In the rough at Virgina Golf Courses (Virginia Business)
Virginia golf courses still are busy on weekends, but it is increasingly easy to get a weekday tee time. Sobered by the recession, fewer golfers are playing these days. If that trend holds, they will have fewer courses to choose from next year.
Contractor pulls out of riverside hotel job (Roanoke Times)
On Thursday, general contractor J.M. Turner & Co. pulled its work trailers off the construction site along Reserve Avenue in Roanoke and shortly thereafter terminated its contract with the owners and developers of a partially built hotel intended to be part of the Cambria Suites brand.
Steep Market Drops Highlight Despair Over Rescue Efforts (NY Times)
Fears that the world’s economies are even weaker than had been thought ricocheted around the globe on Monday as investors from Hong Kong to London to New York bailed out of stocks.
Tens of Thousands Could Be Added to Federal Payroll (Washington Post)
President Obama’s budget is so ambitious, with vast new spending on health care, energy independence, education and services for veterans, that experts say he probably will need to hire tens of thousands of new federal government workers to realize his goals. The $3.6 trillion plan released last week proposes spending billions to begin initiatives and implement existing programs, and given Obama’s insistence that he would scale back the use of private-sector contractors, his priorities could reverse a generational decline in the size of the government workforce.
To Beat Recession, Indies Launch Buy-Local Push (Business Week)
Most successful buy-local campaigns grow out of independent business networks that share three main elements, says Jeff Milchen, who in 1998 co-founded the first such group in Boulder, Colo. First, they educate consumers about the value of independent businesses in the community. Second, they jointly promote shopping at those businesses through advertising, coupon books, shop-local weeks, and other efforts. And third, they give independent owners a unified voice in government and media.
Biz is failing: Should you tell the staff? (Fortune)
Telling employees you’re concerned about the bottom line can be valuable, but owners also need to offer clear direction on what employees can do to help.
In the rough at Virgina Golf Courses (Virginia Business)
Virginia golf courses still are busy on weekends, but it is increasingly easy to get a weekday tee time. Sobered by the recession, fewer golfers are playing these days. If that trend holds, they will have fewer courses to choose from next year.
Contractor pulls out of riverside hotel job (Roanoke Times)
On Thursday, general contractor J.M. Turner & Co. pulled its work trailers off the construction site along Reserve Avenue in Roanoke and shortly thereafter terminated its contract with the owners and developers of a partially built hotel intended to be part of the Cambria Suites brand.
Steep Market Drops Highlight Despair Over Rescue Efforts (NY Times)
Fears that the world’s economies are even weaker than had been thought ricocheted around the globe on Monday as investors from Hong Kong to London to New York bailed out of stocks.
Tens of Thousands Could Be Added to Federal Payroll (Washington Post)
President Obama’s budget is so ambitious, with vast new spending on health care, energy independence, education and services for veterans, that experts say he probably will need to hire tens of thousands of new federal government workers to realize his goals. The $3.6 trillion plan released last week proposes spending billions to begin initiatives and implement existing programs, and given Obama’s insistence that he would scale back the use of private-sector contractors, his priorities could reverse a generational decline in the size of the government workforce.
To Beat Recession, Indies Launch Buy-Local Push (Business Week)
Most successful buy-local campaigns grow out of independent business networks that share three main elements, says Jeff Milchen, who in 1998 co-founded the first such group in Boulder, Colo. First, they educate consumers about the value of independent businesses in the community. Second, they jointly promote shopping at those businesses through advertising, coupon books, shop-local weeks, and other efforts. And third, they give independent owners a unified voice in government and media.
Biz is failing: Should you tell the staff? (Fortune)
Telling employees you’re concerned about the bottom line can be valuable, but owners also need to offer clear direction on what employees can do to help.
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