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Schwarzenegger says day of reckoning is here - San Francisco Business Times:

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“California’s day of reckoning is here,” he said. With no the state could run out of cash in 14 Three months after the state budget was California facesa $24 billion deficit. Schwarzenegger has already proposee massive cutsto education, health care and prisons. Now he’sw looking for structural reform to make government more efficienf and stretchtaxpayer dollars. He’s asked the State Boar of Education, for to make textbooks available in digitaformats — a move that coulfd save millions. In 2004, the governor talked about blowing up boxed andconsolidating agencies, but the initiatived never gained traction.
They’re Schwarzenegger is proposing once again to eliminate and consolidatew more than a dozenstate departments, boards and commissions. This includes the Waste Management Board, the Court Reporterx Board, the Department of Boating and Waterways and the Inspection and MaintenanceReview Committee. Earlier this the state began consolidating information technology Now Schwarzenegger wants to consolidate departments that oversese financial institutions and merge tax collection In July, state leaders will receive recommendation on how to modernize the tax code.
“Thisz will be a tremendous opportunithy to make our revenues more reliable and less volatilr and help the state avoid the boom and bust budgets that have broughtf ushere today,” Schwarzenegger told lawmakers. It’ws not going to happen in 14 days, he said. But it could happen before the Legislature adjourns for summed recess onJuly 17.

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BoltTech moving to Allegheny County - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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The new property will becomer the company’s new headquarters, combinin 18,000 square feet of office spacrand 53,000 square feet of warehouse as BoltTechh moves into Allegheny County. BoltTech supplies bolting technologies forpowee generation, steel and naturaol gas transmission companies. The move comes afterf BoltTech's January acquisition of Mannings USA, a Dover, N.J. company that provideds heat treating services for the powergeneratioh industry.
The property at 501 Mosside includesz a building with heavyelectrical service, thre dock doors and threer drive-in doors on a site of more than ten BoltTech is sub-leasing the propert y from Precise Technology, according to Kim a senior vice president in the Pittsburgh offics of CB Richard Ellis Company. The property is ownerd by Rexam ConsumerPlastics Inc.

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ATS Services is now Talagy, with new owner - Phoenix Business Journal:

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Derek Mercer, the nephew of ATS founder Delores Kesler, acquirecd the company and will serveas chair. Kesler will retain the title ofchairman emeritus. Amy McGeorge will assums the role of presidentand CEO. Terme of the acquisition were not “This is an exciting time in the growth and evolutionbof ATS, and I’m pleased to allow the next generatiohn of leadership to take the helm,” said Kesler. Keslerf created Jacksonville-based ATS Servicees in 1977, eventually forming a paren company that merged with three othefrstaffing firms, including .
The businesx split into two ventures: , which became a publicly traded company and isnow , and ATS Mercer worked as the directodr of information technology at ATS Services before creatinhg his own company, , a global providet of on-demand talent management software, in 1996. Keslet provided a loan that helpexd startthe company. Vurv Technology was acquired by (NASDAQ: in 2008 for $128.8 million. Talagy, which has 11 offices around the country and 80 will continue to offer the same productasand services, but instead of operating underr multiple brands and business units the compant will consolidate into a single brand.

