Open Congress : News Articles for S.504 National Right-to-Work Act

Crater Planning District Commission names chair

2012-07-19T03:27:49Z

The Crater Development Company administers two small business loan programs: SBA's '504' Program and a Revolving Loan Fund, working cooperatively with banks throughout the region. The Crater Small Business Development Center of Longwood ...

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Minnesota development: 90 projects seek $288 million in grants; $47.5 million available

2012-07-10T19:37:42Z

The city of St. Paul's 504-page application for $27 million to build a new Lowertown ballpark is likely to score well as state workers review the details, but that doesn't mean it's a done deal, or that the Southwest Light Rail Transit line ...

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Dyer County schools recognize Teachers of the Year

2012-07-10T04:57:14Z

A previous member of the Tennessee Education Association, Young has led her school as a member of its Instructional Leadership team, the coordinator of the school's 504 Plan, a member of the Superintendent's Advisory Board, fourth-grade representative on .

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This week in Tampa: Puscifer, 2 Chainz, The BoDeans, John Waite and more

2012-07-03T23:20:45Z

The charismatic New Orleans rapper is a former member of Master P's 504 Boyz (Wobble, Wobble), a Lil Wayne protégé and a friend to Wiz Khalifa (they actually shared a Facebook page at one point). FRIDAY 7:30 p.m. The Capitol Theatre ...

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Small business expo to be held Thursday

2012-06-21T14:30:57Z

There will be two pre-expo seminars available for business professionals: •U.S. SBA's 504 Loan Program, presented by HEDCO from 1 to 2 p.m. on June 28. •"Investing in our Island" from 2 to 4 p.m., which will feature a panel of ...

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Pick 6: Michael Morain's must-see events for the week ahead

2012-06-17T10:25:09Z

1. Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of The King, makes a return visit to Des Moines at 8 p.m. Monday at Wooly’s, 504 E. Locust St. Presley is touring in support of “Storm & Grace,” her first album in seven years and a more roots-focused ...

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ECLECTIC RANT:Right-To-Work Laws: A GOP Assault on Unions

2012-06-16T17:14:22Z

In May 8, 2011, Senator Jim DeMint (R. SC) introduced the National Right-to-Work Act S-504), a bill to preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such activities.

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ECLECTIC RANT:Right-To-Work Laws: A GOP Assault on Unions

2012-06-16T17:07:12Z

Right-To-Work Laws: A GOP Assault on Unions

2012-06-16T07:20:13Z

Right-To-Work Laws: A GOP Assault on Unions

2012-06-15T17:37:01Z

In May 8, 2011, Senator Jim DeMint (R. SC) introduced the National Right-to-Work Act (S-504), a bill to preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such activities.

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Cool Show: Nitefall series welcomes Hornsby

2012-06-14T06:46:48Z

$10. Sid Wilson: Slipknot’s DJ at House of Bricks, 525 E. Grand Ave. 6 p.m. Friday. $15. Anberlin: Acoustic tour stop at Wooly’s, 504 E. Locust St. 5:30 p.m. Saturday. $18. Harper: Australian blues at The Gas Lamp, 1501 Grand Ave.

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On your radar: A New Orleans rapper, a musical fantasy and Tidalwave Tuesday

2012-06-12T08:15:05Z

Curren$y: The charismatic New Orleans rapper is a former member of Master P's 504 Boyz (Wobble, Wobble), a Lil Wayne protege and a friend to Wiz Khalifa. See him perform at 7 p.m. at Ritz Ybor in Tampa. $20. Vanishing Point: This musical fantasy ...

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Things to do in Tampa Bay for June 12

2012-06-11T17:48:55Z

City Officials To Attend Ground Breaking Ceremony For New SedraMart in West San Antonio

2012-06-07T09:54:04Z

Zarzamora street. The convenience store and gas station, which opens Fall 2012, is a $900,000 investment in San Antonio’s Westside made possible by the Small Business Administration's 504 loan program, facilitated by 5th Gear Consulting. Contact Samer ..

