Driving change in Washington

By Sarah van Schagen As the nation turns its attention toward the big Inaugural events next week, Washington Governor Chris Gregoire (D) ... alternative-energy equipment in government facilities. Gregoire also hopes to create 20,000 new jobs in the next two years. There's no word on exactly how many of those are "green jobs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 01:13:21

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Autodesk: where's the money going? | CGenie - Professional CG Textures

Autodesk, the monolith of the CG world has announced 750 jobs cuts and expects to make a fourth quarter loss in 2008 of 5 cents to 12 cents per share ... their opportunities dry up as construction spending declines. And if there's no work for them, then there's no reason to continue to expand or upgrade their arrays of software licences. So the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 00:09:48

NEW YORK CITY CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL APPOINTS NEW PRESIDENT - Jack Ahern, the business manager of Operating Engineers local 30

from CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS:Jack Ahern: Organizing his worldNYC Central Labor Council head will work to protect jobs, ... has successfully negotiated hundreds of contracts for the 4,000-member Queens-based local, including ... officials together last year following several high-profile construction accidents.“He knows people [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 23:32:41

Stimulating!

Stimulating! The US House unveiled an $825 billion, two-year stimulus plan today, crafted by the Obama transition team and House Democrats ... on that investment. Scientific Research • National Science Foundation: $3 billion, including $2 billion ... of higher education and other scientists, $200 million to repair and modernize science and engineering [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 02:06:19

Posts about Home Sales as of January 20, 2009

Snow! - blakkatz.com 01/20/2009 We got a dusting of snow last night.  It’s pretty.  I haven’t seen snow in several years now ... the tax commission’s reform package up or down - with no floor amendments in the House … from the home ... 7 Ferry Rd., Fort Walton Beach FL Short Sale You can make this Fort Walton Beach house a home… [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 14:27:32

Infrastructure Spending as Stimulus

From Nobel laureate Gary Becker:Some of this infrastructure spending may be very worthwhile-I return to this issue a bit later- but however merited, ... of the health sector, for example, will add jobs to this sector, but it will do this mainly by drawing people into the health care sector who are presently employed in jobs outside this sector [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 12:03:00

DrumBeat: January 16, 2009

Venezuela Says $70 Oil Needed to Maintain Investments (Bloomberg) -- Oil prices need to rise to about $70 a barrel to sustain investment in fields and avoid shortages, Venezuelan Energy and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said. The South American country is discussing prices with other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 13:53:03

The Mother of All Pork Bills

The Mother of All Pork Bills Posted by: Wordsmith @ 6:00 pm in Congress, Economy, Obamanomics, Politics Viewed 271 times, 163 so far today [ ... ) told reporters Wednesday the package needed a single focus: “Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs.” “It must create jobs immediately, and it must contribute to the long-term stability of our economy to continue [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 02:00:46

It’s a Brand New Day

OBAMA AGENDA: ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   The energy challenges our country faces are severe and have gone unaddressed for far too long ... millions of new jobs. The Obama-Biden comprehensive New Energy for America plan will: Help create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 03:38:36

The Conflict Between Our Worker vs. Our Consumer Roles

  One of the deepest potential conflicts in every society is the conflict between the roles we have as workers versus consumers ... , teachers at inner-city schools, and certain kinds of construction workers.   I have great difficulty ... system, a set of jobs that have highly-defined duties that do not allow for, or reward, creativity [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 01:27:06

A Stimulus Tip

Hugh Hewitt makes a suggestion. Am I hallucinating, or does this actually make sense? ... the construction of the dozens of new nuclear power plants this country needs, as well as the wind turbines ... he be creating thousands and thousands of great jobs, he'd be powering the U.S. up for a second [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 23:20:00

How to invest in infrastructure spending

There has been a lot of talk recently that the one way we can get out of this severe recession would be to put people to work, ... is just about everything around us, including roads, bridges, schools, buildings, mass transit, water projects [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 19:19:39

UAE expats 'feel the pinch' - report

UAE expats 'feel the pinch' - report Personal Finance Confidence survey shows that concerns over the cost of living have grown amid global credit crisis. Thousands of jobs under threat in Kuwait Financial Markets Problems with the Kuwait Stock Exchange could see 27,000 lose their jobs - MP warns. Burj Dubai set to open September [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 07:05:08

How to spend $550 billion

Finally: The House Appropriations Committee provides a first draft of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan: ... billion to repair public housing and make key energy efficiency retrofits. $6 billion to weatherize ... for clean water, flood control, and environmental restoration investments; $10 billion for transit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 09:50:36

Episode 44: A New Hope

Ronald Reagan and many other republicans thought his one liner was hilarious:The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I’m from the government and I’m here to help.'The thing is that many Americans over the years were very happy to hear those words, and now many more long to hear them once again [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 06:01:00

What will Obama administration mean for cities?

by Susan Phillips, WHYY News Today’s Inauguration of Barack Obama has Philadelphians hoping for better economic times ... s promised financial aid to cities. Construction worker Jallah Kroma: “Let us keep working. Let the recession start somewhere else.  We don’t want it down here.” Kroma is a construction worker helping [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 22:51:04

The Sun is Rising in the East Again!

