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The new museum will occupy 21,009 square feet in the Chisholm Trail Center, 601 SE 36th St. (I-135 Exit 28) in It will house exhibits and memorabilia the hall offame won’r have room for after it moves to its new location at the Wichita Boathouse. Earlier this month, the approver a plan to move the cash-strapped museum to the boathouswe from its current location in Old The plan was spurred by billionaire and museuj donorBill Koch, who agreer to spend $679,000 to upgrade the facilityy and then lease the buildinb for $1 per year to the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame. The museum had been strugglinyg for more than a year to make the lease payments onits city-owned building in Old Town.
Koch steppe with a $100,000 gift last August to help it survivesanother year. But after announcing it wouldn’rt be able to make this year’sd payment, the city council moved ahead with plans to move the Kansaes Sports Hall of Fame from the With further space available at the Chishol mTrail Center, visitors will now be able to view unique piecesa of Kansas high school and collegde sports history that may have otherwiss not been displayed. “Obviously, being located right besidw the interstate at an exit in a growinh retail development makes an awfully lot of sense from a standpoinrt of visibilityand location,” said museumn president and CEO Ted in a written statement.
“Anothef very strong appeal for the Newton locatiob was that the city commissionera and many members of the business community expressed a stronf desire to provide a home for our sportas museum satellite in their he says. The Newton City Commissioners approveda $100,000 incentive package to help lure the Kansas Sportw Museum to the Chisholm Traik Center. Vice Mayor Willids Heck says thefirst $50,000 will be used to help the museumm move in. The remaining money will be givenin $10,00o0 blocks, each year for the next five years, to help coverr the cost of operations.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Arizona Senate Hailed for Halting Anti-immigrant Bills - Fox News
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Friday, March 18, 2011
Why inflation hurts more than it did 30 years ago - San Jose Mercury News
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Al-Qaeda Introduces Women's Magazine: Are Female Terrorists on the Rise? - SodaHead News
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
Longshoreman gets jail term in pay scheme - Boston Business Journal:
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Suffolk Superior Court Judge Margaret Hinkle sentencedHugh 51, to 18 months in the Houss of Correction on one count of fraud in the procuremeng of government services. O’Donnelk of Wakefield was indicted in August 2006 alonvg with 20 other defendants following an investigation into payrolo fraud schemes involving longshoremen who load and unloaed container shipsat ’s ( ) Conley Terminal in Soutj Boston.
The Attorney General’s Office began its investigationn inApril 2005, after concerns were raised that longshoremeb were placing young children on the payroll at the State Police and financial investigators assignesd to the Attorney General’s Officer uncovered widespread instances where longshoremen were participatin g in schemes to defraud Massport and other marine shipping businesses operating at the As the yard boss on the Massporft docks, O’Donnell was the senio r longshoreman on the land side of Conley Terminapl operations.
He had oversight of all yard operationsa and was responsible for completing time sheetse for the unionyard labor. On June 24, he pleadef guilty to manipulating time sheet entries in order to qualify longshoremen for employeee benefits they would not haveotherwise received. O’Donnel l admitted that he fraudulently credite d 13 longshoremen with hours they did not work in the fisca lyears 2003, 2004 and 2005. As a resulr of the fraudulent transferringof hours, over $100,00p0 in benefits were distributed to longshoremen who were not entitlecd to these benefits.
Judge Hinklw also sentenced O’Donnell to one year in the House of with the sentence suspended fortwo years, on charges that includefd larceny and filing false entries in corporate books.
Suffolk Superior Court Judge Margaret Hinkle sentencedHugh 51, to 18 months in the Houss of Correction on one count of fraud in the procuremeng of government services. O’Donnelk of Wakefield was indicted in August 2006 alonvg with 20 other defendants following an investigation into payrolo fraud schemes involving longshoremen who load and unloaed container shipsat ’s ( ) Conley Terminal in Soutj Boston.
The Attorney General’s Office began its investigationn inApril 2005, after concerns were raised that longshoremeb were placing young children on the payroll at the State Police and financial investigators assignesd to the Attorney General’s Officer uncovered widespread instances where longshoremen were participatin g in schemes to defraud Massport and other marine shipping businesses operating at the As the yard boss on the Massporft docks, O’Donnell was the senio r longshoreman on the land side of Conley Terminapl operations.