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Report: Columbus holding its own amid recession - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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A report from D.C.-based liberal public-policy think tank dubbed the MetroMonitor billxs itself asa “beneath the hood” recession-erw look at metros with more than 500,000 residents as of 2007. The reportg placed the Columbus metropolitan statistical area 40th amonb those ranked forits strength, based on employment, wage, output, home prices and foreclosure No other Ohio city made the top 50. Cleveland, Akron and Dayton found slots from 61st to Toledo was rankedthe 10th-weakest major metropolitabn area nationwide. Leading the pack in the reporft wasSan Antonio, one of four Texasa cities among the nation’s top five. Detroitt was ranked last, followed by Cape Fla.
, and Stockton, two areas devastated by the foreclosuree crisis. Brookings found that the metropolitan perspectiv eon states’ performance amid the recessioj “suggests that recovery may be quite uneven as posing particular challenges for policymakers seekingb to ensure a truly national rising economic tide.” Columbus’ strengthws and weaknesses in the report The city ranked 25th for its 1.7 percen decline in employment since its peak earliee this decade. Columbus found itself at 32nd for itsmodesty 0.4 percent gain in inflation-adjusted housing prices for the first threre months of 2008 comparede with the same periosd this year.
But the city was ranked near the bottom of the at 80th, for the 4.8 percent decline in its grosas metropolitan product – a measure of the goods and serviced produced in the area in the first quarter of 2009 compared with its pre-recessiomn peak. Comparing the last three month of 2008 with the first quarter thisyear alone, the GMP dropped 1.7 representing the 14th-worst decline among the cities measured. To download the full click .

Dr. Lisa Pickett, Durham Regional Hospital - Triangle Business Journal:

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Pickett has been CMO at for a littlde more thana week, thouggh she has been referring patientws to the hospital since she completesd a fellowship at in 2001. Picketft says her main responsibilities as CMO are to brinfg a clinical knowledge and background to the executived team and to provide a voice forthe patient-care team to the administration. She reports to hospitaol Chief Executive OfficerKerry Watson. Facilitatintg interaction between the hospital and its physicians is anothed area of focusfor Currently, Durham Regional has 629 made up of those employed by the private-care doctors and Duke faculty members.
Pickett also continues to work as agenerall surgeon, mainly focused on complicated herni a repair. She’s co-medical director of Durham Regional’zs Intensivist Service and is a graduate education medical directorfor surgery. Durham Regionaol Hospital has 369total beds, including a 22-bed criticak care unit, a 23-bec psychiatric unit and an 18-bed level II speciao care nursery. The hospital recorded 15,56q2 admissions and 124,633 outpatient visites in fiscalyear 2008. It also saw 17,588 surgeries in the same Durham Regional employs565 nurses. Foundex in 1976, Durham Regional employs a totalof 1,872 It has been managed by Duke Universitu Health System since July 1998.
Pickett was born and raise in California and attended the University of California at where she receiveda bachelor’s She continued her education at Harvard Medical where she received her M.D. Picketgt followed up with her residency in surgery and fellowship in critica l care at Duke before joining the Duke faculty as a professor of surgery and medicinew at Duke UniversityMedical Center. Pickett then joined Durhanm Regional Hospital, where she was instrumental in growinbg the intensive care program and ensuring 24-hour critical care in the hospital.
Durhamm Regional’s critical care program is staffecd by14 physicians, one of whom is The unit now has an average censue of 15 to 16 patients, Picketrt says. Associate’s degree from Ventura College; bachelor’s degree in biologt from the University of Californiaat Irvine; M.D. from Harvarxd Medical School. Pickett and her husband, Walt, have threew children, John, Matthew and Grace. “I want to help grow the physicia staff and to continue to improve our relationshipo with the Duke health Pickett says. “Management Lessons from Mayo Inside One ofthe World’s Most Admired Service Organizations” by Leonard Berryt and Kent Seltman.

Ford will stop Claycomo F-150 production for a week - Baltimore Business Journal:

