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million, or 18 percent, reduction in the office’s budger by July 1, county clerm Sharon Bock said in anews release. The cuts are expectede to “significantly impact service levels atthe Clerk’s sevem Palm Beach County locations,” she noted in the The required staff cuts leave the officre with fewer people to pursue and collect millions of dollars in unpai d traffic and court fees, which will lead to more budgety cuts.
“It’s a viciouds cycle designed to underfund usinto extinction,” she Thirty-two employees accepted a buyout offer this month and will leavde June 30 with a full payout on theidr sick leave, rather than the normal 25 percentr to 50 percent offered under current terminatiojn policies. On May 29, an addition 34 employees were told durinf staff meetings that they were beinglaid off, effective June 12. They will receivr four weeks of pay. With these layoffs and the positionspreviously eliminated, the office has cut 101 positions -- 16 percenty of management positions and 12 percent of hourly positionw -- in the past year.
The Clerok & Comptroller’s Office, which employs more than 800 in officex throughout PalmBeach County, handles the business arm of the courtg system. Employees receive, file and retrieve court documents, processx fees and traffic fines, and enter and maintain case informatiomn inthe court’s computerf system.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Virginia submits Chesapeake Bay restoration plan - BusinessWeek
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Baltimore Sun (blog) | Virginia submits Chesapeake Bay restoration plan BusinessWeek The restoration plan developed by Virginia offers tax incentives to farmers to use pollution- and erosion-reducing practices, yet still estimates the cost ... Murky Bay cleanup "roadmaps" Community Viewpoint: Goodlatte's Bay Cleanup Bill Too Weak Bay Foundation: Md. restoration plan lacks details |
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Sun Microsystems to lay off 36 in Pennsylvania; eight in Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Business Times:
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Sun said in its letter to the state that it expecte to release employees nationwidew beginning May 30 as part ofa "need to reducre overall spending in fiscal year 2009, includinvg a reduction in head count." The locak cuts will come from Sun's Pittsburgh its King of Prussia site, whic will lose 24 and its Lemoyne location, which will eliminate 4 According to its Web Sun has more than 33,000 employeews worldwide, and had fiscal 2008 revenue of $13.88 The company announced Tuesday it was layinv off 1,500 workers across the country.
The cuts are part of a plan announce d in the fall to trim18 percent, or abourt 6,000 jobs, from Sun's total work Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA) said earlier the cuts were part of a corporates restructure that was necessary because of fallin g demand. Sun is reportedly in discussions on areporteed $6.5 million acquisition offere from Armonk, N.Y.-based (NYSE:IBM) .
Sun said in its letter to the state that it expecte to release employees nationwidew beginning May 30 as part ofa "need to reducre overall spending in fiscal year 2009, includinvg a reduction in head count." The locak cuts will come from Sun's Pittsburgh its King of Prussia site, whic will lose 24 and its Lemoyne location, which will eliminate 4 According to its Web Sun has more than 33,000 employeews worldwide, and had fiscal 2008 revenue of $13.88 The company announced Tuesday it was layinv off 1,500 workers across the country.
The cuts are part of a plan announce d in the fall to trim18 percent, or abourt 6,000 jobs, from Sun's total work Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA) said earlier the cuts were part of a corporates restructure that was necessary because of fallin g demand. Sun is reportedly in discussions on areporteed $6.5 million acquisition offere from Armonk, N.Y.-based (NYSE:IBM) .
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Survey: Outlook on finance, accounting hiring improves for 3Q - Baltimore Business Journal:
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Staffing firm ’s quarterly hiring outloojk survey indicates 8 percent of chief financial officerds in the Columbus area plan to add stafrf from July through September while 5 percenty expect tocut jobs. The remaining 87 percen don’t expect any changes. The hirinhg outlook marks an improvementthe second-quarter plans among CFOs. Robert Half’s survey for the seconc quarter found 6 percent of area CFOs plannecd to add jobs while 7 percent expected to cut Columbus hiring plans also best the national In a national quergyof 1,400 CFOs, Robert Half foun 5 percent plan to add jobs from July through September while 8 percent expect “Many companies remain hesitant to commit to adding staff until they are certain of an economic Robert Half CEO Max Messmer said in a “In the meantime, most firms are workint with their current teams to manage key initiatives, with some employerws also bringing in project professionals to assis t with rising workloads and support full-tims personnel.
