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Courtesy U.S. Air Force/Tech Sgt. Ben Bloker
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to build a $15 million parking area at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii for the Air Force’s F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets, seen here.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Bejac Corp. worker Shawn Galusha paints a track of a Linkbelt excavator Wednesday at the Shasta District Fairgrounds in preparation for the forest products and construction equipment expo.
The 63rd annual Sierra Cascade Logging Conference kicks off today in Anderson.The event, which brings in industry professionals from around the West, returns to the Shasta District Fairgrounds after two years at the Redding Convention Center.
Conference exhibits will be open today through Saturday. Exhibits open at 11 a.m. today, and 9 a.m. Friday and Saturday at the fairgrounds. The exhibits are free.
Jeff Fowle, a fourth-generation rancher from Etna, will be the keynote speaker at this morning’s breakfast inside Fusaro Hall.
NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America is back to basics — slimmed down, stripped of its swagger and no longer the biggest bank in the country. And investors, after pummeling the company for two years, finally like what they see.
The stock jumped 2.4 percent Thursday after Bank of America reported that it made $2 billion from October through December, reversing a $1.2 billion loss from a year earlier. The stock is up 25 percent this year.
Almost none of the profit came from improvements in Bank of America’s basic businesses. In
Early Wednesday morning, the German Ministry of the Economy cut its forecast for that countrys economic growth to near-recessionary levels. The market could not care less: a benchmark index for the local stock market was up, a sale of the governments sovereign debt was reported as drawing record demand, and another report showed investors were growing more optimistic on German equities.
Those developments came as a result of a market apparently estimating the expectedly low growth in the German economy is still a surer bet than the economic contraction other countries in the Eurozone could conceivably experience in 2012.
In the land of economic contraction, it seems, even the most abysmal of growth forecasts is king.
Earlier Wednesday, German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler said his government saw the national economy growing at a rate near 0.7 percent for the year — a reduction over previous forecasts of 1 percent growth.
I was having an amazing conversation with my grown daughter who is a free spirit. She is a film maker and raw food chef who has a ton of friends and opinions about, well, just about everything.
Here’s what was fascinating.
When she was little, way before You Tube, she loved to listen to songs and stories by Marlo Thomas from the album “Free to Be You and Me”. She went on to talk about other parts of her life, looking at what it means to be a woman, a leader, a creative human who yearned for adventure and depth.
Back to Marlo and songs from a revolution to give children the freedom to choose what their lives would include. My daug
Hawaiian Telcom President and CEO Eric K. Yea