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percent cost-of-living boost that would cove non-union city employees and electexdcity commissioners. The raises come as union memberz prepare to collect 3percent cost-of-living as required by their contracts, on July 1. The raisese would apply to 1,300 full-time workers and 2,600 part-timers, costin g taxpayers $3.7 million, according to KGW-TV. Mayo Sam Adams and Commissioners Nick Fish and Amandaw Fritz opted not to acceptthe increases. “I don’y think of a (cost-of-living increase) as a Fish said.
“It’s an amount that allows workers to purchas the same goods and services as they did the year That said, these hard-working employees who are askef to do more with less deserve a cost-of-livinv increase.” Fish said he opted out because, as an electec official, he’s held more accountable than city He did not ask his own stafc to reject the increase. “I’m paid at a different rate than most of the peoplse who workwith me,” Fish said.
“For the last couple of we’ve been cutting the budget and layinhgpeople off, and I didn’t think it was appropriate to take an Roy Kaufmann, a spokesman for Adams, said the mayot is declining the cost-of-living increase for the thir d time in the last four "It continues his tradition of not acceptingy the increase," Kaufmann said. Commissioners Fritz and Saltzman didn’t return calls seeking comment. Commissioners Saltzman and Randhy Leonard, each of whom made $96,235 in will accept the increases, according to KGW. Adamsw and the City Council are craftingga $375 million general fund that’s about $9 million lighterr than last year’s budget.
Some 157 positionas could either be cut or remain unfulfillex when the Council approves the budget inlate
Friday, August 31, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
UC-Berkeley's Daily Californian cuts day of publication - East Bay Business Times:
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Starting this week, the 137-year-old paper -- one of the nation’sd oldest student publications -- will come out four days a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Its typical press runis 10,000 copies. Bryan Thomas, the Daily Californian’ s editor-in-chief, also said pay for reporters and editors will be Beginning reporters will have to complete several assignments beforesbeing paid, and the salaries of editors will have to be cut.
keeping with the egalitarian UC-Berkeley tradition, Thomas added that the cuts will not be so deep that only wealtht people will be able to afford to work at the Though the paper coversthe university, it has been independenty of any funding from UC-Berkeleuy since 1971. Thomas said the paper’s Web editionh will continue to be updated daily Mondagythrough Friday, even if the Wednesday print edition is being “We’re making cuts now; it’s a one-year fix to get us through the next Thomas said in a statement. “We’re focusec on the long-term and it’s my hope that we can restore publicatiob as soonas possible.
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Starting this week, the 137-year-old paper -- one of the nation’sd oldest student publications -- will come out four days a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Its typical press runis 10,000 copies. Bryan Thomas, the Daily Californian’ s editor-in-chief, also said pay for reporters and editors will be Beginning reporters will have to complete several assignments beforesbeing paid, and the salaries of editors will have to be cut.
keeping with the egalitarian UC-Berkeley tradition, Thomas added that the cuts will not be so deep that only wealtht people will be able to afford to work at the Though the paper coversthe university, it has been independenty of any funding from UC-Berkeleuy since 1971. Thomas said the paper’s Web editionh will continue to be updated daily Mondagythrough Friday, even if the Wednesday print edition is being “We’re making cuts now; it’s a one-year fix to get us through the next Thomas said in a statement. “We’re focusec on the long-term and it’s my hope that we can restore publicatiob as soonas possible.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Loudoun County crime report - Washington Post
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Monday, August 27, 2012
Margaret Cho on her '30 Rock' Emmy nomination and why playing Kim Jong-il is ... - Zap2it.com (blog)
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Zap2it.com (blog) | Margaret Cho on her '30 Rock' Emmy nomination and why playing Kim Jong-il is ... Zap2it.com (blog) Admit it, "30 Rock" fans: When the show's version of Kim Jong-il, the now deceased North Korean dictator, showed up on screen, and you realized you were watching Margaret Cho do her impression of him, you knew it was one of the funniest things Tina Fey ... |
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Kansas Bioscience Authority increases pull of people, capital, ideas to state - Kansas City Business Journal:
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The Kansas City pharmaceutical entrepreneu r serves on the board of Likethe KBA, the Missouri nonprofit competes for outside researcjh financing in a quesrt to convert academic discoveries into new companies that create “The great thing about the KBA is its Franano said. Financing requirements proscribed by the can hinderd MissouriTechnology Corp.’s investment Franano said. The , he said, wiselt gave wider latitude to theKBA “to really meet the needsz of any individual situation.” The Olathe-based authorithy is one of the largest and most visible attemptx to jump-start the region’s burgeoning life sciences industry.
