By Adrian Burns, Business First of Columbus – July 31, 2009 Columbus-area consumers are spending less in a down economy and it’s pinching the finances of the Central Ohio Transit Authority. COTA has seen its portion of sales tax revenue, its main funding source for operations, fall $2 million short of expectations to $51.6 million [...]
By Felicity Barringer, The New York Times – July 29, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO — Returning to their ranch-style house in Sacramento after a long summer workday, Jon and Kim Waldrep were routinely met by a wall of heat. “We’d come home in the summer, and the house would be 115 degrees, stifling,” said Mr. Waldrep, [...]
By Matthew L. Wald, The New York Times – July 30, 2009 WASHINGTON — New-car shoppers appear to have already snapped up all the $1 billion that Congress appropriated for the “cash for clunkers” program, leading the Transportation Department to tell auto dealers Thursday night to stop offering the rebates. But a White House official [...]
By Dan Eaton, Business First of Columbus – July 26, 2009 The federal government is ready to put $1 billion into the hands of car buyers in the next four months through its cash-for-clunkers program, but industry observers expect there to be money left over come Nov. 1. “This will disappoint a lot of consumers,” [...]
By Michael Scott, The Plain Dealer – July 28, 2009 Ohio is heading for a future with more heat waves, more flooding, reduced crop yields and a diminishing Lake Erie to its north if the United States does not significantly curb heat-trapping emissions, the Union of Concerned Scientists claimed this morning in a news release. [...]
Manufacturing & Technology eJournal – July 28, 2009 (Oberlin and North Ridgeville, Ohio) – Alternative energy tech manufacturer Greenfield Solar Corp. is planning almost $10 million in expansions at its two sites here, a move expected to create 200 jobs. The company was recently awarded two 60 percent job creation tax credits by the state [...]
Press Release (Ohio Board of Regents) – July 28, 2009 COLUMBUS — Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric D. Fingerhut today announced the launch of Ohio Green Pathways, a collaboration of the University System of Ohio and the Ohio Environmental Council (OEC) designed to link education and training with green industry jobs in Ohio. It [...]
Business First of Columbus – July 28, 2009 Columbus companies’ struggles amid the recession are putting their stamp on the city’s office vacancy rate, according to a new report from real-estate broker Colliers Turley Martin Tucker. The firm, an arm of global firm Colliers International, reported Tuesday that Columbus’ vacancy rate grew in the second [...]
Business First of Columbus – July 27, 2009 Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and seven other governors of Midwestern states are joining together to make sure a chance to snag federal stimulus money for a regional rail network doesn’t pass them by. Strickland and leaders of Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Minnesota and Indiana on Monday [...]