Obama Poised to Become 44th U.S. PresidentReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama was poised to make history on Tuesday as the first black U.S. president, buoyed by surging public confidence for dealing with the biggest economic headaches in 70 years, two wars and a web of other international problems [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 12:53:00

The Consequences Of Post Housing Bubble Policy

Readers added to my topic suggestion on policy. “There is a housing bubble question regarding the government and central bank that needs to be addressed at this point in time. What are the consequences of post housing bubble policy?” “It is well known that Japan had twin manias in both stocks and real estate in the 80’s [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 15:14:07

In Which Your Blogging Host Boldly Suggests Inaugural Speech Inserts

Here are some things that I'd like to hear in tomorrow's inaugural speech. In the interest of restraint, I've listed only a couple of things that I'd like to hear Obama say. Imagine this in his voice.-----------It is of little use to have a great house in a dangerous and ugly neighborhood [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 01:05:00

Economic Stimulus Bill

As we read or hear on the web, in the paper, on television, or over the radio, the 111th Congress recently convened, ... enacting an economic stimulus package for "shovel-ready" jobs, i.e., library construction/renovation ... construction/renovation needs. Please complete the short survey at the following linked site [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 20:40:00

10 Percent Renewable Energy by 2012

Congrats again to President Obama and Vice President Biden on their ascent to the highest powers in the lands ... will: Help create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next ten ... of Oil and Natural Gas. Create Millions of New Green Jobs Ensure 10 percent of Our Electricity [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 05:25:57

The Endgame

The Endgame by John Mauldin January 17, 2009 • Employment Numbers Are Worse Than Posted • Aye, Captain, I’m Giving Her All I’ve Got! • Problem #1: Deflation • Problem #2: Pushing on a String • The Muddle Through Middle • Conversations With John Deflation? Stimulus? Deleveraging? Recession? A soft depression? A return to a bull market? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 02:04:12

Inaugural speech chew over time

The funny thing about The One’s speech today is that it reads better than it was spoken ... to home. The construction never ends. “Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 01:03:42

Homelessness, Incarceration, and the Future

For more than two decades, I’ve struggled with creating an approach to homeless advocacy and organizing that does the issue justice. Over this time, there are four truths that have become more than obvious.One: Homelessness is about the problem of surplus people in a global economy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 03:43:00

Design And Construction Of A Pipeline construction Jobs

Management for any return on the project often starts years before pipeline construction jobs and offshore pipeline construction ... the roads or waterways. If you are involved trenches, in the trench, then fills begin the restoration of the building. In later stages of each project addresses several issues, including the restoration [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 00:52:23

Drama Reduction Program

Drama Reduction Program By admin | January 20, 2009 Submitted by the stupid cancer blog By Kairol Rosenthal Drama-rama My young adult ... my goals and plans. It wasn’t as hard as I feared. I’ve learned that my identity as a choreographer was partly just a construction of my ego – a fine [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 02:01:50

Obama Hits the Right Note on Government

I grew weary long ago of the effete discussions about the size of government ... their construction of the question often seemed wrong-headed, as if they were asking the wrong question ... that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 18:40:00

Clean Power From Deserts

The Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Technique by Dr. Gerry Wolff Close up view of parabolic trough and heat collector. Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) is the remarkably simple technique of arranging mirrors to concentrate sunlight and using the resulting heat to raise steam to drive turbines and generators, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:54:43

TALK IS CHEAP, ENERGY IS EXPENSIVE.

ENERGY LURES.   OVERALL, THE ENERGY PLAN PROPOSED UNDER OBAMA’S GOOD NAME, IS A LURE. IT VIEWS ENERGY AS CHEAP, A SELF CONTRADICTION, AND TAKES SOME SHINY OBJECTS FOR A SERIOUS FOUNDATION. IGNORING WORLWIDE EXPERIENCE DOES NOT HELP. *** Abstract: Changing energy policy without changing the cost of energy is a lure [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 07:01:41

Estimating Your Kitchen Remodeling Costs

“remodeling costs” “kitchen plans” The first question most people ask is: How much is it going to cost? ... to consider would be: What condition is the house in and what era does the current style suggest and what would you like it to be? What is the current market value of your house before remodeling [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 08:00:28

National Park Service Finally Buys Land for Controversial Flight 93 Memorial

After what seems like years upon years of standstills, redesigns, and often-aggravating controversy, ... . The National Park Service has announced that they have finally finalized the plans to buy the piece ... . Here's a bit: The park service said the deal would allow construction of the memorial to begin [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 16:02:19

Two Ways to Improve TARP for Taxpayers

Below is a comment by Alex Pollock at American Enterprise Institute on the TARP: We need two fundamental improvements in the TARP plan to make it reflect the interests of its investors, the taxpayers. First, the activities of the TARP program should be isolated in a separate accounting entity, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 02:52:55

