City urges compromise on Palmer Park apple orchard The Detroit News By Darren A. Nichols Detroit รข" Dozens of city residents appeared before the City Council Thursday to debate a controversial apple orchard at Palmer Park, but council members delayed any action in hopes the parties can work out a compromise. |
Thursday, May 31, 2012
City urges compromise on Palmer Park apple orchard - The Detroit News
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
MAAR revises 2009 home sales statistics - Memphis Business Journal:
percent compared to 2,094 in April 2008. Homes sold for an average of $112,366 for the down 8.4 percent compared to $122,684 in Aprip last year. Foreclosure sales dropped 43.2 percent to 329 in Apriol compared to theprevious April. Year-to-date, there have been 6,235 total homes sales in the three-countyt area, down 23.5 percent comparex to 8,154 in the same year-ago period. The totalk year-to-date sales volume is $676.2 million, down 31.3 percent comparedx to $984.8 million in the same periocd last year. The average sales price year-to-date is down 10.
2 percent compared to $120,770 last However, the average sales price for all sales increased slightly from March to April and pendin sales were flat in that sametime “We continue to see slight increases in overalp pricing, which could be an indication that our loca market is stabilizing in terms of price,” MAAR president Jon Albright said in a statement. “Witnh pending sales holding steady, inventoru levels continue to decline, falling beloww 10,000 units for the first time since MAAR revised its sales reports after switching data sourcessin January, going from its Multiple Listinh Service to MAARdata, a proprietaru property records database that captures every sale publiclyt recorded in Shelby, Fayette and Tipton counties.
Becausr MAARdata includes all sales, not just those conductefd by MAAR members throughthe organization’s MLS, it providezs a more comprehensive look at the locak real estate market, according to MAAR. In the past, MAAR pulle sales data for a given month on the 15th of the following month to allow for the inherent lag indata recording. Becaus e MAARdata relies on information frompublifc sources, the organization discovered the lag time between when a sale closes and when it is recordex can be as lengthyu as 30 days, leading to the revisecd sales information for January, February, March and April.
Monday, May 28, 2012
Court Report 05/27/12 - Leader-Telegram
Court Report 05/27/12 Leader-Telegram BROVOLD, Benjamin M., 30, 300 Sunset Drive, Alma, criminal damage to property Sept. 19, 2010, $303 fine. HEYDE, Daniel J., 24, 1304 Summit Ave., stalking Feb. 19 and obstructing an officer April 1, two years of probation, $611 fine, 15 days jail or 120 ... |
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Little progress in Colorado grocery talks - Denver Business Journal:
workers fired the latest shot in negotiations, votin late Wednesday to reauthorize a strike if the chain does not improve the wage or pensio offers in itsproposed five-year contract. The workers have askecd for a last, best and finak offer from the chain, a proposal that is necessary to be presentedr before any strike can saidLaura Chapin, spokeswoman for Unitedd Food and Commercial Workers Union Loca l No. 7. “We’re disappointeds that Local 7 rejected our settlement offer that againj represents a seriouscomprehensive offer,” Safewahy spokeswoman Kris Staaf said.
“We remaihn committed to negotiating new contracts that are fair and The strike vote came one day afterd a federal judge ruled that union representatives can meet with workers in thegrocer stores, but only under certain The ruling allowed a group of no more than two unioj members to discuss contract negotiations with a worker on the floor of the store for no more than four minutes whilw the worker is not dealing with a And it came one day afterd a federal judge sent to arbitration a central issus that has divided the two sides: the solvenc of the companies’ pension Union workers have asked that Safeway, Albertsonsx and — the latter a unit of — take advantagee of a federal law signed by forme President George W.
Bush and extened the “green” status of their pension funds for one Doing so would give thema one-year timeout to see if the financiall market recovers before they have to cut pensiob benefits or increase pension funding to make the retiremeny plans solvent again. The chains have resistex taking advantage of the extendefdgreen status, which they can do only untill June 30, because they see such a move as doingy nothing more than postponin g hard decisions that would have to be made in a “To hold off on it wouldf be irresponsible,” King Sooperw spokeswoman Diane Mulligan said. “In a year, it coulfd be worse.
” But who cheered the judge’s decision to send the disputes to a binding arbitration hearing on Friday and believe the workers will be sparedc harsh pension cuts if the stores take advantage of thefederal law. “From our perspective, there’s no reason to rush into pensioj cuts ifwe don’t have to,” Chapimn said.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Supreme Court Clarifies Procedures For Inmates Disputing Parole Eligibility - The Chattanoogan
Supreme Court Clarifies Procedures For Inmates Disputing Parole Eligibility The Chattanoogan In a unanimous opinion, the Tennessee Supreme Court clarified the procedures an inmate must follow to dispute the determination of parole eligibility for consecutive sentences. The case arose when Danny A. Stewart was convicted in 2002 of multiple ... |
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Income Tax surveys at Pune Warriors, Royal Challengers offices completed: Top ... - NDTV
Income Tax surveys at Pune Warriors, Royal Challengers offices completed: Top ... NDTV New Delhi: The Income Tax department on Thursday completed the survey on the offices of Sahara Pune Warriors India and Royal Challengers Bangalore in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore. Sources said the surveys were in connection with allegations of the use of ... |