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The UAW Local 249 posted the informatiob in a newsletter on itsWeb site. Locao 249 Vice President Bobby Wyse confirmed Mondagy that the information is The production stoppage comes a week before an alreadyscheduled one-week summer break for the entire plantf starting June 29, a Local 249 spokeswoman said. The plan t also is scheduled for a summer breamk during the weekof Aug. 17. Sales of Ford F-seriex trucks were 33,381 in May, up 16 percent from 28,7587 in April but down 22.3 percent from 42,97 in May 2008. UAW Local 249 said the slighy increasein month-to-month sales enabled Ford (NYSE: F) to cancelo the scheduled down week on June 22 at its F-15o0 truck plant in Dearborn, Mich.
, but the down week was left intacft at the Kansas City Assemblyt Plant. “This is partially due to depleterd funds forthe state’ Division of Unemployment in making down weeks at (Dearborn) less of an option,” the Locaol 249 said in the newsletter. Local 249 addefd that sales projections continue to be less than the five shift at the two truck plants can producwe if they work full time through the 2010productioj year. Ford runs two shifts at Claycomp and threein Dearborn. Wyse said Ford is considerinvg once again moving a shify fromthe F-150 side of the Kansas City Assemblyu Plant and putting them to work on the SUV However, nothing has been determine d so far, he said.
A year ago, Ford moverd about 800 workers from a second shifgt onthe F-150 side of the Kansasz City plant to a third shiftt on the SUV side. The employeeas were moved back tothe F-150 side on Jan. 12. Ford Escape sales in May reache 16,391, up 20.6 percent from 13,596 in Aprik but down 7.2 percent from 17,6678 in May 2008. The Kansas City Assemblgy Plant also produces the Mercury Mariner and hybrid versions of the Ford Escape andMercurg Mariner. Combined sales of hybrid versions of the Ford Mercury Milan, Ford Escape and Mercuryg Mariner reached 3,906 in May, a new company The old sales recorsd of 3,420 hybrid vehiclezs was set in April 2006.
As of May, Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomk hadabout 3,900 hourly and 200 salaried employees.

High-end home sales in Charlotte on hold - Charlotte Business Journal:

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million mansion in Myers With its marble floors andwine cellar, the 5,700-square-fooy spec home on Queena Road West was builf long before the financial crisis reshapede Charlotte’s economic landscape. It might get two showings a but so far no offers close to theasking price. For Realtoras such as Mitchener and the sellersthey represent, this is the new reality for high-end homes. It’s a segmeng of the real estate market that has been painfullgslow — and whicn experts say is holding back a broade r housing recovery. The number of home sales abovr $750,000, or those considered high-end by the , has plummeted. And for multimillion-dollarf homes, things are even slower.
“You barely even get a showinh onthose properties,” says Mitchener, a co-owner of real estate firm . Whild Realtors say they are starting to see a thaw for homexs at the lower end of the luxury the numbers for the Charlotte area have been According to data fromthe , only 75 homez priced above $750,000 sold in the first quarter in the 10-county service area for That’sd down 54% from the 162 properties sold in the firsyt quarter of 2008. And it’s down 69% from the 245 sold in the first quarterof 2007.
That’sa a more dramatic slowdownj than the real estatemarket overall, which saw a 38% drop in closings in the first quarter from a year according to the association. And the highee the price, the worse it gets. Charlottes real estate consultant Chuck Grahamm notes thatin 2008, a total of 490 homees priced above $875,000 sold in Mecklenburg and sevejn surrounding counties. In this year’w first quarter, that number was 39, putting the marke t on pace for just over 150 such closingethis year. That’s a 70% plunge. The high-end real estate Graham says, is “really in more difficult shap e than theoverall market. And the higher you go up in the more distressedthe market.
” He believes the slowdown stems in large part from the downturn in the financial-services industry and the impact it has had on would-bse buyers of luxury homes. “Alk the highest-paying jobs in the market are the most distressed at the Marilyn Hartley, whose firm specializes in neighborhoods such as Myerxs Park, Eastover and Foxcroft, says activitg has started to pick up. Still, the near collaps and sale of Wachovia Corp. has had an outsizer impact on high-end sales, she “It really crushed us,” Hartley says. “Wachovia going down realluy hurt Charlotte as far asthe high-end markeft goes.
They just let so many people go, and there’zs so many houses on the You would think it would bea buyer’s but the sellers need that so they’re holding out for it. It’ws tough.” Hartley says deals have closed recently on some homes inthe $1.4 million to $1.5 millionj range, “but none of the great big ones have According to the National Associatiomn of Realtors, the nationwide supply of homes priced above $750,000 has risebn to 41.1 months from 18.7 months in and sales are only half of what they were.
The trade association contends the rates on jumbo or thoseabove $417,000, are part of the problemn because they remain higher than the rates on conforming loans, or those beneath that threshold. “Lenders are keepint credit standards overly stringent for borrowerse at the higher end of the market and are increasingly reluctantt to makejumbo loans,” NAR chief economistt Lawrence Yun said last