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SoundCheck: Avicii, Puscifer, 2 Chainz, Curren$y and the Jets, John Waite

2012-06-06T12:18:25Z

The charismatic New Orleans rapper is a former member of Master P's 504 Boyz (Wobble, Wobble), a Lil Wayne protege and a friend to Wiz Khalifa (they actually shared a Facebook page at one point). Times correspondent Carole Liparoto can be ...

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SoundCheck: Avicii, Puscifer, 2 Chainz, Curren$y and the Jets, John Waite

2012-06-06T03:57:20Z

TEXAS ALLIANCE FOR HOME CARE SERVICES v. SEBELIUS

2012-05-31T19:56:30Z

to establish a federally funded health insurance program for the elderly and disabled. Thomas Jefferson Univ. v. Shalala, 512 U.S. 504, 506, 114 S.Ct. 2381, 129 L.Ed.2d 405 (1994). The Medicare Act authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations “defining

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Congress needs to stop talking and support small business lending programs

2012-05-25T16:21:43Z

Hurn recently testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship, where he presented solutions to redesigning the SBA's 504 program. For more information on MCC, SBA 504 loans or the FMLP program, contact Hurn at ...

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Cool Show: Experience The Devil Makes Three's acoustic folk punk

2012-05-24T04:05:36Z

Where: Wooly’s, 504 E. Locust St. Cost: $12.50 in advance, $15 at the door. Other shows worth seeing this week Sioux City Pete: Delta blues at Vaudeville Mews, 212 Fourth St. 10 p.m. Sunday. $5. The New Black 7: Country/southern rock at The ...

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Chase Lends, Extends Small Business Lead

2012-05-22T03:10:42Z

And Chase became the outright leader in the SBA’s 504 program, which provides long-term, fixed-rate financing with non-profit Certified Development Companies. Chase approved 213 such loans for $155 million, more loans for more dollars than any ...

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Banks Take Home SBA’s Top Lender Awards

2012-05-21T12:30:14Z

The SBA recognized two certified development companies for their efforts in helping finance small business expansion through the agency’s 504 loan program. HEDCO of Honolulu was honored as the Large Certified Development Company of the Year ...

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Chase Lends, Extends Small Business Lead

2012-05-21T09:59:55Z

Nebeker defeats Dunzer for county commission

2012-05-16T14:09:13Z

With the unofficial final results counted, she received 1,254 votes (70 percent) to Dunzer’s 504 (28 percent). The two were running to replace Commissioner Patricia Roberts, who will step down from her position as the board’s District 2 ...

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Nebeker defeats Dunzer for county commission

2012-05-16T14:09:13Z

Nebeker defeats Dunzer, will join county commission

2012-05-16T10:05:50Z

She has 1,254 votes (70 percent) to Dunzer’s 504 (28 percent). Commissioner Patricia Roberts will step down from her position as the board’s District 2 representative in December at the end of her term. The longest-serving commissioner, appointed to ..

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11:30 am: Briefing call to Discuss SBA’s Expansion of Eligibility for Loans for Small Businesses

2012-05-02T15:58:53Z

The temporary 7(a) loan size standard will parallel the standard for the agency’s 504 Certified Development Company loan, and will allow businesses to qualify based on net worth and average income. The net worth for the company and its affiliates can’t

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The Buzz: 4 things on our radar

2012-04-24T12:26:28Z

Tickets will be $20 and go on sale through ticketfly.com at 10 a.m. on Friday. Other upcoming shows at Wooly’s, 504 E. Locust St., include Joshua Radin with Tristan Prettyman on July 20. 4. Moda hair salon to open in Windsor Heights.

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The Buzz: 4 things on our radar

2012-04-24T12:04:59Z

The Buzz: 4 things on our radar

2012-04-24T08:15:55Z

County-funded development agency helps local businesses, recruits new ones

2012-04-22T07:21:02Z

The EDC's $450,000 budget includes $169,000 in contributions from member investors, and revenue from the Small Business Administration's 504 loan program and other loan programs. Arveschoug also hopes to add to a $400,000 cookie jar known simply ...

