Published: March 3, 2010
Tags: Department of Workforce Development, DWD, jobs, veterans
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Eighteen job fairs for veterans living in Wisconsin have been scheduled between now and October.
The first job fair will be March 11 in Madison with the last one Oct. 15 in Superior.
Employment agencies and employers will be there looking to fill openings and veterans can also receive information about state and [...]
Published: March 2, 2010
Tags: wood
No word on charges in Milwaukee slayings, fire
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Police on Tuesday were still trying to sort out a case involving five suspects and their possible involvement in the homicides of two women, two children and a fire to cover up some of the deaths.
Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn said Monday that five people [...]
Published: March 2, 2010
Tags: Coury Collection, Coury Properties, distressed properties, foreclosures, HC Hospitality Asset Management, Hotel Consulting Group, Hunden Strategic Partners, problem hotel loans
By Kirby Lee Davis
Dolan Media Newswires
Minneapolis — An Oklahoma real estate developer and a Chicago hospitality analyst are teaming up to help banks with problem hotel loans across the Midwest.
Paul Coury, a real estate developer in Tulsa, Okla., and Robin Hunden have created a firm, HC Hospitality Asset Management, to capitalize on growing hotel loan [...]
Published: March 2, 2010
Tags: cash for clunkers, clean energy, Gold Star, Home Star, Obama, rebates, Savannah Technical College, Silver Star
By Darlene Superville
AP Writer
Savannah, Ga. — Sounding a familiar clean-energy theme, President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced details of a proposed energy rebate program aimed at spurring demand for insulation and water heaters — and jobs for hurting Americans.
Obama said the so-called Home Star program would reward people who buy energy-saving equipment with an on-the-spot [...]
Published: March 2, 2010
Tags: Clean Wisconsin, coal, U.S. Energy Information Administration
New data shows that while the nation’s coal consumption falls, Wisconsin increased its consumption of coal for power production by 1.1 percent between November 2008 and November 2009.
The nation’s consumption of coal dropped 9.3 percent in that same time span, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s February 2010 “Electric Power Monthly.” Wisconsin’s increase in [...]
Published: March 1, 2010
Milwaukee police say 5 arrested in deaths of 4
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee police have arrested five people in the homicides of two women and two children found dead after a fire at a Milwaukee duplex.
Police Chief Edward Flynn announced the arrests during a news conference Monday. The bodies of 23-year-old Rachel Thompson, 4-year-old Torian Thompson-Carter [...]
Published: March 1, 2010
Tags: Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, California Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, groundwater, marijuana traffickers, Mexican gangs, mountain streams, pollution, redwood forests, Sierra Nevada Mountains, U.S. public lands, Yosemite
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By Alicia A. Caldwell and Manuel Valdes
AP Writers
Sequoia National Forest, Calif. — Not far from Yosemite’s waterfalls and in the middle of California’s redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of marijuana plants and using smuggled immigrants to cultivate them.
Pot has been grown on public lands for decades, [...]
Published: March 1, 2010
Tags: credit, economy, Society for Human Resources Management
By KATHLEEN MILLER
Associated Press Writer
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — It’s hard to find a job in this economy, and now some people are facing another hurdle because potential employers are holding their credit histories against them.
Sixty percent of employers recently surveyed by the Society for Human Resources Management say they run credit checks on at least [...]
Published: March 1, 2010
Tags: Campbell Communications, economy, federal government, Fla., Greenwood King Properties, Homeowners, Houston, Inside Mortgage Finance, Moody's Economy.com, Mortgage Bankers Association, StarLight Realty, Tampa, tax credit, Tax Policy Center, unemployment
By Adrian Sainz
AP Real Estate Writer
It sounded like a great idea three months ago: Hand homeowners a $6,500 tax credit to find a new place to live, giving a thrust of energy to the housing market’s recovery.
So far, people are staying put.
In November, the federal government extended a tax credit of up to $8,000 for [...]
Published: March 1, 2010
Tags: Commerce Department, economy, GDP, income, National Association for Business Economics, spending
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Personal spending jumped by a larger amount than expected in January but Americans’ incomes barely budged as millions of Social Security recipients did not get their usual cost of living boost.
The weak income growth could depress spending in the months ahead, acting as a further drag on the [...]
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