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Sunday, May 20, 2012
Once-routine tariff bills now troublesome for Congress
For decades, lawmakers helped home-state manufacturers lower the cost of imported materials by crafting tiny bills that reduced or eliminated tariffs on products that range from massive factory equipment to vats of industrial-strength chemicals. Legislative session gets a C- this year
As the academic school year comes to a close, students are receiving grades based on performance in the classroom over the course of the semester or year. Medicare quality ratings under fire
Critics, including the Government Accountability Office and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, question whether the $8 billion-plus program is mostly rewarding mediocre patient quality. Labor office now in Redding
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division has opened a field office in Redding to ensure compliance with federal wage and hour laws. Southwest Florida companies under pressure to label employees correctly, have insurance coverage
Couple in their 90s celebrating 69 years of marriage take to the air in a 1940s-era biplane for a... Penalties issued in Florida * FY 2008-09: $49 million * FY 2009-10: $46 million * FY 2010-11: $39 million Penalties issued in Lee * FY 2008-09: $4.3 million * FY 2009-10: $1.9 million * FY 2010-11: $2.9 million Penalties issued in Collier * FY ... (more) Corporate chaplain stays true to faith
Nate Schroder talks with billing specialist Melissa Dalton at Guardian Pharmacy in St. Cleanup goal: Lure investors
The view, looking north from the Martha Street viaduct, shows the intersection of 26th and Dorcas Streets last week. Warm spring creates moldy mess for flood victims
Warren Ruda / The Citizens' Voice Mold grows on a wall inside 158 Canal St. in Shickshinny. EPA warns Alaska mine could devastate rivers
The Environmental Protection Agency is warning that plans for a massive mine in the hills above Bristol Bay in Alaska - home of the biggest sockeye salmon fishery in the world - could have devastating consequences for rivers and streams and wipe out habitat for fish. Inland 'cooperating fully' with SEC investigators, chairman says
The nation's largest nontraded real estate investment trust, the $11.2 billion Inland American Real Estate Trust Inc., is working through a fact-finding investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and intends to replicate last year's dividend of 50 cents a share. SEC seeks information after 450 MN Chipotle employees fired
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a subpoena to Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. GSK-owned Stiefel Labs loses $1.5M verdict in stock value suit
Stiefel Laboratories has lost a $1.5 million jury verdict to a former employee who claimed the company bought back his stock at artificially low prices before its acquisition in 2009 by GlaxoSmithKline Timothy Finnerty won the judgment on May 16 in federal court in Miami against Stiefel and its former chief executive officer, Charles Stiefel. |
