Despite a few yelps and yips along the way, city commissioners this week agreed, on a 5-0 vote, to form a special animal committee.
Federal regulators should stop relying solely on employers to honestly report work-related injuries and illnesses, experts said Thursday. Instead, they said, the government should also talk to workers and examine other data, such as hospital records, to see how many Americans are injured each year on the job. The remarks were made during a House Education and Labor Committee hearing held to ...
Saint Thomas Health Services has opted to end a 10-year run as the official health-care sponsor of the Nashville Predators, a move that comes amid a decline in sponsorship deals nationally as businesses re-examine the costs of sports marketing contracts in a weaker economy.
Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion revealed details of his party's $15.4-billion carbon tax plan Thursday, a proposal he pledged would be revenue neutral by offsetting the higher costs for burning fossil fuels with broad-based tax cuts.
The Florida Citrus Commission on Wednesday agreed to explore turning federal government lobbying duties over to Florida Citrus Mutual, the state's largest growers' representative, with the risk that the move could jeopardize the commission's taxing authority.
Lebanon and Mason could soon join Franklin in a study to examine the possibility of merging their municipal courts into one court under Warren County's control.
Recently, a senior distribution executive of a global hotel chain stated that the individual hotels have lost out on technology and support costs simply due to the fact that they are small businesses with limited scale.
BELVIDERE -- Budget ad hoc committee member Harold Hess applauded Town Council members for their diligent work on the 2008 municipal budget and for keeping costs inline while maintaining services. He urged council to continue tightening the belt to be ready for another challenging budget next year.
HARMONY -- After learning about the escalating costs of erecting new playground equipment, township officials agreed to conduct a study of the existing playground located in the fields next to the municipal building.
STAMFORD, Conn.----Archstone Consulting, a fast growing management consulting firm, revealed in a recent survey that manufacturing executives plan to use supply chain as a key mechanism to improve both top- and bottom-line performance, despite challenges of the current economic environment.