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"Mike Wilson Out, Abrams In at Home Builders Association"
Sunday, December 19, 2004"BOARDMAN, Ohio -- A new direction for the Home Builders/Remodelers Association of Mahoning Valley means a new face at the top, with the resignation of longtime executive director Mike Wilson.Replacing Wilson as executive director is Terry Abrams, who joined HBA six years ago as marketing director and later became deputy executive director. In a statement released last week, the HBA board of directors announced it has set "a new course," beginning in 2005, as a "volunteer-driven organization" to reduce expenses.
77% of Inner City Jobs Held by Non-Inner City Residents
Sunday, December 19, 2004"BOSTON -- The vast majority of jobs in America's economically distressed inner cities -- 77% -- are not held by inner city residents, but rather by commuters from surrounding areas, according to the latest installment of an ongoing study released recently by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. The "State of the Inner City Economies" is the first national look at the economic performance and potential of inner cities as economies.
Judge Urges Compromise on WCI Plans
Friday, December 17, 2004WARREN, Ohio -- WCI Steel Inc. will have to wait a little longer before a decision is made regarding the company's plans to reorganize and emerge from bankruptcy protection.U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Marilyn Shea-Stonum filed an opinion late Wednesday concerning two proposed reorganization plans that were previously presented to the court. The opinion urges the parties use the next several weeks to forge a single compromise plan for the court to consider. According to the opinion, neither plan meets all of the legal requirements for the court's approval.
New Water Line Will Supply GM's Expansion
Friday, December 17, 2004LORDSTOWN, Ohio -- Ground will be broken this afternoon for a new water line that will serve General Motors' Lordstown complex, the last of four requirements the automaker needed to guarantee the assembly plant and metal center would continue operating.The new 24-inch water line will run from the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District plant in Mineral Ridge to the center of Lordstown Village six miles away and will be a redundant water source for the GM complex, said Ron Barnhart, planning administrator for the village.In the past, the assembly plant, which consumes 2 million gallons of water a day
Mahoning Treasurer Cuts Year-end Statements
Friday, December 17, 2004YOUNGSTOWN -- With the failure of the half-percent sales tax in November, Mahoning County Treasurer John Reardon said he has to eliminate sending year-end tax statements in 2004 to property owners who pay their tax through mortgage escrow companies.In past years, approximately 35,000 statements have been sent in December to taxpayers who did not receive that year's regular biannual tax bills, because their real estate tax was included in their monthly mortgage payments then paid to the treasurer on their behalf by the mortgage company.
Fighting Payment Card Fraud: It's Your Business
Friday, December 17, 2004ATLANTA -- Every year, millions of dollars of merchants' profits are lost due to fraudulent activities. For a business owner, losing any amount of money to fraud is too much. The good news is that improved awareness can go a long way in preventing most fraud, says Jerry Iannacci, risk and investigation director for Global Payments Inc."You and your staff are the best defense against payment card fraud," he says.
Public Gets First Glimpse of New GM Paint Shop
Friday, December 17, 2004LORDSTOWN, Ohio -- What one union official calls the "bread and butter" of General Motors Corp.'s Lordstown Complex was unveiled for the first time today, as the public got its first glimpse inside the plant's massive new paint shop, expected to be in operation by mid-2005."This secures our future," said James Kaster, president of United Auto Workers of America Local 1714, which represents about 1,000 hourly workers at the complex's nearby Metal Center. "Everyone knows what's at stake here.
Colleagues Lend Show of Support for Vindicator Strikers
Friday, December 17, 2004By George NelsonYOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- It might not generate much in the way of heat, but the slip of paper Warren 2nd Ward Councilman Al Novak tossed into the burning barrel -- a Vindicator subscription renewal card -- certainly had to warm the hearts of the hundred or so striking Vindicator workers and supporters who gathered at noon today outside the newspaper's offices."These people need to realize all of the talent they have here and the hard workers that they have here," Novak said at a rally held this afternoon in front of the newspaper's offices.
Colleagues Lend Show of Support for Vindicator Strikers
Thursday, December 16, 2004"By George NelsonYOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- It might not generate much in the way of heat, but the slip of paper Warren 2nd Ward Councilman Al Novak tossed into the burning barrel -- a Vindicator subscription renewal card -- certainly had to warm the hearts of the hundred or so striking Vindicator workers and supporters who gathered at noon today outside the newspaper's offices."These people need to realize all of the talent they have here and the hard workers that they have here," Novak said at a rally held this afternoon in front of the newspaper's offices.
Fighting Payment Card Fraud: It's Your Business
Thursday, December 16, 2004"ATLANTA -- Every year, millions of dollars of merchants' profits are lost due to fraudulent activities. For a business owner, losing any amount of money to fraud is too much. The good news is that improved awareness can go a long way in preventing most fraud, says Jerry Iannacci, risk and investigation director for Global Payments Inc."You and your staff are the best defense against payment card fraud," he says.