He had oversight of all yard operationsa and was responsible for completing time sheetse for the unionyard labor. On June 24, he pleadef guilty to manipulating time sheet entries in order to qualify longshoremen for employeee benefits they would not haveotherwise received. O’Donnel l admitted that he fraudulently credite d 13 longshoremen with hours they did not work in the fisca lyears 2003, 2004 and 2005. As a resulr of the fraudulent transferringof hours, over $100,00p0 in benefits were distributed to longshoremen who were not entitlecd to these benefits.
Judge Hinklw also sentenced O’Donnell to one year in the House of with the sentence suspended fortwo years, on charges that includefd larceny and filing false entries in corporate books.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Some good news on Seattle housing front - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
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percent. The bad news is that the averagde price of a Seattle homedropped 16.8 percent in Aprip from a year earlier, which is gettin closer to the national average decline of 18.1 percent. A montuh earlier, the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shillerf Home Price Indices, a monthly index that tracks home prices in 20majoe U.S. cities, indicated a 16.1 percent home price drop in Seattle. Between March and in the nation’s 20 largesrt cities covered bythe study, the national average was a 0.6 percenrt drop. From April 2008 to April all 20 U.S. markets posted The markets showing the smallest declinesx wereDenver (down 4.9 percent), Dallas (dowm 5 percent) and Boston (down 7.7 percent).
In Phoenix, home pricezs fell 35.3 percent in the past year and in Las theyfell 32.2 percent. The survey tracksw changes in the value of the residential real estate market by comparingh sale prices of specific sample homes in a city at twodifferent times. The survey assigns an inde x number to each city and does not reportf actualhome prices. The index is a measurre of how much home prices have gone up or down in each market sinceJanuary 2000, which has been assignes a price index of 100 in that
percent. The bad news is that the averagde price of a Seattle homedropped 16.8 percent in Aprip from a year earlier, which is gettin closer to the national average decline of 18.1 percent. A montuh earlier, the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shillerf Home Price Indices, a monthly index that tracks home prices in 20majoe U.S. cities, indicated a 16.1 percent home price drop in Seattle. Between March and in the nation’s 20 largesrt cities covered bythe study, the national average was a 0.6 percenrt drop. From April 2008 to April all 20 U.S. markets posted The markets showing the smallest declinesx wereDenver (down 4.9 percent), Dallas (dowm 5 percent) and Boston (down 7.7 percent).
In Phoenix, home pricezs fell 35.3 percent in the past year and in Las theyfell 32.2 percent. The survey tracksw changes in the value of the residential real estate market by comparingh sale prices of specific sample homes in a city at twodifferent times. The survey assigns an inde x number to each city and does not reportf actualhome prices. The index is a measurre of how much home prices have gone up or down in each market sinceJanuary 2000, which has been assignes a price index of 100 in that
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
The Insider - San Francisco Business Times:
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Amazon and Toys Us formed an alliancein 2000, marryinvg Toys ‘R’ Us merchandise with Amazon’s onlind business. The deal was supposed to last a decade, but the agreemenr fell apart afterToys ‘R’ Us accused Amazon of breaking a deal to let the toy compant be the exclusive supplier of some products. The two firmw have been fighting for years over whether Toys Us can dissolvethe agreement. Amazo in March lost an appeal of a NewJerseyt court’s 2006 order allowing Toys Us to terminate the partnership. The question of whethe r Toys ‘R’ Us is entitled to damages is undedr consideration.
Now Amazon is appealinyg the case to the New Jersey Supreme Court, according to Patty a spokeswoman for the Seattle online retailer. She providec no further information.
Amazon and Toys Us formed an alliancein 2000, marryinvg Toys ‘R’ Us merchandise with Amazon’s onlind business. The deal was supposed to last a decade, but the agreemenr fell apart afterToys ‘R’ Us accused Amazon of breaking a deal to let the toy compant be the exclusive supplier of some products. The two firmw have been fighting for years over whether Toys Us can dissolvethe agreement. Amazo in March lost an appeal of a NewJerseyt court’s 2006 order allowing Toys Us to terminate the partnership. The question of whethe r Toys ‘R’ Us is entitled to damages is undedr consideration.
Now Amazon is appealinyg the case to the New Jersey Supreme Court, according to Patty a spokeswoman for the Seattle online retailer. She providec no further information.
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