In Our View: Closure
Texarkana Gazette - It took just 15 minutes for the backhoe to do its job. Starting before dawn on Friday, with spotlights illuminating the scene, the machine tore into the one-room wood-frame schoolhouse, quickly reducing it to a pile of rubble. Then the dump trucks . more.
Ethanol’s euphoria wanes
Palm Beach Post - Hoover thinks that the ethanol plant construction boom and resulting high equipment costs will be self-correcting. “It may take a year,” he said. “Our crystal ball is not very clear. We are not willing to sit and wait it out.” Matt Hartwig, spokesman . more.
Forum covers jobs, taxes (The Pratt Tribune)
Taxes, jobs, economic growth, education, agriculture, voting party lines and a host of other topics were some of the issues discussed at the legislative forum held Saturday morning at the Pratt Community Center. more.
Get off the couch for these ones
State News - Granholm has created the Jobs Today initiative to create jobs in construction work. Granholm has also created the Michigan First Health Care Plan, which would provide health care coverage to every Michigan resident. DeVos has created the Michigan . more.
City Explores Possible Speedy Completion To Hendricks Avenue Construction (First Coast News)
JACKSONVILLE, FL — Orange barrels, uneven lanes, and construction equipment. It?s what business owners along Hendricks Avenue have dealt with for the past eighteen months. more.
SKorea\’s Doosan Heavy buys Mitsui Babcock for 20 bln yen (Sharewatch)
Doosan said it will acquire all the shares in Mitsui Babcock in a transaction to be completed by the end of the year, securing ownership of advanced proprietary technologies for coal-fired boilers, core equipment in thermal power plants. more.