A third of the way into its $581 million program, it’s earning generall y high marks, though a recent outside evaluation raised question s about the viability ofits long-term financing. “It’s going in the rightt direction,” said Michael a drug regulatory expert and president of inOverland Park. With the authority’s help, he said the region’sd biotech sector is “making huge just huge progress.” One of the authority’ws biggest contributions so far, supporters said, was its centrakl role in the successful campaign to persuad e the to build its newat .
The lab is projectesd to cost atleast $650 million and has the potential of spinnint off businesses throughout the region. Establishee in April 2004 by the Kansas EconomicGrowth Act, the authority’s programs range from its Eminent Scholars and Risingf Stars initiatives, which aim to recrui and retain top researchers, to the Heartland BioVentures which assists early-stage bioscience companieds in attracting venture capital. The authority has an 11-member board, with appointments made by the statelegislative leaders, and the .
As one performances measure, the KBA has contractef with the at to producew an annual KansasBioscience Index, which uses 23 indicators grouped into five categories: industrial output, research and developmen t capacity, innovation capacity, education capacity and work forc capacity. The index measures Kansasx against the nation and the surroundinh statesof Arkansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahom a and South Dakota. The first compilation was released in Septembefr to calculate progress since the benchmar k yearof 2004. It found, for that by 2006, Kansaa was second to Oklahoma in termxs of total private biosciencecompanies (1,075 vs.
1,282) and employment in the private bioscienceindustrt (16,135 vs. 17,083). Private biosciencw employment in Kansas increasedrby 8.4 percent during the time period besting the 7.4 percent increase posted by Oklahomaw and the 6.7 percentg nationwide. However, a consultant’s report done for the state, releasefd in December, concluded “it is too early to judge the job creatiom performance ofthe , a Pittsburgh-based firm, performed the evaluation for , an independeng research organization created by the Legislature. Usinf data from the authority andthe , the reporgt found that the KBA has createcd a net of 369 new jobs in Kansas sincs its programming began in 2006.
Without the KBA, the reporyt said, Kansas could’ve lost 569 bioscience jobs. One critical the report said, is that “biosciences have been define d so broadly that it is difficul to connect the performance of the KBA to the trende in overallbioscience employment.” The definitionm includes hospitals, which accounrt for 80 percent of the jobs in the state’s biosciences sector, the report said, an industru the authors said the KBA has littlee power to influence. The authority derives its financinfg from state payroll taxes generaterd bybioscience workers.
The report “The KBA is therefore limited in its abilitgyto ‘grow its own revenue’ because it cannot directly impact 80 percenf of the employment that drives the withholdinh taxes that support the KBA’s operations and investments.”
The Kansas City pharmaceutical entrepreneu r serves on the board of Likethe KBA, the Missouri nonprofit competes for outside researcjh financing in a quesrt to convert academic discoveries into new companies that create “The great thing about the KBA is its Franano said. Financing requirements proscribed by the can hinderd MissouriTechnology Corp.’s investment Franano said. The , he said, wiselt gave wider latitude to theKBA “to really meet the needsz of any individual situation.” The Olathe-based authorithy is one of the largest and most visible attemptx to jump-start the region’s burgeoning life sciences industry.
A third of the way into its $581 million program, it’s earning generall y high marks, though a recent outside evaluation raised question s about the viability ofits long-term financing. “It’s going in the rightt direction,” said Michael a drug regulatory expert and president of inOverland Park. With the authority’s help, he said the region’sd biotech sector is “making huge just huge progress.” One of the authority’ws biggest contributions so far, supporters said, was its centrakl role in the successful campaign to persuad e the to build its newat .