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County-funded development agency helps local businesses, recruits new ones

2012-04-22T01:44:35Z

Interview: Charlie Daniels, on his love of golf

2012-04-18T19:43:04Z

Country music legend Charlie Daniels is still going strong at age 75, touring the world to play familiar hits such as Grammy Award-winning "The Devil Went Down To Georgia," "In America" and "The South's Gonna Do It." His band, The Charlie Daniels Band ...

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Schedule adds to Saints' woes

2012-04-15T22:02:38Z

As if things weren't bad enough for the New Orleans Saints, add the schedule to their growing list of problems. Head coach Sean Payton will start his season-long suspension Monday. Interim coach Joe Vitt is out the first six games, and general ...

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Nest Counters Honeywell Allegations of Patent Infringement Nest Files Answer and Counterclaims to Honeywell Complaint

2012-04-12T08:58:47Z

And one doesn't need an exhaustive literature search to conclude that Honeywell's '504 patent on presenting a user of an HVAC controller with "complete grammatical sentences" is not worthy of a patent, though a quick search does turn up prior U.S. Patent .

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AP Sportlight

2012-04-11T09:21:27Z

2005 — Smithtown (N.Y.) High School's co-ed badminton team defeats Miller Place (N.Y.) High School 10-5 to end Miller Place's 504-match win streak, the longest sports winning streak in U.S. history. For Miller Place, it is the first loss in the program's

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AP Sportlight

2012-04-11T08:31:20Z

2005 - Smithtown (N.Y.) High School's co-ed badminton team defeats Miller Place (N.Y.) High School 10-5 to end Miller Place's 504-match win streak, the longest sports winning streak in U.S. history. For Miller Place, it is the first loss in the ...

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AP Sportlight

2012-04-07T03:56:55Z

CCCT Education program offers programs for all students

2012-04-05T01:14:39Z

The Cleburne County Board of Education’s 504 Coordinator is Dr. Mary Harrington, 93 Education Street, Heflin, Alabama 36264 (Phone 256-463-5624).

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CCCT Education program offers programs for all students

2012-04-05T01:14:39Z

The Cleburne County Board of Education’s 504 Coordinator is Dr. Mary Harrington, 93 Education Street, Heflin, Alabama 36264 (Phone 256-463-5624).

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SUTTER v. OXFORD HEALTH PLANS LLC

2012-04-02T19:54:53Z

Stolt–Nielsen, 130 S.Ct. at 1767 (quoting Major League Baseball Players Ass'n. v. Garvey, 532 U.S. 504, 509, 121 S.Ct. 1724, 149 L.Ed.2d 740 (2001) (per curiam) (quoting Steelworkers v. Enterprise Wheel & Car Corp., 363 U.S. 593, 597, 80 S.Ct.

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SUTTER v. OXFORD HEALTH PLANS LLC

2012-04-02T19:54:53Z

Mercantile Capital CEO says SBA should outsource debt recovery

2012-03-30T15:40:45Z

who is CEO of Mercantile Capital Corp. Mercantile Capital is a bank that teams with nonprofit certified development companies to make commercial real estate loans through the SBA’s 504 program. Hurn is an aggressive promoter of the 504 program ...

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Seven Springs felon caught with cocaine in Goldsboro home

2012-03-27T23:29:36Z

The Wayne County Sheriff’s Office’s Aggressive Criminal Enforcement team took Davis and a co-defendant, 54-year-old Reginald Sherwood Grady, Jr., into custody Saturday night after executing a search warrant at Grady’s 504 Scott St. home in Goldsboro.

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Plastics molder buys $12.5 million headquarters

2012-03-24T03:30:34Z

The company now has 80 injection molding machines and 435 employees. Job creation is one of the requirements of a company's use of the SBA's 504 loan program.

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Richard Mourdock’s Big Shot

2012-03-22T19:46:28Z

I recently wrote a short piece on Senate candidate Richard Mourdock’s claims regarding Senator Lugar’s position on Obamacare. I stand by what I said – Mr. Mourdock is being dishonest and needs to stick to the issues. However, quite a few ...

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Chipper Jones a shoo-in for Hall

2012-03-22T12:08:20Z

316 among switch-hitters. His 454 home runs rank third behind only Mantle’s 536 and Murray’s 504. Switch-hitting is extremely difficult, requiring twice the work as hitters seek to remain sharp from both sides. In addition, Jones is ...

