| CENTRAL PA NEWS (The Patriot-News) |
| For the fourth year in a row, there are no tax increases in the proposed 2009 Dauphin County budget. Instead of raising taxes, the county commissioners plan to spend $9 million from the reserves to balance the proposed $151 million budget. |
| 11/26/2008 |
| CENTRAL PA NEWS (The Patriot-News) |
| The economy is trickling down, and that could mean your taxes will go up. Just consider the impact on county governments, which rely on real estate taxes as well as state and federal grants to provide services for children, the elderly and the mentally ill. |
| 11/23/2008 |
| Daily News Brief (Foreign Relations) |
| - Global stock rally, but new data suggests lasting economic downturn. - Medvedev opens Latin America tour; coincides with Russian-Venezuelan naval exercize. |
| 11/25/2008 |
| Local bagel baker has small bank to thank for expansion (Long Island Business News) |
| Anthony Pariti hasn’t been sleeping well lately. But sitting in a conference room last week at his family-owned Always Bagels, he said he’d received news that might smooth the way to dreamland. A loan from Suffolk County National Bank had just come through for the Bohemia bagel wholesaler. The $15 million deal will allow for a [...] |
| 11/20/2008 |
| Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz) |
| Looking over the seven page questionnaire that the Obama organization has for prospective appointees, several thoughts occurred: |
| 11/16/2008 |
| Builders roll with punches (Lancaster Online) |
| It's actually been a pretty good year for Larry Wisdom's company, Keystone Custom Homes, which built and sold about as many homes in 2008 — 300 — as it did in 2007.And if you think the status quo is nothing to get excited about, you haven't paid much attention to the national... |
| 11/15/2008 |
| Pssst! Wanna Go to College for Free? (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News) |
| Tim Stroud's alarm goes off at 3:40 a.m. every weekday morning, a time when most of his classmates at the College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo., are fast asleep. By 4:30 a.m., he is out in the pasture in his work boots gathering the college's herd of 50 Holstein cows into the barn for their morning milking session. His unusual campus job -- working in the dairy 15 hours a week -- is a ... |
| 11/06/2008 |
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