OAK RIDGE – Three weeks after the Department of Energy announced that Oak Ridge would receive $755 million in stimulus money for shovel-ready environmental cleanup projects, the money has finally arrived – at least the first allotment.
“We have received $604 million,” DOE spokesman John Shewairy said Wednesday.
That’s 80 percent of the total money that’s targeted [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 30, 2009
DOE stimulus money arrives in Oak Ridge TN
April 30, 2009
8 Great Ways to Land Your Dream Job
Even as jobs become harder to find, too many job-seekers rely on a tunnel-vision strategy that makes use of only one or two job-search methods. That strategy may eventually land you a job, but it’s likely you’ll spend more time being frustrated than interviewed.
So should you rely on job fairs, Internet job boards or social [...]
April 30, 2009
Tennessee colleges consider stimulus projects
Voluntary buyout plans, energy efficient buildings, and roofs that don’t leak when it rains — these are the items college administrators in Tennessee have in mind when it comes to spending an additional $312 million in federal and state stimulus funding this year and next.
The one big exception that schools can’t pay for with the [...]
April 30, 2009
Inmates learn to transition back into society
Almost 200 inmates at Foothills Correctional Institution spent Friday learning about opportunities to assist them in transitioning into society.
Inmates enrolled in the academic programs at Foothills were eligible for the event, teacher Ruth Anne Beaver said.
Inmates with less than a year until release focused on transitioning into jobs, while those with more time left focused [...]
April 30, 2009
VA, WCU form nursing partnership
A federal grant will boost the number of students and faculty in Western Carolina University’s accelerated nursing program to prepare the region for an expected shortage of nurses, officials with WCU and the VA Medical Center in Asheville announced Thursday.
The $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will fund five new faculty [...]
April 30, 2009
WNC employment slide slowing
Western North Carolina’s economy continued to decline in February but at a slower rate than in previous months, according to a report released Thursday by economists at Appalachian State University.
Economic activity in the region dropped by 0.1 percent for the month, the smallest decline recorded since July 2008, as measured by the WNC Economic [...]
April 28, 2009
Stormwater projects in Charlotte region get stimulus funds
Federal stimulus money will pay for a pair of Charlotte environmental projects that prevent flooding and clean storm water.
The city will use $2.2 million to create a 28-acre conservation area in the McAlpine Creek watershed. As part of that project, Charlotte’s Storm Water Services department will restore 7,373 linear feet of stream and 6.1 acres [...]
April 27, 2009
Outlook is mixed for bank-related jobs in Charlotte
February was brutal for bank workers as the Charlotte area shed 2,900 finance and insurance jobs – a loss nearly triple the size of any suffered before. But preliminary data for March indicates a calm, with finance jobs in the region essentially flat.
That stark contrast, along with interviews with more than a dozen industry experts, [...]
April 20, 2009
S.C. unemployment rate hits 11.4%
South Carolina’s unemployment rate reached 11.4 percent in March, the highest rate since January 1983.
The figure was higher than the revised February rate of 10.9 percent, according to the S.C. Employment Security Commission.
In March, the state’s labor force dropped slightly to 2,185,451, while the number of unemployed jumped 10,221 to reach a record high of [...]
April 20, 2009
PPG to cut 90 jobs
PPG Industries FiberGlass Products Inc. plans to cut 90 jobs on May 1, a company spokesman confirms.
The company cites the weak economy and reduced demand for fiberglass.
Fifteen workers have taken an early retirement offer and 75 will be laid off, says Jeremy Neuhart, spokesman for parent company PPG Industries Inc.
Those 75 have one-year recall rights.
In [...]