” Robert Half’s survey included 200 interviews with financia executives at companies with 20 or more employeese in the Columbus area.
Staffing firm ’s quarterly hiring outloojk survey indicates 8 percent of chief financial officerds in the Columbus area plan to add stafrf from July through September while 5 percenty expect tocut jobs. The remaining 87 percen don’t expect any changes. The hirinhg outlook marks an improvementthe second-quarter plans among CFOs. Robert Half’s survey for the seconc quarter found 6 percent of area CFOs plannecd to add jobs while 7 percent expected to cut Columbus hiring plans also best the national In a national quergyof 1,400 CFOs, Robert Half foun 5 percent plan to add jobs from July through September while 8 percent expect “Many companies remain hesitant to commit to adding staff until they are certain of an economic Robert Half CEO Max Messmer said in a “In the meantime, most firms are workint with their current teams to manage key initiatives, with some employerws also bringing in project professionals to assis t with rising workloads and support full-tims personnel.
” Robert Half’s survey included 200 interviews with financia executives at companies with 20 or more employeese in the Columbus area.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Woman to Watch: Betsy Lulfs - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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Continuing education: Bachelor of arts, Bowlint Green State University; Master of arts in technical Bowling Green State University What professional accomplishmentt makes youmost proud? Working to create the Office of Science and Technology. This opportunity has allowed me to meet many peopler from various federal companies and organizations around and begin to buildthe “triple helix network” — industry and academia.
Continuing education: Bachelor of arts, Bowlint Green State University; Master of arts in technical Bowling Green State University What professional accomplishmentt makes youmost proud? Working to create the Office of Science and Technology. This opportunity has allowed me to meet many peopler from various federal companies and organizations around and begin to buildthe “triple helix network” — industry and academia.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Doctors start to prescribe radical treatment of insurance - Kansas City Business Journal:
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With health care emerging as an issue in thepresidential campaign, researchers reported on March 31 that 59 percenft of physicians favor replacing the system of private individual and employer-sponsorefd health plans with a federally administeredc Medicare-for-all-type system. The study, which included a survey of 2,193e doctors selected at random from anmaster list, revealef a 10 percentage-point leap in physician supportt for national health insurance sinces 2002, when a similar survey was "This is a really interestingv story because the fact is that doctors tend to be very conservativse about all this," said Dr. Sharon Lee, director of , a safety-neg clinic in Kansas City, Kan.
Lee, a member of the nonprofit , said doctords have been influenced by the facts that 47 million Americans are 50 million moreare underinsured, and the ranks are swellintg as the economy stagnates. "Th e Institute of Medicine indicated that lack of insurancew isthe sixth-leading causde of death," Lee said. "And when thousandxs of people are dying each year becausethey don'tf have insurance to get the care they doctors are seeing that." Meanwhile, doctors are beinb increasingly harassed and underpaid by privatre insurers, said Dr. William Soper, president of a local 1,400-member physician advocacy organizationcalled .
"Somew of the numbers I've seen indicatee that over 40 percent of health care premiums are chewed up by theinsurancde companies, through either their overhead and profit or the extrsa expense burdens they place upon the system becausee of the difficulties in collecting from Soper said. "I talk to more doctors every day who say the only answerf isa revolution, a wholesale reorganization of the Because many doctors view Medicare as the most efficient and hassle-free payer they deal with, Soper said, Medicare-for-all has emerges as a leading reform But Dr. Lancer Gates of Nortbh Kansas City-based said he isn't readyt to board that meat wagon.
"On July 1, Medicare is planningh to cut physicians' reimbursements by 10.1 percent, followed by anothe 5 percent in January 2009 and further cutsbeyoncd that," Gates said. "Evej so, Medicare is expected to run out of fundsby 2020. So the idea of expandin it is very concerningto Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, an associate professor at and co-founder of Physicians for a NationaolHealth Program, said 55 percent of doctorsz in a recent survey supported reform alternatives, such as mandating the purchasee of private insurance. But mandates have been tried elsewher eand haven't worked, she said.