New Sugar Land Town Square Building Delayed; Could Be Completed By March 2010

Construction of a 175,000-square-foot Class A office building on the last remaining site at Sugar Land Town Square will be delayed, ... construction delay, City of Sugar Land and county officials were asked to slightly change the terms ... with plans agreed to by the City of Sugar Land. Sugar Land Economic Development Director Regina [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 18:11:58

Green Jobs, Van Jones, Sustainable Opportunities, + Better Eco-resorts

Week in Review Van Jones Greening the Ghetto.  Ten best green jobs for the next decade.   Green retrofit work thrives in uncertain economic times. Is construction downturn an opportunity for sustainable building? An ailing economy bodes well for green operations.  More real estate [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 06:41:27

Green Building Startup Serious Materials Scoops Up Window Plant

When the economy tanks, the stronger startups often take the opportunity to get stronger, while the weak get weaker. That’s the case for green construction startup Serious Materials. The company said this morning ... up the closed plant, which had about 150 jobs and produced 13,000 windows per month, within the next 30 days [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 14:00:42

NY metro area won’t be spared job cuts

From the Daily News: New York to lead U.S. in job losses New York is No. 1 again - this time, unfortunately, in job losses. The city is projected to shed more jobs than any other metro area in the country this year ... to turmoil in the finance industry, which will account for more than 50,000 of the jobs lost, according [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 11:05:27

We Grew Up

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 – the day of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president, as the third act of America began. You remember Act One, starring Thomas Jefferson – All Men Are Created Equal. And you remember Act Two, starring Abraham Lincoln and featuring the Civil War – No, Really, They Are [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 06:38:46

A nice job

The McMinnville paper the News Register did an article on me, ... barns before it's too late. Carver, who focuses her artistic talent on oil painting, plans to create a local barn series to sell. And she plans to use the proceeds on construction of her own barn.She [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 03:59:00

Nothing Down, Nothing Forever

The Missoulian reports from Montana. “Craig Siphers had a notion that the run on real estate in the Bitterroot Valley might be slowing during the summer of 2006. But the longtime real estate agent with Hamilton’s Exit Realty couldn’t have predicted then just how far it would fall [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 19:20:23

Van Jones and the Green Revolution

Van Jones and the Green Revolution By Katrina vanden Heuvel Van Jones, President of Green for All and a Nation contributor, ... are: energy efficient and retro-fitting construction jobs; renewable power industry; biofuels industry ... straight on the notion that green jobs are a fantasy--"Buck Rogers jobs, or science fiction jobs, or George [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 22:37:51

Going high risk steampunk

In which your narrator finally gets stuck into exploring other prime movers for future reprap machines.. ... a solenoid coil than it is to do the windings and rotor construction for virtually any kind of electrically [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 22:29:43

In Cedar Rapids, Culver makes case for revenue bonds

[ Gov. Chet Culver made his case for a $700 million state incentive while surrounded by stud-bare and plastic-covered walls at the Cedar Rapids ... , they are not eligible for federal funds,” he said. “In addition, we are setting up a case management [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 18:11:12

Building the Budget: What Canada Needs (I)

In the lead-up to the Jan. 27 federal budget, the National Post has asked prominent Canadians to tell us what kind of fiscal blueprint our country ... . The budget should present a plan to get back to balance, hence any action cannot have an ongoing cost [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 16:47:00

The Kerala Model - At Risk?

The "Kerala model of development" is often cited as a path for developing nations to secure strong human development indices (literacy, health, etc.) ... . There are fishing jobs but little industry and weak agriculture. Government is the largest employer [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 21:28:53

Ghost Malls Will Be Appearing

James Quinn January 19th 2009 America’s economy supports more than 1.1 million retail stores ... in 2007. Normally, 110,000 to 125,000 new stores open per year. At least 700,000 of retail jobs will be lost. The opening of new stores will grind to a halt in 2009. Some major retailers that have closed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 18:39:00

Lighting: A Key to Creating an Environment

I’ve seen the light! PH Artichoke narrow This is one of the light fixtures the electricians were installing on one of my jobs today ... plan”. In a perfect world, every house would be designed for the site on which it sits. It would take [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 04:45:37

Is Mr. 77% Beginning To Act Like It?

The latest NBC/WSJ poll provides further confirmation that the blips and the drama that have accompanied Obama's transition (see, in particular, Blagojevich, Rod and Burris, Roland) are not hurting Obama's popularity in the least. From First Read: According to the latest NBC/WSJ poll, Obama's fav/unfav is 66%-14%, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 00:18:44

Zionist Control of US PolicySourceEverything you wanted to know about how Zionists control US policyby MaloogaI was recently asked to answer the following question: In the original post there is mention of Israel controlling US policy. How exactly does that work? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 06:00:26

Bah, humbug!

By Joseph Romm So what part of the economic stimulus plan did House Minority Leader John Boehner single out on PBS's Newshour: And, ... buildings to make them more energy-efficient, and weatherize the home of poor people. I actually [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 23:28:00

DrumBeat: January 18, 2009

Gulf states delay projects to lower costs Gulf oil producers are delaying some of their projects in energy and other sectors to take advantage of a ... states may continue to use petroleum distillates instead of implementing plans to switch over [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 13:22:33

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