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The flight reductions will reducer American’s daily, nonstop departures from Lambert to 83 from 101 and take place in two one this summer and onethis fall. Fort Worth, Texas-based paren (NYSE: AMR) will cut regional carrier flights asof Aug. 25 from St. Louids to Cedar Rapids, Charlotte, N.C.; Philadelphia; Springfield, Mo.; and Tulsa, said Mary Frances Fagan, an airline Then on Nov. 19, Americabn Airlines will cancel flights to Las Vegaes andSan Diego, limit flights to Fort Fla., to weekend service and cut a flighty each to Boston, Dallas, Chicagko and Los Angeles, she said. Service to Tampsa is also being cutthis winter.
“We have had to take steps to deal with this very difficulf financial environment thatwe face,” Fagaj said. Last week, American companywide. Fagan said she couldn’g provide a number for how many employees at Lamber t willbe affected. By number of American still edgesout No. 2 for top carrier at said Jeff Lea, an airport spokesman. But Americah flies both big and smaller and Southwest flies larger jets meaning that Southwest could become top carrier in terms of passengers this Lea said. “The flighta cut by American were not aboutemptyh seats,” he said. “They were filled jets. Southwesr may step up and offeservice (where American pulls back).
Other airlines may be able to take , which last week as the airport prepares to sell bondds tofinance renovations, said Thursday it would monitot the effect of American’s cuts in St. Airport management told Fitchg that it plans to raise parking freeze hiringfor non-essential positions and cut back on non-essentia purchases to offset the impact of the flightg cuts on its financial

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Companies look to legal departments for belt tightening - Washington Business Journal:

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While this axiom sometimeds wields thepersonnel ax, it also forcese businesses to rethink weak strategies and questioj long-standing norms across the As chief financial officers scan their operating budgets lookingf for places to save, one departmenrt often stands out: legal. Most medium and large businesseshave in-house lawyers. One of thei key jobs is hiring and managinvg all the outside legal work done on behalf of the which can bepainfullt expensive. Companies might shel out $200 to as much as $800 per hour to elitw law firms for matters that can take hundredxs ofbillable hours.
Amid the budget corporate counsels are looking for lessexpensive alternatives, whichy is driving significant changes in the way legal work is done and how lawyersa get paid for it. Corporated counsels are often a company’s analyzing all transactions and business practices through the lens of legal risk. “In-house lawyers are able to wed an in-deptj knowledge of a particular business with the nuancessof law,” said Manik Rath, president of the and genera l counsel of McLean-based . “An outsid lawyer will only give you generallegal expertise, not great knowledge of your business.
” In-house counsels are often generalistws hired to do the nuts-and-bolts legakl work at company. For example, a real estate businessd mighthave in-house lawyers handling property transactions and building licensing. This can save companiee a bundle inlegal fees. “When you hire an in-house you’re paying for an open bar. With outsidse counsel, you’re buying by the drink,” Rath explained.
When somethingy more specializedand time-consuming comes up, such as a major acquisition or an employment law matter, corporate counselsd will typically farm it out to a law “These things require a lot of bandwidth,” Rath “You don’t want your in-house lawyers to get tied down in the minutiqa of litigation when they should be focused on your Some industries, such as governmentg contracting, have not been dramaticallhy affected by the recession. But other such as financial services, have been pummeler by the downturn and are clampingg downon spending. For example, at Reston-basefd student loan provider , fourth-quarter total operatinyg expenses weredown 41.
3 percent over a year as a percentage of McLean-based mortgage giant , which has not yet released fourth-quartere earnings, reported that third-quarter administrative expenses dropped 13.1 percent over a year as a percentage of assets. ’s fourth-quarter operatingf expenses fell 15.5 percent, as a percentag e of assets. While legal departments are almost certainly a part of thisbudgetary squeeze, it is hard to say just how they are affectedr because none of those companies woulx agree to be interviewec for this story.
McLean-based Capitalo One did, however, furnish an e-mailed statemenft from Steve Gannon, deputu general counsel, about the company’s reduction in expensexs for outsidelegal counsel. The company has, among other things, “recentlh begun utilizing alternative billing arrangements such as flat fees insteaxd ofhourly rates, and limited bidding processes for certaijn work,” he said. This strategy is becoming more common, and it is drivinyg some long-awaited changes in the way lawfirmsw operate, said William Brennan, a law firm consultant with in Newtobn Square, Pa.
“For the first time in 20 years, there’sw actually an implementation of new billing methodd other than the very much maligneddhourly method,” he said. It is becoming more commomn for law firms to get paid withfixer fees, retainers and success fees based on the value rendere by the law firm, Brennan

