholesale and tax-exempt. Otherwise, it’s beiny taxed twice, he said. But official s from the city and state, which discovererd the unpaid tax aftere performing sales audits on suppliersand restaurants, say they’vde been using the same interpretation for years and only recently have begunm to hear complaints. Fryer oil isn’t the same as food they said. At stake is potentially millions of dollars for the Restaurants already workon razor-thin affected businesses said.
“My concern is we’ve got restaurateurs out therd fighting the great fight in atough economy, and as soon as this is it will get passed along, and every restaurant that’s tryintg to make payroll will have to put this on theird back,” said Chris DeWitt, president of of Denver, which was citefd last year for not charging tax to retailers for fryerr oil. Restaurants aren’t taxed on item such as meat, vegetables and spices that they prepar and serveto customers, who then pay tax on theif meals. At issue is whether fryert oil is considered one of thoserwholesale materials.
Because the oil soaks into thefood it’s used to and can be re-usee a finite number of times — unlike non-exempg items, such as fryer pans and stovesd — it definitely is a food product, Meersmanb argued. But Eric Brown, communications director for Denver MayorJohn Hickenlooper, said that cooking oil is like the appliances, as a medium to cook food rather than as an ingredientg in it. “The cooking oil does not meet the wholesalw exemption incity law,” Browmn said. Though some audit subjects, such as are beginning to challengesuch findings, none has taken the issues to court yet.
In 1989, the backedf several restaurants there that sued the state government over a requiremenyt that they pay tax on 50 percent of theoil (with the statd reasoning that only half the oil was soaked into the The Missouri Supreme Court examinefd the rulings of other found it impossible to measurw the amount of oil that becomes part of the finall food product, and therefore said no tax could be charged on it. “Inh the establishments herein, the cooking oil would be but thefirsrt step,” Judge Warren Welliver wrote for a unanimous “Only a portion of the flour and spices end up in the final Only a portion of the potatoes end up as finishedd product.
Chicken trimmings are consigned tothe garbage. The same is true for the componenrt parts ofthe salad. Accurately measuring the amount of materiap physically remaining in the final product is neither feasiblwnor possible.” While several other Colorado citiee employ a similar practice — includingy Commerce City, Greenwood Village and Westminster, Browjn noted — at least one examined it severaol years ago and decided the oil was Lakewood Finance Director Larry Dorr said officials ther e talked to attorneys and and reasoned the portion of the produc that’s not soaked into the food is too minimapl to tax.
“Our interpretationm was, ‘yeah, it’s used up, it doesn’t last foreveer and some of the oil does stay in the Dorr said. “If it didn’t, these fried foods would be a lot healthier to But because statelaw doesn’t definer what specific materials are taxable or and because home-rule cities are allowed to make theidr own interpretations of their equally vague tax there’s no move to change statutd by Denver or the state. Mark spokesman for the , said he’d foundd audits going back to 1998 in whicyh restaurants were assessed tax for the oil and paidthe tax.
Oil is drainede into containers and thrown out as differentiating it from the served he said. “That is clearly how it’s differentr than a piece of meat or a sliceof potato,” Coucgh said. Restaurants, however, figure the cost of the oil into the finap price of the meal when decidingt how much they will charge customers for that burger or thosebuffalo wings, Meersman said. If they’rr forced to pay taxes on it, that woulr mean the government is taxing theitem twice. That coulrd hurt the business atmosphere in Denver even more than it coulfharm restaurants, DeWitt said. “If arbitrarilu our government can reach in and tax whatevetr theyneed to, where does it stop?
” he “And when does it make Denver a less attractivew place to do business?”
Monday, December 20, 2010
Bombino fined $40K for illegal crop shipments - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
http://snipsly.com/2010/12/10/choosing-the-right-wood-flooring-for-your-home/
Bombino Express imported 34 packages of Indiab mangoes and yams that werelabeled “ladiesa apparel” through Los Angeles International Airport in July. Airportg dogs discovered the packages and officialsz confiscatedthe shipment. Federal and state laws ban importing of untreatedr mangoes and yamsfrom India, which can be infestecd with numerous crop-damaging including the devastating Oriental fruif fly. “Invasive pests are a primary threatg toour crops, and keeping them out of Californiza is vital to the security of our food supplgy and the stability of our agricultural crop,” California Department of Food & Agriculture secretary A.G.
Kawamurw said in a news release. Bombino will pay $40,000 in civil penalties, and face a $1.6 milliomn penalty if it violatesthe agreement, according to the agreementf with the Attorney Generalo and CDFA. Agriculture officialx say the Oriental fruit fly could costthe state’s millionsx of dollars in crop losses, eradication effortsa and quarantine requirements. “It’s criticapl that imported produce be properly inspecteds to avoid devastating and costly pest Attorney General Jerry Brownsaid
Bombino Express imported 34 packages of Indiab mangoes and yams that werelabeled “ladiesa apparel” through Los Angeles International Airport in July. Airportg dogs discovered the packages and officialsz confiscatedthe shipment. Federal and state laws ban importing of untreatedr mangoes and yamsfrom India, which can be infestecd with numerous crop-damaging including the devastating Oriental fruif fly. “Invasive pests are a primary threatg toour crops, and keeping them out of Californiza is vital to the security of our food supplgy and the stability of our agricultural crop,” California Department of Food & Agriculture secretary A.G.
Kawamurw said in a news release. Bombino will pay $40,000 in civil penalties, and face a $1.6 milliomn penalty if it violatesthe agreement, according to the agreementf with the Attorney Generalo and CDFA. Agriculture officialx say the Oriental fruit fly could costthe state’s millionsx of dollars in crop losses, eradication effortsa and quarantine requirements. “It’s criticapl that imported produce be properly inspecteds to avoid devastating and costly pest Attorney General Jerry Brownsaid
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