Unions make gains in state (Local 120) Pioneer Press ...As the nation's labor unions saw a decline in membership last year, Minnesota's unions saw an increase...
Regents Discuss Effects of State Budget Cuts and New Admissions Process (Local 2010) The Guardian ...The UC Board of Regents convened ... to discuss ...the possibilities of tuition increases, staff reductions and increased non-resident admissions to combat state budget shortfalls...
Insider Probe Impact Felt by Pension Funds Wall Street Journal ...The federal insider-trading probe is being felt beyond the world of hedge funds and "expert network" firms in New York and Silicon Valley...
Railroads Engineer Growth Journal of Commerce ...When supply chain logisticians explain why the Pacific Northwest is a key option in their four-corners strategy in North America, they sum up their argument in two words: intermodal rail...
Longtime UPS driver rolls to state trucker safety award Minneapolis Star-Tribune ...Charles Ostlund ...is Minnesota's 2010 Truck Driver of the Year...
FedEx starts Deep Frozen Shipping Solution option Associated Press ...FedEx Corp. said Monday it started ... to ship temperature-sensitive healthcare products around the world...
Fight Over Oil Sands Pipeline Continues to Heat Up Wall Street Journal ...Canada believes that it is fully capable of determining the environmental impacts of oil sands mining on its own, and the US EPA thinks that Canada needs a little push to come to the right decision...
Panel Investigating Financial Crisis Is Said to Refer Cases to Justice Dept. New York Times ... a civil investigation would be the most likely outcome of the referrals and that criminal charges were unlikely...
If You Build It, Will They Charge? New York Times ...Car-charging stations in Tennessee will rely on a mix of solar power and batteries, and some of the energy will flow to and from the grid...
"Zero-Interest Policies as Hidden Subsidies to Banks" Economists' View ...The Fed policy drives down the interest rates paid to savers to some small fraction of 1%. At the same time, banks leverage their capital by a factor of 15 or so, thus earning a truly outstanding return from buying Treasuries with costless Fed money or very nearly costless deposits...