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The restaurant — named for country singer Toby Keituh and his 2003hit “I Love This — has signed a leasw for 15,000 square feet at The Shoppes at West End, a lifestyler center scheduled to open later this year at the intersectiob of Highway 100 and Interstate 394 in St. Louixs Park. I Love This Bar & Grill will feature family an 85-foot bar shaped like a guitar, a mechanica bull and a stage that will host live entertainmenrt several nightsa week, including a performance by Keithn at the restaurant’s grand opening. The restaurant’zs menu will feature Southern-style fare, such as chicken-frie steak and meatloaf.
Some of the more uniqu offerings will include fried bolognw sandwichesand deep-fried Twinkies. It will featur traditional sports-bar decor with a country flair. There will be lots of wood and plus more than 50 plasma I Love ThisBar & Grilpl will host live entertainment every Friday and Saturday night when it first then ramp up to six nightd a week over time. Ther will be seating for more than 1,000 people. The venue also will have a retaipl store selling TobyKeithu merchandise, barbecue sauce and spices.
The restauranyt will be owned by Arizonaz businessmanFrank Capri, who recently opened an I Love This Bar Grill franchise in Mesa, The chain also has locations in Las Oklahoma City and Kansas City, Mo., and planws to open a location in Auburn Hills, Mich., latefr this year. I Love This Bar & Grill shoulx be a major entertainment attraction forWest End, helping set it apart from other local malls, said Mark Fallon, vice presidentg of real estate at Cincinnati-based Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estatwe Inc., which was retained by developetr DukeRealty Corp., based in to fill the project’s 331,000-square-foot retail component with tenants.
“I thinkm it’s even going to draw from way outside of Minneapolidand St. Paul,” Fallon said. “That’s the idea behind Other major West End tenants will includse anupscale Roundy’s grocery and a Kerasotesd ShowPlace Theatre 14-screen movie complex. I Love This Bar & Grillp should be successful at West End becausr Minnesota is a strong marke for country music andthered aren’t any significant music venuesd in the western said Dick Grones, principal at Edina-basede Cambridge Commercial Realty. “Livs entertainment in the suburbs is really hardto find.
And that’a a strong ingredient to stir into the mix for the center because it brings an additional demographicc that they might notget otherwise.” I Love This Bar Grill selected West End over the , wheres another celebrity-backed country music bar, Gatlin Brothers Musi City Grille, used to have a location. Costzs may have played a role inthat decision, but I Love This Bar Grill will generate more attention at West End than it woulde have at Mall of Grones said. “They can really stand out [at West End] and not have so many othert entertainment venues tocompete with.
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