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Midwest Business Capital Closes its Fifth Small Business Administration 504 Loan Pool Using an Important SBA Program to Help Finance Small Businesses

2012-03-13T08:08:28Z

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Midwest Business Capital (MBC) (http://midwestbusinesscapital.com) closed its fifth SBA loan pool making MBC one of the most active users of a program that facilitates small bank origination of SBA ...

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Midwest Business Capital Closes its Fifth Small Business Administration 504 Loan Pool Using an Important SBA Program to Help Finance Small Businesses

2012-03-13T05:59:37Z

Midwest Business Capital (MBC) has become one of the most active participants in the Small Business Administration's 504 pooling program. This important SBA program assists community banks in providing financing for the acquisition of new buildings and ...

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Small firms thrive with incentive from SBA

2012-03-12T07:19:33Z

Both segments are key areas of focus for the agency. In SBA’s 504 program for real estate and other fixed assets, eight lenders have made 15 loans for $7.5 million since October. M&T again leads, with four loans for $3.27 million, followed by ...

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Small firms thrive with incentive from SBA

2012-03-12T05:53:39Z

Both segments are key areas of focus for the agency. In SBA's 504 program for real estate and other fixed assets, eight lenders have made 15 loans for $7.5 million since October. M&T again leads, with four loans for $3.27 million, followed by ...

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House Small Business Committee Targets Sba For Cuts

2012-03-07T15:22:21Z

It also recommends ending funding for a program that allows business owners who own their buildings to refinance their mortgages through the SBA’s 504 program. This program is costing taxpayers more than the SBA said it would, the committee ...

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Small Business Financing May Suffer From Obama's Proposed Budget and Political Wrangling

2012-02-26T10:19:14Z

The agency's 504 program is for fixed assets and most suitable to build, expand or purchase real estate. More recently, SBA initiated a temporary 504 program to "rescue" borrowers who have existing loans with balloon balances coming due and find that take

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WOJTOWICZ: Temporary program helps refinance commercial mortgages

2012-02-24T14:32:09Z

But it may only take a phone call for you to clear the hurdle in your path. Congress put a temporary program into place that allows the Small Business Administration’s 504 loan program to be used to refinance commercial real estate at attractive terms.

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Small Business Financing May Suffer From Obama's Proposed Budget and Political Wrangling

2012-02-21T10:10:51Z

Dog sculptures surface to raise awareness, money for SPCA

2012-02-19T07:50:04Z

That bead dog, dubbed the Crescent City Canine, was painted by artist Paulette Lizano with symbols of New Orleans, from crawfish to the city’s 504 area code. “It was kind of exciting,” Estopinal said. Richard Rainey can be reached at ...

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Solera National Bancorp Earns $242,000, or $0.09 per share, in 2011

2012-01-30T09:25:22Z

“The SBA’s 504 program provides long-term, fixed-rate financing to acquire major fixed assets for expansion or modernization; and the SBA 7(a) loan program will provide funding for working capital needs, inventory financing and other operating purposes

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Information fair offered options, assistance

2012-01-28T21:30:43Z

When a student is identified as eligible, an Individual Program Plan is written for the student by a committee that includes a teacher, the principal, and the school’s 504 coordinator. In addition the school system offers adapted physical ...

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Information fair offered options, assistance

2012-01-28T21:30:43Z

SBA's Mills Visits Growing Small Business that is Creating Jobs

2012-01-26T14:16:26Z

Always Bagels' new Lebanon plant, funded by SBA's 504 program through Seedcopa Community Economic Development Corporation, produces about 400,000 bagels daily for sale nationwide and internationally. Always Bagels, Inc. was founded as a retail bakery in ..

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SBA's Mills Visits Growing Small Business that is Creating Jobs

2012-01-25T18:56:48Z

Always Bagels' new Lebanon plant, funded by SBA's 504 program through Seedcopa Community Economic Development Corporation, produces about 400,000 bagels daily for sale nationwide and internationally. To request an interview or photographs, please contact .