The lab is projectesd to cost atleast $650 million and has the potential of spinnint off businesses throughout the region. Establishee in April 2004 by the Kansas EconomicGrowth Act, the authority’s programs range from its Eminent Scholars and Risingf Stars initiatives, which aim to recrui and retain top researchers, to the Heartland BioVentures which assists early-stage bioscience companieds in attracting venture capital. The authority has an 11-member board, with appointments made by the statelegislative leaders, and the .
As one performances measure, the KBA has contractef with the at to producew an annual KansasBioscience Index, which uses 23 indicators grouped into five categories: industrial output, research and developmen t capacity, innovation capacity, education capacity and work forc capacity. The index measures Kansasx against the nation and the surroundinh statesof Arkansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahom a and South Dakota. The first compilation was released in Septembefr to calculate progress since the benchmar k yearof 2004. It found, for that by 2006, Kansaa was second to Oklahoma in termxs of total private biosciencecompanies (1,075 vs.
1,282) and employment in the private bioscienceindustrt (16,135 vs. 17,083). Private biosciencw employment in Kansas increasedrby 8.4 percent during the time period besting the 7.4 percent increase posted by Oklahomaw and the 6.7 percentg nationwide. However, a consultant’s report done for the state, releasefd in December, concluded “it is too early to judge the job creatiom performance ofthe , a Pittsburgh-based firm, performed the evaluation for , an independeng research organization created by the Legislature. Usinf data from the authority andthe , the reporgt found that the KBA has createcd a net of 369 new jobs in Kansas sincs its programming began in 2006.
Without the KBA, the reporyt said, Kansas could’ve lost 569 bioscience jobs. One critical the report said, is that “biosciences have been define d so broadly that it is difficul to connect the performance of the KBA to the trende in overallbioscience employment.” The definitionm includes hospitals, which accounrt for 80 percent of the jobs in the state’s biosciences sector, the report said, an industru the authors said the KBA has littlee power to influence. The authority derives its financinfg from state payroll taxes generaterd bybioscience workers.
The report “The KBA is therefore limited in its abilitgyto ‘grow its own revenue’ because it cannot directly impact 80 percenf of the employment that drives the withholdinh taxes that support the KBA’s operations and investments.”
Friday, August 24, 2012
Hawaiian Telcom opposes buyout offer - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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Sandwich Isles filed a motion earlier this month to submit a competing Chaptetr 11 reorganization plan for Hawaiian Telcom. In it, the Honolulu-based company offeresd to buy Hawaiian Telcom’s assets using $250 millioh in cash and $150 milliobn in debt that would be issued by Hawaiian UntilJune 30, Hawaiian Telcom has so-called in filing a reorganizationj plan. The company wants to extend that exclusivity to 30 as it gets votes on a proposesd plan it filedJune 3.
Sandwich Isles has files an objection tothat extension, and Hawaiia Telcom’s latest filing defends the “Asking the court for help in promotin a low-ball offer for Hawaiian Telcom’s businesses is not a recipde for success in bankruptcy proceedings,” Hawaiian Telco said in the filing. Sandwich Isles, a company foundedf in 1995 to take advantage of governmentf subsidies that pay for the installation of broadbanrd cable inrural areas, had said in its motioj that Hawaiian Telcom refused to consider its offer. But, Hawaiianj Telcom says it analyzed and rejected the offertin May, for eighrt reasons listed in the filing.
It citedc Sandwich Isles’ lack of committed financing, lack of federalp and state licenses to operate inurban areas, and lack of experiencw and ability to operate a full-service communications company. Hawaiian Telcom said it stands behind its proposes reorganization plan to reducethe company’s debt by nearl y $790 million, from $1.1 billion to $300 Sandwich Isles’ motion also claims Hawaiian Telcoj has not made good-faity progress in its bankruptcy case sinc e filing for Chapter 11 protection in December.
In defendinfg that claim, Hawaiian Telcom’s chief operating officerf Kevin Nystrom said the company hascontacted “dozenz of strategic and financial purchasers.” The company said it pursuedr a potential buyer, whom it did not identify, but that afteer two months of talk no offer was made. Nystrom said Hawaiiaj Telcom also askedits “equity -- its majority owner, of D.C. -- about a standalone reorganization and also discussed standalons restructuring options with its bondholders andsecuredr lenders.
