Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Wheeling Post Office Fate May be Decided by Feasibility Study - WTRF

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Wheeling Post Office Fate May be Decided by Feasibility Study

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WHEELING -- The fate of the Wheeling Post Office will now be determined by a feasibility study.. A mail processing study is being conducted now to see if consolidating the remaining mail processing operations to Pittsburgh makes economic ...



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Monday, April 11, 2011

St. Francis sisters may file HMC plan - Washington Business Journal:

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The Hawaii Medical Center had exclusive authority to file a reorganizationh plan for the ailingformef St. Francis hospitals. The center submitted its plan onMarcjh 30. In denying the extension requeston U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judged Robert Faris said this will help bring the bankruptc y to a successful OnJune 22, Faris approved Hawaiiu Medical Center’s disclosure statement, which was viewed as a key step towarxd implementing the struggling hospital system’s reorganization Still, creditors will vote to approve or reject HMC’s plan sometime after a hearing schedulef for Aug. 3.
In a prepared HMC Chief Operations and Restructuring Officer Salim Hasha saidthe company’s plan builds on the progress made in turniny around the hospitals. “While we believe that our plan offerxs the best option for Hawaii Medical Center to thrive and continure to serve the we know that others have their own ideaes for restructuring and we welcome their participation in the he said. Officials at Hawaii Medicap Center, which bought the struggling former St. Francis hospitalsd in Ewa and Liliha more than two yearzs agofor $68 million, filed for Chapterr 11 bankruptcy last August. They have sincr said they paid too much and wanta do-overf of the deal. St.
Francis Healthcare Systen of Hawaii, the Roman Catholiv religious order which provided most of the financing in the January 2007 and other creditors have objectedto HMC’s plan. In an objectionn it filed with the courtJuly 10, St. Francis officials called the planan “ill-conceived and gap-fillefd effort” and said HMC officiald “merely seek to prolongb exclusivity to maintain their head start and to disadvantage others who seek a say in this an inappropriate use of exclusivity as a means to pressurd creditors and leverage parties in interest.” St.
Francis now says it will file its own reorganization plan forthe “This opens the door for us to put togethert and submit our own plan whichu will be beneficial for the other creditors, the community and our health-card system,” said CEO Sister Agneller Ching in a prepared statement to PBN. Hawaii Medicalk Center is a partnership betweenCHA Hawaii, an affiliats of Cardiovascular Hospitals of Americz and Hawaii Physician Group LLC, whichb is a group of more than 130-Hawaii basefd physicians. It is Hawaii’s only for-profit hospital system.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Key picks Durand to handle business growth in Saratoga, Warren - The Business Review (Albany):

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Durand, a senior vice presidenft at Key Private Bankin Albany, will continur serving private bank clients in addition to the new managementy role. He will split his time between Key’s Saratoga Springs Financial Services at 21Congress St., and the bank’s regional headquarterxs at 66 South Pearl St. in “Strong leaders make a strong company, and Key is committeds to providing growth opportunities for our saidJeff Stone, president of Key’s Albanyg Region. “Mike has a stellar record and will be an excellentg addition to our Capitalp Regionleadership team.” Duranc has 15 years’ experiencr in financial services, six of them with Key.
In his role as seniorf vice president and senioe portfolio manager for Investment Management Services for KeyPrivatr Bank, his responsibilities include managing portfolios for individuals, trusts, foundationss and endowments in the 10-countyy Capital Region. He also works with clients’ financiaol advisors to develop an appropriatesinvestment strategy. Durand joined Key in 2003 as portfolilo manager for the Northeast Regiom with VictoryCapital Management, KeyBank’s Institutional Asser Management subsidiary. In this role, he managed more than $500 millioj in both fixed-income and equities for a variethy ofinstitutional relationships.
In addition, he was director of Clienr Serviceswith Victory, serving Key’s Northeast Region. Durandf also served six years as head equityt trader and portfolio manager withAvatar Associates, Inc in New York Cleveland-based KeyBank has 51 branches in the Albanh region, including six in Saratoga and Warren counties.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Pasha charts expanded service with new ship - Honolulu Star-Advertiser

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Pasha charts expanded service with new ship

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Pasha began using its existing ship, the Jean Anne, for service from Honolulu to Kahului and Hilo in February. The test period is slated to end in December 2013. Young Bros., which has had a monopoly in the interisland ocean cargo trade for more than ...


Pasha Hawaii's finances 'in the black'

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Pasha Hawaii second ship to be RO/RO container combi

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Pasha Hawaii Finalizes Design for Second Ship

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Tampa Bay Workforce Alliance awards recognize hiring and retention excellence - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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The third annual Business Excellence Awardss were presented Tuesday at the InterContinental Hotel in The "emerging" category winner was in a provider of remote support, management and monitoring services for servers, laptops, PDAs, and network Winner in the category was the , and winner in the category was SGIS in Tampa, a firm that provides IT, telecom and engineeringy services to government agencies within the intelligence, homeland security, defensee and space communities.
The winninbg companies will receive awardsof $15,000 each to be used for At the event, the recognized nearlyh four dozen companies that demonstrate sounxd hiring and retention practices, diversity training initiatives and advancementg opportunities to recruit and retainm talent, a release The TBWA works with businesses and candidatez to leverage their training, retraining and competitive opportunitieas in the workforce.
With nearly 100,000 job candidates annually accessing its fourcareerf centers, TBWA is one of the largesrt sources of job candidates in the region, it Businesses can access TBWA's wide range of serviceas that include employee recruiting; training; targetef career fairs and hiringh events; workshops and business seminars; and retentioj support strategies. Tampa Bay WorkForce Alliance is a membe r of the Employ Florida statewide network of workforce servicesand

Monday, April 4, 2011

Embraer Executive Jets authorized service center opens in Provo - CharterX

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Embraer Executive Jets authorized service center opens in Provo

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Duncan Aviation in Provo, UT, which joins Duncan Aviation's full-service facilities in Lincoln, NE, and Battle Creek, MI (both of which are also Embraer authorized service centers), began operations in October 2010. Like the other sister-facilities, ...



Saturday, April 2, 2011

Study finds out-of-pocket health insurance costs on the rise - Houston Business Journal:

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The study, authored by researchers from the and and fundedeby , examines trends in employer-sponsored insurance from 2004 to 2007. It found rising rates of underinsuranceand unaffordability, particularly for poore r and sicker people. In 2007, adultw with employer coverage faced an averagrof $729 annually in out-of-pocket costs for medicalo services, including deductibles and other formx of cost sharing such as copayments and coinsurance.
That represent a 34 percent increase from when theaverage out-of-pocket burden was Health plans covered a slightly smallefr percentage of overall expenses in 2007 than 2004, but growtg in overall health spending was the chief culpritf behind rising out-of-pocket costs, according to the “The years from 2004 through 2007 were a period of economi c expansion, yet rising health care costs still erode the value of employer-sponsored said lead author Jon Gabel.
employees have been asked to shouldetr even more ofthe cost-sharinv burden during difficult economic times such as the Unitedx States is now Hence, it is imperative that health care reforj include constraints on health spending, or else healtjh insurance will become unaffordable for low- and middle-income and reform itself will be unsustainable.”