August 27th, 2010
The race for two seats on the Arizona Corporation Commission was narrowed to four Tuesday night, with an incumbent commissioner and former commissioner looking like they would move on.
On the Republican ticket, current Commissioner Gary Pierce and former legislator Brenda Burns were taking the two spots available, keeping distance from former Commissioner Barry Wong in […]
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August 2nd, 2010
The Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation in Missouri awarded $51,479 to Independence Center, a nonprofit agency serving St. Louis-area adults with serious and persistent mental illnesses.
The grant will fund Independence Center’s wellness coaching project to educate participants on the need for physical activity and healthier lifestyle choices. The program is called Take Charge: […]
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July 26th, 2010
Duke Energy goes back to Indiana regulators next week looking for approval of a scaled-down proposal for smart grid operations in that state.
Despite the promise of more efficient energy use, greater reliability and new services, smart grid is often proving a tough sell. It certainly was in Indiana. In November, the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission […]
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July 20th, 2010
Bank of America Corp. shares dropped about 9% in trading Friday as the stock market ended the week on a sour note, reacting to concerns about big bank revenues and consumer pessimism.
Most major Charlotte-area stocks followed the Dow into negative territory. The Dow closed down 2.5 percent to 10,097, a drop of more than 261 […]
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July 4th, 2010
Pennsylvania's nine casinos brought in $1.19 billion in tax revenue for the just-ended 2009-10 fiscal year, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board said Friday.
For the month of June, slots revenue was up 8.2 percent from a year ago, to $98.2 million.
Since the opening of Pennsylvania's first slot machine casino in November 2006, the gaming board says […]
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July 2nd, 2010
Sequoia Partners led a third round of funding for solar power startup SunRun Inc., the company said Tuesday.
The Menlo Park venture firm was joined in the investment by existing investors Accel Partners of Palo Alto and Foundation Capital, also of Menlo Park.
The San Francisco solar company last week announced a $100 million investment from PG&E […]
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June 23rd, 2010
Two downtown St. Louis projects — The Laurel and the Park Pacific — have $108 million in AFL-CIO financing, and are expected to generate 1,111 union jobs, according to a report from the AFL-CIO.
Ted Chandler, chief operating officer of the union’s $3.7 billion Housing Investment Trust, said Monday that the projects "offer an […]
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May 3rd, 2010
Edgewood Partners Insurance Center, better known as EPIC, said Thursday it’s acquired Jeffrey Stephens Insurance Services, a San Rafael-based retail insurance brokerage.
Financial terms were not disclosed, nor was the exact size of the Marin brokerage.
EPIC said that founder/principal Jeffrey Stephens and his team will move to EPIC’s downtown San Francisco office, which it said now […]
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April 5th, 2010
A Michigan executive has entered a guilty plea in an Oregon court to charges that he participated in defrauding the U.S. government of more than $200 million in tax revenue.
John Parrott, entered his plea Thursday. Parrott is the former general counsel of Mt. Pleasant, Mich.-based GeoStar Corp., the parent of ClassicStar LLC.
ClassicStar offered wealthy individuals […]
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March 16th, 2010
Europe’s ongoing fiscal trauma may present opportunities for U.S. investors.
There could, for example, be possibilities in European stocks that are depressed in price or in stocks of the U.S. multinational companies most likely to gain from European misfortune.
The primary risk is that ongoing problems involving not only Greece but other […]
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