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  • Hannah's Hope Fund closing in on $250,000 Pepsi prize
    Aug 31, 2010 — Times Union
    They have already raised $2.2 million. But it's very possible that they could also win an additional $250,000 from Pepsi. As of Saturday afternoon, Hannah's Hope Fund was in third place. Researchers at the school's RNA Institute, the Cancer Research Center and the New York Stem Cell Institute have also been applying for federal funding to find a cure for GAN.
  • Businesses alarmed by new IRS reporting rules
    Aug 30, 2010 — Foster's Daily Democrat
    In a July letter to Douglas Shulman, commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Sen.
  • Local schools stand to gain from state's win
    Aug 30, 2010 — Press-Republican
    ...federal money, in part, to transform teacher evaluations to include multiple measures and value-added components. "A huge emphasis is being put on teacher evaluation, and a side piece will be professional development for teachers," Short said. "As we raise the bar, we must support that with professional development for teachers." JUST ONE PIECE Adoption of a new performance evaluation model based on current research and practices at Saranac Central School will...
  • New look, new vigor
    Aug 30, 2010 — Times Union
    ...campus has also become an engine for job growth, home to satellite offices of biomedical companies like Taconic Farms, a company that breeds mice for drug trials, and AMRI, a pharmaceutical development firm. And although it is not an actual tenant, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:REGN) has a production facility next door to the East Campus property. The East Campus is also home to UAlbany's 117,000-square-foot Cancer Research Center, whose scientists and researchers have been...
  • UAlbany gets behind Hannah's Hope Fund
    Aug 30, 2010 — Times Union
    The soda maker's contest will award that amount to the two ideas that get the most votes. As of Saturday afternoon, Hannah's Hope Fund was in third place, up six spots from just a week ago. Researchers at the school's RNA Institute, the Cancer Research Center and the New York Stem Cell Institute have also been applying for federal funding to find a cure for GAN.
  • Small businesses got bigger share of the pie last year
    Aug 28, 2010 — New Haven Register
    ...all federal spending) goal is met and exceeded." The SBA tracks businesses in five categories: small businesses overall, women-owned small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, and so-called HUB Zone business that are in historically underused business zones. Of those categories, only one -- small disadvantaged businesses -- exceeded its goal for the year in 2009. Its contract awards represented 7.6 percent of all federal...
  • Stem cell research advocates undeterred by funding ban
    Aug 28, 2010 — Newsday
    Bruce Stillman, president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Stillman said the decision makes America the only country in the world to ban this kind of research.
  • Senate hopefuls support stem cell work
    Aug 27, 2010 — New Haven Register
    ...embryonic stem cell research. Blumenthal said one of his first actions would be to overturn the Dickey-Wicker Amendment that prevents use of federal funds to create new lines of human embryonic stem cells. Ed Patru, communications director for McMahon, said McMahon and Blumenthal are essentially in agreement on this issue. "This is a legislative responsibility," Patru said. "The legislature should change the law. (McMahon) supports federal funding for stem cell research" for the...
  • Number Of Serious Mortgage Delinquencies Falls
    Aug 26, 2010 — The Hartford Courant
    ...delinquencies going forward depends on jobs," said Jay Brinkmann, the association's chief economist. Connecticut's rate of foreclosure and seriously delinquent loans for the most recent quarter was still below the national rate of 9.11 percent but above the rate of 7.5 percent for New England. Nationally, all loans past due were 9.4 percent of the total in the second quarter, flat compared with the previous quarter. On a seasonally adjusted basis, all loans past due were 9.85...
  • Scientists anxious about ruling
    Aug 26, 2010 — New Haven Register
    A Yale spokeswoman said one NIH grant was pending review, but she did not know of any other NIH grants at the university. He said it will be easier to do this now than in a year or more when the court rules. It's too soon to abandon embryos," she said. "We have to have embryonic cells to test them against.
  • CORRECTION
    Aug 25, 2010 — Indian Country Today
    She said NATHPO would continue assisting Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations in their work to bring home their ancestors and sacred objects.
  • GAO finds major federal NAGPRA snafus
    Aug 25, 2010 — Indian Country Today
    She said NATHPO would continue assisting Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations in their work to bring home their ancestors and sacred objects.
  • Internet's effect on economy eyed
    Aug 25, 2010 — Watertown Daily Times
    Lawrence County Information Technology Committee members told members of the St. Lawrence County will be the most connected county north of the Thruway." Ms. Lynch said the River Agency and IT Committee need to keep a dialogue so they can jointly solve telecommunications problems that impede economic growth.
  • OPINION
    Aug 25, 2010 — The Hartford Courant
    ...judge's stunning preliminary injunction against using federal funds for human embryonic stem-cell research has thrown labs throughout the country -- including cutting-edge University of Connecticut -- into scramble mode. Embryonic stem cell research uses cells found in human embryos to seek cures for a raft of chronic diseases, among them diabetes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. While Justice Department attorneys review the ruling, UConn's Stem Cell Institute's director, Marc Lalande,...
  • Program links city entrepreneurs, capital
    Aug 25, 2010 — New Haven Register
    The New York session will be Oct. 11.
  • Lieberman throws support to small-biz bill
    Aug 24, 2010 — The Day
    The fund is designed to encourage small-business lending by smaller banks, or those with less than $10 billion in assets.