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Among Small-Business Advocates, Reaction to President’s Plan Is Mixed

2012-01-14T08:11:17Z

which represents lenders in the S.B.A.’s 504 loan program. In a reorganization, “they become the model for the collapse of the far-flung bureaucracies into one unit called small-business lending — worldwide. If anything, even in a larger ...

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Fewer local businesses are taking advantage of SBA’s ‘504’ loans

2012-01-11T01:48:17Z

Low interest Despite low interest rates, fewer Valley business owners are borrowing through a government business loan program aimed at increasing employment, though the amount lent has climbed. Government help for jobs Under the U.S. Small ...

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Hundreds gather at service to remember those killed in Tucson attack that wounded Giffords

2012-01-08T15:49:22Z

Hundreds of people packed a massive Tucson cathedral on Sunday for a service to remember a bloody morning one year ago when a gunman's deadly rampage shook a community and shocked a nation. Girls in white dresses and red sashes danced down the aisle as a .

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MacPHERSON v. JPMORGAN CHASE BANK

2011-12-22T18:54:10Z

Liggett Group, Inc., 505 U.S. 504 (1992), in its discussion of a similar preemption argument: “The phrase ‘[n]o requirement or prohibition’ sweeps broadly and suggests no distinction between positive enactments and common law; to the contrary ...

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Restaurant inspections | PUBLIC RECORDS | Nov. 14 to Nov. 23

2011-12-11T03:15:10Z

Holy Spirit School, 1760 Lodge Ave., no violations. Independence Square, 201 W. Delaware St., no violations. Lic's, 504 N. Green River Road, no violations. Los Bravos, 4630 W. Lloyd Expressway, two critical violations: Food employees drinking ...

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NESHAMINY SCHOOLS Neshaminy board president responds to union's version of talks

2011-12-07T20:09:13Z

Boyd accused the board of manipulating scores and that a PSSA score ranking among Pennsylvania’s 504 school districts — which was included in the board’s recent presentation — is not tracked by the state. Webb, however, said Wednesday ...

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NESHAMINY SCHOOLS Neshaminy board president responds to union's version of talks

2011-12-07T17:24:35Z

Boyd accused the board of "manipulating" scores and that a ranking among Pennsylvania's 504 school district's PSSA scores -- which was included in the board's recent presentation -- is not tracked by the state. Webb, however, said Wednesday that ...

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NESHAMINY SCHOOLS Union: Talks a 'wasted evening'

2011-12-07T10:00:46Z

According to Boyd, when questioned about some of the information in his presentation by union officials Tuesday, Webb explained he manipulated PSSA data to establish a ranking system of Pennsylvania’s 504 school districts. Boyd said that the ...

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NESHAMINY SCHOOLS Union: Talks a 'wasted evening'

2011-12-06T22:12:06Z

Holiday Homes Tours reports record attendance in its seventh year

2011-12-06T02:45:18Z

Bill Hougland’s 504 Canyon Drive home was one of the residences featured. He smiled as he looked across the room and mingled with visitors. He explained how he and his wife, Carolie, have been preparing the house since they returned from ...

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Titan Awards

2011-12-05T12:26:18Z

not-for-profit organization was first created to administer U.S. Small Business Administration’s 504 loan and refinance programs and Enterprise Development’s own Microloan program. SBA 504 loans lend money at a low interest rate to ...

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Right-to-Work Law Curbing Unions Sought by Romney, Republicans

2011-11-22T18:53:57Z

Labor leaders failed to win legislation making it easier to organize a union after Democratic allies triumphed in the 2008 elections. Next year’s voting may spawn instead a law letting workers opt out of unions. Republicans in Congress are ...

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Right-to-Work Law Curbing Unions Sought by Romney, Republicans

2011-11-22T18:53:57Z

Successor To Slain Pakistani Minister Shahbaz Bhatti: “Equal Rights For All”

2011-11-17T19:14:12Z

The Minister is currently trying to help the country’s 504 Catholic institutions, many of which are schools and mostly attended by wealthy non-Christians, to become more accessible to the Christian poor. Education plays a key role in fostering peaceful .

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