Cash in trash News24 | SOME entrepreneurs across the country are building businesses based on the belief that garbage - once destined to rot in a landfill - can be repurposed into profitable products. | Americans produced about 250 million tonnes of trash in 2010, recycling and composting about 34% of that total, accord...
APNewsBreak: Salazar to approve Utah gas wells Austin American Statesman | SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is set to approve a major natural gas drilling project in Utah. | Interior officials tell The Associated Press that Salazar plans to announce the approval of more than 3,600 new wells over the next decade in eastern Utah. Officials say the...
Licensing rules can deter entrepreneurs from starting small business Tulsa World NEW YORK (AP) - Many people dream of opening their own business. But some would-be entrepreneurs are finding that state licensing requirements are so arduous that it would take years and thousands of dollars before they ever would be able to hang out...
>Seattle still best for tech jobs Seattle Post | Seattle is still the best U.S. city for tech jobs, Forbes reported Thursday. The area also topped a similar Forbes ranking in November. | The latest ranking system, which Praxis Strategy Group developed for Forbes, measures employment growth in hig...
American sectarian Al Jazeera | Perhaps the two best-known things about Mitt Romney are that he is a Mormon and that he made a lot of money as a venture capitalist. Since both of these facts present certain liabilities in US politics, his campaign for the White House has tried to...
Minorities near majority in America NZ Herald | For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing. | New 2011 census estimates highlight sweeping changes in the nation's racial ma...
Congress votes to reauthorize Export-Import Bank STL Today | The government's vehicle for promoting U.S. export sales survived a challenge from conservatives Tuesday with a Senate vote to renew the charter of the Export-Import Bank for three years. The vote, coming after the Senate rejected amendments to wea...
Congress votes to reauthorize Export-Import Bank Knox News | WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's vehicle for promoting U.S. export sales survived a challenge from conservatives Tuesday with a Senate vote to renew the charter of the Export-Import Bank for three years. The vote, coming after the Senate reject...
Utah tech director resigns in wake of data theft Buffalo News | SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah's chief technology officer has resigned in the wake of the theft of hundreds of thousands of online medical records by unknown computer hackers. | Gov. Gary Herbert on Tuesday announced a "comprehensive" respons...
APNewsBreak: Salazar to approve Utah gas wells Austin American Statesman | SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is set to approve a major natural gas drilling project in Utah. | Interior officials tell The Associated Press that Salazar plans to announce the approval of more than 3,600 new wells over the next decade in eastern Utah. Officials say the project will support up to 4,300 jobs during its ...
