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August 30, 2008
At least two hotels in Santa Fe are offering rebates to ease the pain of high gas prices.
Park Inn is offering a $20 gas rebate check for guests who stay a minimum of two nights at any Park Inn location in the U.S. and Canada through September 30. The chain has locations around the world, […]
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August 1, 2008
The price of condominiums on Maui rose while single-family home prices declined during the first half of 2008, according to a new report from Prudential Locations.
The median price of condominiums rose 9.5 percent to $575,000 in the first half of 2008, Prudential Locations said Thursday. Most sales took place in the Wailea/Makena […]
economics - Comments closed
June 30, 2008
The biggest bear market in Treasuries since 2004 may get worse.
Unlike four years ago, when Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan embarked on 17 consecutive interest-rate increases to contain the threat of rising consumer prices, his successor Ben S. Bernanke is giving investors few assurances that the scourge of inflation will abate anytime soon. […]
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June 11, 2008
A shareholders' group that owns 6 percent of the stock of Danka Business Systems PLC is speaking out against some of the terms of the planned sale of Danka's operations to Konica Minolta.
DCML LLC, a group based in New York, said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that while […]
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May 15, 2008
The largest solar project in the San Francisco and the third largest in the country is coming to a city rooftop near you.
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission authorized a new 5 megawatt solar power project that will grace the roofs of the newly retrofitted Sunset Reservoir and the Pier 96 which houses […]
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April 28, 2008
New York Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman has submitted a $580 million bid for Tribune Co’s Newsday daily newspaper on Long Island, New York, matching a bid by News Corp (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Murdoch’s New York Post daily tabloid newspaper is […]
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April 12, 2008
A day after storms left as many as 200,000 homes and businesses without power, Oncor said its crews and contractors are closing in on restoring power to most customers by late Saturday.
Roughly 25,000 customers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area were without power Friday afternoon, down from 50,000 Friday morning. At the height […]
economics - Comments closed
March 19, 2008
Black & Veatch reported record revenue of $3.2 billion in 2007, up 47 percent from $2.17 billion the prior year.
The Overland Park-based company said in a release Tuesday that employment increased 11.6 percent to 9,600, up from 8,600 in 2006.
The company now has about 3,800 employees in the Kansas City area, […]
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February 15, 2008
Dunkin' Donuts announced Thursday it plans to bring more than 100 new restaurants over the next several years to the St. Louis market.
The baked goods and coffee chain is seeking new franchisees to own and operate a minimum of five new Dunkin' Donuts locations in St. Louis and surrounding counties on both […]
economics - Comments closed
February 5, 2008
In its latest quarterly financial report filed Monday, LSI Industries Inc. said large numbers of shareholders withheld votes for Chairman and CEO Bob Ready, for its executive vice president in charge of manufacturing James Sferra, and for Cincinnati lawyer Gary Kreider in voting for LSI's board of directors at its annual meeting in November. […]