  • BRIEF
    Aug 23, 2010 — Portland Press Herald
    Portland will require that all new single-family homes and duplexes be built with fire sprinkler systems. The City Council last week voted Aug. 16 to update the city's fire safety code and became the third Maine community, after Westbrook and Rockland, to adopt the requirement, according to the National Fire Sprinkler Association. The new standard takes effect Sept. 15 and means that all residential construction is now covered, according to Ben Wallace, Portland's fire safety...
  • Lieberman supports small-business legislation
    Aug 23, 2010 — The Day
    Anthony Cronin Aug. 23, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- U.S. Sen.
  • Job losses could hurt recovery
    Aug 19, 2010 — The Day
    ...jobs," he said. While the national recession began in December 2007, Connecticut's economic downturn didn't take hold until March 2008, when statewide employment began to tumble from its peak of more than 1.7 million jobs. Connecticut's economy tends to lag the national economy going into a recession, and likewise lags the national economy in terms of economic recovery. During the course of Connecticut's Great Recession, this state has seen the loss of nearly 90,000 jobs. That...
  • Debate candidates vent ? on Washington
    Aug 18, 2010 — The Keene Sentinel
    Horn, who instead insisted that "we have to reform the way Congress works. We need a balanced budget amendment and constantly audited federal spending." Horn is a strong supporter of term limits for Congress and said she would advocate the elimination of Congressional pensions. Robert J. Guida, a former member of the state House of Representatives, spoke of helping small businesses. "I would eliminate the capital gains tax and reduce the federal income tax to 15 percent...
  • State OKs $260 Million To Pay For Commuter Rail System
    Aug 18, 2010 — The Hartford Courant
    The Congressional delegation says it believes it can land up to $220 million in matching federal grants this fall. "We feel confident. But without that $260 million in state money, we wouldn't have had a prayer," said Rep. The plan is to link Springfield to Amtrak service north into Vermont and east to Worcester, then eventually into Boston.
  • Regional approach may aid businesses
    Aug 17, 2010 — Watertown Daily Times
    Such programs as the Tech Garden and the Emerging Business Competition have encouraged locally grown small businesses, according to CenterState.
  • RIPTA considers additional charge for 'premium' service
    Aug 17, 2010 — The Providence Journal
    Officials said it might be covered through unexpected revenue from the state gasoline tax, and that it might shrink when the books are reconciled following the end of the fiscal year.
  • Empty, but filled with questions
    Aug 16, 2010 — Morning Sentinel
    Somebody actually cut it out and took it with them. "I think the mural should have stayed with the building.
  • R.I. faith-group aid for renewable energy on hold
    Aug 15, 2010 — The Providence Journal
    Chambers said this has been the EDC policy since it began managing the fund in 2008. The Rhode Island chapter opened in 2007. The 90 solar panels at the Christ the King Church and School would be installed by Greenlight Energy Solutions, based in North Providence. Brown said his group was told that the funding would be on hold until the General Assembly voted.
  • Sen. Collins tours research, clinical facilities
    Aug 10, 2010 — Bangor Daily News
    ...funded by the Appropriations bill, including the NIH funding, but hopes to rein in overall nonentitlement spending in the federal budget. NIH funding got a $10 billion boost in 2008 thanks to federal stimulus allocations, she noted. The future of the Maine Institute for Human Genetics and Health is dependent on NIH funding in an increasingly competitive environment, said institute director Hock. "The recovery money will be finishing up, and all [biomedical researchers] will be...
  • Warren County
    Aug 10, 2010 — The Post-Star
    CEO Rick Whitney told the Warren County Economic Development Corp.'s annual luncheon that these firms will want shovel-ready and, better yet, already permitted sites. Many will look for "flex space" -- versatile buildings with curb appeal that can be easily configured for industrial, storage and office uses. The money has yet to be awarded. "We have shovel-ready sites that you just have to get site plan review on.
  • The Buffalo News, N.Y., MoneySmart column
    Aug 9, 2010 — The Buffalo News
    She participated in UB's 12- month Allstate (NYSE:ALL) Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneur Program, which paired her with experienced business owners who served as mentors.
  • As the closing bell looms, Schiff looks to mount a late rally
    Aug 8, 2010 — Connecticut Post
    That's what I say," Schiff, 47, says after one of the patrons, both of whom identify themselves as undecided Republican primary voters, solicits investment advice. He supports raising the retirement age and means-testing for Social Security. "It's a Ponzi scheme. It's a Bernie Madoff scheme," Schiff says of Social Security. "There are a lot of people collecting Social Security who don't need the money.
  • John Kostrzewa
    Aug 8, 2010 — The Providence Journal
    Overall, Rhode Island spends nearly $2 billion to educate roughly 145,000 public school students, with the state contributing $860 million a year. Consumer spending and personal income were flat in June. If the national recovery stalls, the effects of the long recession that Rhode Islanders hope to put behind them will linger. John Kostrzewa is assistant managing editor/commerce and consumer issues.
  • Schiff embraces tea party philosophy
    Aug 8, 2010 — New Haven Register
    Ed Stannard Aug. 8, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- Peter Schiff is a true believer. He believes government should be small; he'd close the federal Education, Energy and Agriculture departments. Well, you know what, we can't tax them enough.
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