DEQ report: More Va. waterways polluted (Times-Dispatch)
More Virginia waterways are polluted than ever before, but more than ever are being cleaned. That was the good and bad news in a 2010 water-quality report the state Department of Environmental Quality issued yesterday.
Ukrop’s sued over auction of York store (Daily Press)
A Texas insurance company has filed a $2 million lawsuit against Ukrop’s Supermarkets, Inc. over its long-closed Lightfoot location.
Washington looks tantalizing to New York’s restaurateurs (WaPo)
A growing number of New York City-based restaurants are scouting locations or setting up shop in the District, hedging against some weakness in their hometown market.
WDRL takes a station break (Roanoke Times)
The independent television station — which broadcast over-the-air on channel 24 and was on cable systems in the Roanoke-Lynchburg market, the New River Valley and Southside Virginia — was taken off the air in late July, after a federal judge in West Virginia upheld a $1.1 million judgment against the station’s owners.
Egg Industry Faces New Scrutiny After Outbreak (NY Times)
As it reeled from the recall of half a billion eggs for possible salmonella infection, the American egg industry was already battling a movement to outlaw its methods as cruel and unsafe, and adapting to the Obama administration’s drive to bolster health rules and inspections.
Inside the secret world of Trader Joe’s (Fortune)
It’s little wonder that Trader Joe’s is one of the hottest retailers in the U.S. It now boasts 344 stores in 25 states and Washington, D.C., and strip-mall operators and consumers alike aggressively lobby the chain, based in Monrovia, Calif., to come to their towns.
S.C.’s Park Seed sold for $13M at bankruptcy hearing (USA Today)
A Maryland company agreed Monday to pay $12.8 million to buy South Carolina’s troubled Park Seed, whose seed catalog has been a small source of warmth during long winters across the country for more than 140 years. A federal bankruptcy judge accepted the offer from Blackstreet Capital after frenzied negotiations in the courtroom and hallway of a Columbia courthouse that drove the best bid up $4 million in four hours.
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DEQ report: More Va. waterways polluted (Times-Dispatch)
More Virginia waterways are polluted than ever before, but more than ever are being cleaned. That was the good and bad news in a 2010 water-quality report the state Department of Environmental Quality issued yesterday.
Ukrop’s sued over auction of York store (Daily Press)
A Texas insurance company has filed a $2 million lawsuit against Ukrop’s Supermarkets, Inc. over its long-closed Lightfoot location.
Washington looks tantalizing to New York’s restaurateurs (WaPo)
A growing number of New York City-based restaurants are scouting locations or setting up shop in the District, hedging against some weakness in their hometown market.
WDRL takes a station break (Roanoke Times)
The independent television station — which broadcast over-the-air on channel 24 and was on cable systems in the Roanoke-Lynchburg market, the New River Valley and Southside Virginia — was taken off the air in late July, after a federal judge in West Virginia upheld a $1.1 million judgment against the station’s owners.
Egg Industry Faces New Scrutiny After Outbreak (NY Times)
As it reeled from the recall of half a billion eggs for possible salmonella infection, the American egg industry was already battling a movement to outlaw its methods as cruel and unsafe, and adapting to the Obama administration’s drive to bolster health rules and inspections.
Inside the secret world of Trader Joe’s (Fortune)
It’s little wonder that Trader Joe’s is one of the hottest retailers in the U.S. It now boasts 344 stores in 25 states and Washington, D.C., and strip-mall operators and consumers alike aggressively lobby the chain, based in Monrovia, Calif., to come to their towns.
S.C.’s Park Seed sold for $13M at bankruptcy hearing (USA Today)
A Maryland company agreed Monday to pay $12.8 million to buy South Carolina’s troubled Park Seed, whose seed catalog has been a small source of warmth during long winters across the country for more than 140 years. A federal bankruptcy judge accepted the offer from Blackstreet Capital after frenzied negotiations in the courtroom and hallway of a Columbia courthouse that drove the best bid up $4 million in four hours.
The Best Industries For Starting a Business Right Now (Inc.)
Sixteen up and coming industries, see if your start up is among those in an emerging sector.