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  • EDITORIAL: The trouble with Albany
    Mar 10, 2010 — The Buffalo News
    David A. Paterson is facing calls for his resignation. Multiple state legislators, including the former leader of the Senate, have been convicted of crimes related to the performance of their duties. Albany routinely spends far more per capita than other states, and more than New Yorkers can afford. Because the deficit is so high. Thus, calls for Paterson's resignation.
  • Lawmakers considering revision to R.I. tax system
    Mar 10, 2010 — The Providence Journal
    Costantino made similar comments last month. "We're basically looking at all these variables," DaPonte said.
  • State Pitches New $352 Million UConn Health Center Plan As 'Partnership'
    Mar 10, 2010 — The Hartford Courant
    Cato Laurencin, dean of UConn's School of Medicine and the university's vice president for health affairs, said having a rejuvenated hospital would help attract doctors and research funding. Yale Cancer Center is now the only program in the state with that designation, which comes from the National Cancer Institute, although Hartford Hospital's program has been designated a community cancer center. One, in 2007, called for building a $495 million, 352-bed hospital to replace Dempsey.
  • The Buffalo News, N.Y., Donn Esmonde column
    Mar 10, 2010 — The Buffalo News
    Termini wants an "urban summit" to brainstorm remedies for dying upstate downtowns. It would make it financially doable for developers to revive big downtown buildings--which would pad the tax rolls and spur more development. Downtown buildings rot for lack of an Albany tax credit.
  • Trafalgar East owner has 120 days to comply with fire code
    Mar 10, 2010 — The Providence Journal
    ...with state fire codes. If they don't, "we would consider it a violation" that could carry penalties, warned Gordon Preiss, a member of the state Fire Safety Code Board of Appeal and Review. On Tuesday the board unanimously approved the new deadline for safety improvements at the 40-year-old complex. John Bentz, a principal of Property Advisory Group, which owns Trafalgar, assured the board that the work would get done. The board, which grants variances to the fire code,...
  • Aid to state linked to census
    Mar 9, 2010 — New Haven Register
    ...capita. Nationally, $447 billion was distributed to states and local areas based on 2000 census results. The release coincides with letters the Census Bureau began mailing Monday in advance of sending out the 2010 survey forms, which will arrive at households later this month. The Brookings report, "Counting for Dollars: The Role of the Decennial Census in the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds," is a sweeping analysis that looks at 215 programs funded with federal...
  • Newsday, Melville, N.Y., Joye Brown column
    Mar 8, 2010 — Newsday
    Create a series of bus-only roadways -- one student dubbed it "a railroad for buses" -- embedded with sensors so customers would know when the next bus was coming. Better and more frequent rail service down the spine of Long Island. Expand railroad service all the way to the tip of the Island.
  • Projects hinge on state tax credit
    Mar 8, 2010 — The Buffalo News
    David A. Paterson's initial opposition to the tax credit bill.
  • Projects hinge on tax credit changes
    Mar 8, 2010 — The Buffalo News
    David A. Paterson's initial opposition to the tax credit bill.
  • EDITORIAL
    Mar 7, 2010 — The Day
    M. Jodi Rell announced that the state would bond $7.65 million for the construction of a diving support facility and new boiler. Navy Secretary Raymond E. Mabus Jr. recently informed Gov. However, the project is being set aside for small businesses owned by disabled military veterans.
  • Hire Education
    Mar 7, 2010 — Times Union
    ...technology sector is creating, relief for the unemployed isn't a sure thing. The new jobs will require specific skills that most of those now unemployed will lack. Even those with advanced technical degrees may not qualify if those degrees were earned a decade or more ago, given the pace of technological change. Job openings being advertised at GlobalFoundries in Malta include positions such as automation engineer, and other jobs with abbreviations such as as BEQL, CFM and CMP...
  • Medicine as an economic engine
    Mar 7, 2010 — The Buffalo News
    One is to provide specialty care, as at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, that attracts patients from other communities.
  • Pelosi vows health care passage
    Mar 7, 2010 — New Haven Register
    It allows private insurance plans that would be part of an insurance exchange to cover abortions, but they would be paid for with premiums paid directly by beneficiaries. Pelosi traced the impetus for reform back to Dr. We need to push back against the forces that just want to say no." Melissa Marottoli, 28, of Branford, said she was misdiagnosed with walking pneumonia in 2006.
  • R.I. budget hole waiting to be filled
    Mar 7, 2010 — The Providence Journal
    That's not the right way," Carcieri said in a brief interview late last week. "We're operating with fewer people than anybody can remember right now. Just to plug a number in there that's an across the board cut, I would not support that.
  • Study finds R.I. pension costs soaring
    Mar 7, 2010 — The Providence Journal
    That's everything from 1936 to now that you didn't do studies on, early retirements and all that stuff," Karpinski said. "We are on the road to recovery.
  • Schoodic center awarded $4.7 million in federal funds
    Mar 6, 2010 — Bangor Daily News
    All stimulus funds must be spent before the end of 2011, and the park definitely will meet that deadline, he said. U.S. Sens.
  • Lieberman sees ROTC benefiting from repeal of military ban on gays
    Mar 5, 2010 — The Day
    Other universities set up similar arrangements to avoid losing federal funding.
  • Derry has 10 candidates for 3 council seats: Council hopefuls speak on Exit 4A, economic development
    Mar 4, 2010 — The Derry News
    And I will go to vote for the town of Derry.
  • Lawmakers propose bond to spur job growth
    Mar 3, 2010 — Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine)
    Voters want jobs and this is an investment in the future." State Sen. Mike Carey, D-Lewiston, who serves on the Transportation Committee. The remainder of the funding would be used to lay track out of the Auburn, allowing more trains to use the port, he said. "It would also allow a turnaround.