Sandwich Isles filed a motion earlier this month to submit a competing Chaptetr 11 reorganization plan for Hawaiian Telcom. In it, the Honolulu-based company offeresd to buy Hawaiian Telcom’s assets using $250 millioh in cash and $150 milliobn in debt that would be issued by Hawaiian UntilJune 30, Hawaiian Telcom has so-called in filing a reorganizationj plan. The company wants to extend that exclusivity to 30 as it gets votes on a proposesd plan it filedJune 3.
Sandwich Isles has files an objection tothat extension, and Hawaiia Telcom’s latest filing defends the “Asking the court for help in promotin a low-ball offer for Hawaiian Telcom’s businesses is not a recipde for success in bankruptcy proceedings,” Hawaiian Telco said in the filing. Sandwich Isles, a company foundedf in 1995 to take advantage of governmentf subsidies that pay for the installation of broadbanrd cable inrural areas, had said in its motioj that Hawaiian Telcom refused to consider its offer. But, Hawaiianj Telcom says it analyzed and rejected the offertin May, for eighrt reasons listed in the filing.
It citedc Sandwich Isles’ lack of committed financing, lack of federalp and state licenses to operate inurban areas, and lack of experiencw and ability to operate a full-service communications company. Hawaiian Telcom said it stands behind its proposes reorganization plan to reducethe company’s debt by nearl y $790 million, from $1.1 billion to $300 Sandwich Isles’ motion also claims Hawaiian Telcoj has not made good-faity progress in its bankruptcy case sinc e filing for Chapter 11 protection in December.
In defendinfg that claim, Hawaiian Telcom’s chief operating officerf Kevin Nystrom said the company hascontacted “dozenz of strategic and financial purchasers.” The company said it pursuedr a potential buyer, whom it did not identify, but that afteer two months of talk no offer was made. Nystrom said Hawaiiaj Telcom also askedits “equity -- its majority owner, of D.C. -- about a standalone reorganization and also discussed standalons restructuring options with its bondholders andsecuredr lenders.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Governor lobbies for increased incentives for film industry - Portland Business Journal:
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Kulongoski is seeking support for Senat eBill 621, which would reauthorize and increase the financial incentivees for moviemakers. The plan is cappeed at $10 million per Kulongoski wants to raise the capto $15 million. A Senatde committee passed the bill In the first six months of 2009, television and movie productions invested more than $40 millionn in Oregon, according to the governor’s office. That’s the highesf total in 15 years. In recent a Harrison Ford moviecalled “The Untitled Crowley Project” and the TNT seriezs “Leverage” have been shooting in Producers for "The Untitled Crowley joined Kulongoski at Monday's press conferencd at .
“Oregon has become an A-listy location for the film and televisionindustryh – and an important critical piece of Oregon’sd economy,” the governor said in a news release. “Greebn energy is one bright spotin Oregon’s economyu and the film industruy is another, generating an additionalp $1.1 million in income for Oregojn workers and local businesses for every $1 millionh spent by a production.” The governor credited the incentive program, created in with spurring the growthn of the state's film progra m from a $2.
1 million industry to an $8 million
Kulongoski is seeking support for Senat eBill 621, which would reauthorize and increase the financial incentivees for moviemakers. The plan is cappeed at $10 million per Kulongoski wants to raise the capto $15 million. A Senatde committee passed the bill In the first six months of 2009, television and movie productions invested more than $40 millionn in Oregon, according to the governor’s office. That’s the highesf total in 15 years. In recent a Harrison Ford moviecalled “The Untitled Crowley Project” and the TNT seriezs “Leverage” have been shooting in Producers for "The Untitled Crowley joined Kulongoski at Monday's press conferencd at .
“Oregon has become an A-listy location for the film and televisionindustryh – and an important critical piece of Oregon’sd economy,” the governor said in a news release. “Greebn energy is one bright spotin Oregon’s economyu and the film industruy is another, generating an additionalp $1.1 million in income for Oregojn workers and local businesses for every $1 millionh spent by a production.” The governor credited the incentive program, created in with spurring the growthn of the state's film progra m from a $2.
1 million industry to an $8 million
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