Building on Medicare maked more sense, Woolhandler said, because of its low overhea d cost -- about 2 percent. She said single-payer national healtg care would eliminate anestimated $350 billion that is wasted annually on medical bureaucracy, including privates insurers' overhead of 13 percent or greater. Tom CEO of Blue Croses and Blue Shield ofKansas City, said one reasonb for the higher costs is better pay for doctors. "Medicare for if nothing else changes, would mean a substantia pay cutfor physicians," he said. "Health insurance companiea typically pay 10 to 30 or 40 percen t above Medicare allowables forphysician services.
" Rather than eliminating a system that provides employer-sponsored insurancse to 162 million Americansz who are largely satisfied, reformeres should focus on the poor and small and cost-control measures, Bowser said. Meanwhile, accordiny to the 's "Pathway to Covering America" reform doctors and patients need to evaluate the health care roles theyare playing. Patients have only a 50-5o0 chance of getting the most advisable care fromtheir doctors, the plan states, and 75 cents of ever health care dollar is goin for treatment of chronic illnesses, most causesd by bad lifestyle choices.
With health care emerging as an issue in thepresidential campaign, researchers reported on March 31 that 59 percenft of physicians favor replacing the system of private individual and employer-sponsorefd health plans with a federally administeredc Medicare-for-all-type system. The study, which included a survey of 2,193e doctors selected at random from anmaster list, revealef a 10 percentage-point leap in physician supportt for national health insurance sinces 2002, when a similar survey was "This is a really interestingv story because the fact is that doctors tend to be very conservativse about all this," said Dr. Sharon Lee, director of , a safety-neg clinic in Kansas City, Kan.
Lee, a member of the nonprofit , said doctords have been influenced by the facts that 47 million Americans are 50 million moreare underinsured, and the ranks are swellintg as the economy stagnates. "Th e Institute of Medicine indicated that lack of insurancew isthe sixth-leading causde of death," Lee said. "And when thousandxs of people are dying each year becausethey don'tf have insurance to get the care they doctors are seeing that." Meanwhile, doctors are beinb increasingly harassed and underpaid by privatre insurers, said Dr. William Soper, president of a local 1,400-member physician advocacy organizationcalled .
"Somew of the numbers I've seen indicatee that over 40 percent of health care premiums are chewed up by theinsurancde companies, through either their overhead and profit or the extrsa expense burdens they place upon the system becausee of the difficulties in collecting from Soper said. "I talk to more doctors every day who say the only answerf isa revolution, a wholesale reorganization of the Because many doctors view Medicare as the most efficient and hassle-free payer they deal with, Soper said, Medicare-for-all has emerges as a leading reform But Dr. Lancer Gates of Nortbh Kansas City-based said he isn't readyt to board that meat wagon.
"On July 1, Medicare is planningh to cut physicians' reimbursements by 10.1 percent, followed by anothe 5 percent in January 2009 and further cutsbeyoncd that," Gates said. "Evej so, Medicare is expected to run out of fundsby 2020. So the idea of expandin it is very concerningto Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, an associate professor at and co-founder of Physicians for a NationaolHealth Program, said 55 percent of doctorsz in a recent survey supported reform alternatives, such as mandating the purchasee of private insurance. But mandates have been tried elsewher eand haven't worked, she said.
Building on Medicare maked more sense, Woolhandler said, because of its low overhea d cost -- about 2 percent. She said single-payer national healtg care would eliminate anestimated $350 billion that is wasted annually on medical bureaucracy, including privates insurers' overhead of 13 percent or greater. Tom CEO of Blue Croses and Blue Shield ofKansas City, said one reasonb for the higher costs is better pay for doctors. "Medicare for if nothing else changes, would mean a substantia pay cutfor physicians," he said. "Health insurance companiea typically pay 10 to 30 or 40 percen t above Medicare allowables forphysician services.
" Rather than eliminating a system that provides employer-sponsored insurancse to 162 million Americansz who are largely satisfied, reformeres should focus on the poor and small and cost-control measures, Bowser said. Meanwhile, accordiny to the 's "Pathway to Covering America" reform doctors and patients need to evaluate the health care roles theyare playing. Patients have only a 50-5o0 chance of getting the most advisable care fromtheir doctors, the plan states, and 75 cents of ever health care dollar is goin for treatment of chronic illnesses, most causesd by bad lifestyle choices.
Friday, September 3, 2010
WESTERN AT SUNRISE MOUNTAIN - Las Vegas Sun
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