  • Bickering puts Vt. programs in jeopardy
    Mar 2, 2010 — Brattleboro Reformer
    It is a nightmare to make changes and switch gears in midstream. There has not been another extension and that is a problem.
  • Franklin IDA aims to help communities
    Mar 2, 2010 — Press-Republican
    ...industry to link new and existing businesses with specialized markets worldwide. He also proposed an alliance between the IDA and the Du Haut-St. Laurent Local Development Corp. in Canada to create a cross-border industrial association to link the county's forest industries with Canada's. REVIEW THIS YEAR Tubbs said these strategies will be among those reviewed to see if they are still desirable goals in the 2010 economic climate. "We will exam the CEDS to...
  • Hotel Lafayette to be closed, renovation plans in jeopardy
    Mar 2, 2010 — The Buffalo News
    ...eviction notices. The Lafayette Tap Room, a popular downtown bar inside the structure, closed Saturday. Audio: Rocco Termini discussing the Hotel Lafayette's future this morning Developer Rocco Termini delivered the jolting announcement today at a special meeting of the city's Planning Board. He said delays in Albany involving needed reforms of a state historic tax credit law could doom his $35 million plan to turn the Hotel Lafayette into a boutique hotel, apartments, small...
  • Projected R.I. deficits are a ticking time bomb
    Feb 28, 2010 — The Providence Journal
    Steven Costantino, chairman of the House Finance Committee and a candidate for mayor of Providence. And Rhode Island will be the last state in New England to emerge from the recession. Without substantive restructuring, local governments, in particular, will not be able to support the current levels of services.
  • Federal funds to benefit milfoil battle, two Oxford County water bodies
    Feb 27, 2010 — Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine)
    It would include educational programs for milfoil mapping and control. Current methods of milfoil control include the removal of milfoil by hand or by divers assisted by boat-mounted suction systems. Organizations also utilize benthic barriers, coverings which kill the invasive plants by preventing photosynthesis. According to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection's Bureau of Land and Water Quality, both water bodies have variable leaf milfoil.
  • Small businesses cope with 'New Normal'
    Feb 27, 2010 — Connecticut Post
    Aitoro, the owner of Aitoro Appliances located on Norwalk's Westport Avenue since 1948. "Our showroom was Subzero, Viking and Wolf," he said. "Now it's Electrolux and GE. (NYSE:GE) " Aitoro Appliances used to average a couple of $30,000 custom kitchen installations a week, but now handles about one $6,000 job a week, said Aitoro, who joined the family business in 1973. "People are really watching what they spend and really researching (products)," he said.
  • State business to replace boiler at sub base
    Feb 25, 2010 — The Day
    ...-- GROTON -- The Navy plans to hire at least one Connecticut company for projects being funded by the state at the Naval Submarine Base. Gov. M. Jodi Rell presented Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus with $7.65 million in September to upgrade the facility for divers and replace the aging boilers at the base power plant. Rell then wrote to Mabus to ask that "competitive and qualified" Connecticut firms get "special consideration" when the contracts are awarded. Connecticut...
  • Landfill gas would heat UM: Stimulus funds sought to build 6-mile pipeline
    Feb 23, 2010 — Bangor Daily News
    ...city, in partnership with Casella Waste Management and the University of Maine, has requested $3 million in federal stimulus funding to construct a 6-mile gas pipeline connecting the Juniper Ridge Landfill, which Casella operates for the state of Maine, with the steam plant at UMaine, which supplies heat to much of the Orono campus. The new pipeline and some upgrades to the steam plant would enable the facility to switch from burning natural gas to purchasing and burning landfill gas,...
  • Pollak creates 'Remarkable' way to network
    Feb 23, 2010 — Connecticut Post
    The Small Business Administration named her the 2002 Home-Based Business Advocate for all of New England.
  • Some Rhode Island tax checkoff donations go straight to general fund
    Feb 23, 2010 — The Providence Journal
    Jonathan K. Farnum, R-Coventry, who cosponsored the nongame wildlife legislation and left the Senate in 1987. "It's misleading. I suppose it's not criminal, but it's certainly not ethical" to send the donations into the "bottomless pit" of the general fund, he said. "It's betrayal, but what else is new? Edward DiPrete's drug czar, Robert E. Rice, who predicted at the time that it would raise $25,000 to $250,000 per year.
  • Small businesses still suffering: Obama administration seeks to address lack of available loans
    Feb 22, 2010 — The Buffalo News
    Business owners are still hesitant to take a leap and grow because they're not yet convinced of the stability or strength of the recovery and customer demand. The Obama administration and Congress included tax breaks and other provisions in last year's Recovery Act to stimulate small business borrowing. As of the end of the agency's first quarter, on Dec. 31, the SBA had approved 12,393 type 7(a) loans for $3.8 billion.
  • House Speaker William Murphy leaves a mixed legacy
    Feb 21, 2010 — The Providence Journal
    And economists forecast that Rhode Island will be among the last states to climb out of the recession. Look at the numbers. Rhode Island lost more jobs by percentage than any other state in New England in the last decade, and almost twice as many by percentage as the United States. And you also need a workforce with skills to match the jobs that are being created.
  • Small businesses still suffering
    Feb 21, 2010 — The Buffalo News
    Business owners are still hesitant to take a leap and grow because they're not yet convinced of the stability or strength of the recovery and customer demand. The Obama administration and Congress included tax breaks and other provisions in last year's Recovery Act to stimulate small business borrowing. As of the end of the agency's first quarter, on Dec. 31, the SBA had approved 12,393 type 7(a) loans for $3.8 billion.
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