Today's headlines include reports about the announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services that people who get their health insurance through high-risk insurance pools will have an extra two months before this program ends. ...
Tags: high-risk insurance, White House, Obamacare, Health Law
CIOs at midmarket and large companies in Europe and the U.S. will spend 4.5 percent more on IT products and services this year than in 2013 as they focus their budget priorities on cloud computing, ERP and analytics software. That’s ...
Tags: IT budget, cloud computing
Increased competition from online and brick and mortar stores, combined with higher customer expectations driven by the convenience of online shopping, is making it more challenging for retailers to maintain customer loyalty and stay on ...
Tags: Motorola, online shopping
Dragged down by a weak performance of its wholesale business, Japan based Lapine Company Ltd, which is a designer, manufacturer, seller and retailer of women’s clothing and accessories, reported a slight dip in its sales revenue in ...
Tags: women's clothing, women's Apparel
New details emerge about the cut to the health law's Prevention and Public Health Fund in the $1 trillion spending bill, but a jobless benefits extension in Congress stalls. In the meantime, a mental health plan pushed by President Obama ...
Based in Grand Rapids, MI, Tekton is a family owned company specializing in affordable, quality, tools, designed with the DIY'er in mind. Their budget friendly line-up covers just about all bases and as anyone who's ever dealt with them ...
Tags: Tekton, ratchets, composite ratchets, Hybrid Hose, air hoses
The $1 trillion spending bill that lawmakers introduced Monday cuts $1 billion from the health law's Prevention and Public Health Fund and holds down funding for other health law programs to 2013 levels, but leaves it otherwise untouched. ...
After two years of difficult and meticulous work examining, refurbishing, and testing the aging workhorse watt balance called NIST-3, PML researchers have used the instrument to obtain their latest measured value of the Planck constant ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Medicine alone cannot improve the health of the nation -- not when one in five Americans lives in unsafe neighborhoods where pollution, crime and joblessness are prevalent; nutritious food is scarce; and the well-being of young people is at ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Health Care
Call it a revolution or an evolution, the fact is, carpets have been getting softer since the turn of the millennium and they are not going away. In fact, manufacturers noted soft is not a fad or trend but rather a mainstay and needs to be ...
Last July's USDA Cattle Inventory Report fell to the budget ax due to sequestration. Without that mid-year snapshot on the health of the U.S. cattle industry, Jim Robb, executive director of the Livestock Market Information Center, says the ...
Tags: USDA Cattle Inventory Report, U.S.cattle industry, Jim Robb, cow herd
By Robert L. Kallenbach Winter cover crops on corn and soybean acres are a natural fit for crop-and-beef farms. Cover crops offer beef profit potential for the time between fall crop harvest and spring planting, says Rob Kallenbach. He ...
Tags: winter cover crops, corn, soybean, crop-and-beef farms, Rob Kallenbach
The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA) which represents the $827 billion equipment finance sector, revealed its Top 10 Equipment Acquisition Trends for 2014. Given U.S. businesses, nonprofits and government agencies will spend ...
A New Mexico hearings officer says the state should deny a wastewater discharge permit for Valley Meat in Roswell, and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources says it will get back to Rains Natural Meats in Gallatin once it decides if ...
Tags: Food Safety News, Food News, Slaughter Horses, Slaughter Horses Export
This Editorial appears in the Jan. 13 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Washington, D.C., is often the butt of jokes for its year-after-year inaction. But this week - one filled with transportation events - ...