Invitation-Only Shale Forum Takes Place Today
Monday, March 11, 2013YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio --The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber will join with three statewide organizations to present a program this afternoon to bring together business and community leaders to discuss opportunities and challenges from shale development and ways to ensure a long-term sustainability of economic progress.
Internships Are First Step in Desired Careers
Monday, March 11, 2013YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- If there is a route to winning the first full-time job of your choice -- one that launches your career -- it is the internship.
Six young business executives reinforced this point during a recent seminar at the Williamson College of Business Administration.
Ohio Gas Prices Fall 12.3 Cents in Past Week
Monday, March 11, 2013YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Average retail gasoline prices in Ohio have fallen 12.8 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.56 per gallon Sunday, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 5,345 gas outlets in Ohio. This compares with the national average that has fallen 3.2 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.66 per gallon, reports the website GasBuddy.com.
Index Finds US Workers More Confident about Economy
Monday, March 11, 2013NEW YORK -- The Randstad Employee Confidence Index rose 1.4 points in February to 53.5, suggesting that U.S. workers are a bit more upbeat about the economy and the job market. The index, which each month tracks U.S. workers' perspectives about the availability of jobs and the economy, finds that 30% of workers believe the economy is growing stronger and nearly a quarter say more jobs are available.
Ohio Raises Minority Business Office to Division Status
Monday, March 11, 2013COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Development Services Agency has elevated the Minority Business Office to the status of a full division. As such, it will report directly to the director of the agency and re-establish its own funding line item in the agency budget.
'3 Minutes With' U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio
Monday, March 11, 2013YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- In today's "3 Minutes With" video U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, discusses President Obama’s acknowledgement of the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute in his State of the Union Address, the ongoing budget battles in Washington and their potential impact on NAMII. Brown visited NAMII Friday (READ STORY).
YSU Grad to Discuss ‘Entrepreneurship Tango’ March 20
Monday, March 11, 2013YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Youngstown State University graduate Patricia Mishic, vice president and chief marketing officer for A. Schulman Inc., will deliver a luncheon lecture at 12:15 p.m. March 20. Her presentation, “Dancing the Corporate Entrepreneurship Tango: Lessons Learned,” is part of the Williamson Symposium Lecture Series.
Open sessions with Mishic will be held at 2 and 6 p.m. in the auditorium of Williamson Hall.
NAMII's Work Draws Brown, 'Influx' of R&D Inquiries
Saturday, March 09, 2013YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Staff at the new National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute here are still catching up from the requests the downtown center received following President Obama's acknowledgement during his State of the Union Address a month go.
Wellsville Intermodal Park Ramps Up with Shale
Saturday, March 09, 2013WELLSVILLE, Ohio -- The village of Wellsville is eager to realize the benefits from a year of growth at the Wellsville Intermodal Facility and the rapid emergence of the oil and gas industry in Columbiana County.
So says Randy Allmon, president of the Wellsville Area Chamber of Commerce.
Last year was “a little better” than 2011, Allmon says, with chamber membership increasing 10% annually the last few years. But with a few local businesses shutting their doors in 2012, he says the village is ready for a surge of the growth based on the industrial park.
Brown Tours NAMII, Calls for National Network
Friday, March 08, 2013YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, today took his first tour through the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute downtown and called for the creation of a National Network for Manufacturing Innovation so that the United States can out-innovate the rest of the world while creating thousands of high-paying, high-tech manufacturing jobs.