Publication: Business First of Buffalo

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Boilermakers to offer 10 apprenticeships

The Boilermakers Northeast Joint Apprenticeship Committee, Local Lodge No. 7, is recruiting apprentices.Applicants must be 18 and older. They can apply through April 3, 2014, for 10 boilermaker (construction) apprenticeships. Applications can be obtained ... [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 24 2013]

Entities: Orchard Park Ltd, Construction

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Passage rate for school budgets is well above average

New York voters were in a positive mood about school budgets in this week's elections.The New York State School Boards Association reports that 95.5 percent of budgets across the state were approved. That surpasses the average passage rate since 1969, ... [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 23 2013]

Entities: Elections

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Pay-for-performance an issue for bank execs

Banks large and small continue to struggle when it comes to tying executive pay to performance, according to a new report.Nearly 70 percent of CEOs, directors and chairmen who responded to Bank Director’s annual compensation survey say that linking compensation ... [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 22 2013]

Entities: Pay-for-performance, United States

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Lake Erie Health sees 'necessary consolidations"

Two months after severing ties with its CEO, the Lake Erie Regional Health System is making additional staffing changes, citing changes in the fiscal environment for health-care providers.But the details of those changes remain hazy.The health system, ... [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 22 2013]

Entities: LAKE SHORE INC, Health Care, Environment

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Hearing will help determine Statler funding decision

Empire State Development Corp. has set a public hearing on the request for funding targeted for the Statler City project.The state agency has set a June 4 public hearing, set for 9 a.m. in Room 1317 of Buffalo City Hall, as part of the public process ... [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 21 2013]

Entities: Buffalo City, Empire State Development

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Manufacturing

Connecting qualified candidates to job openings

A gap exists at the intersection of job training and employer needs in Buffalo.If you don’t believe that, just ask any advanced manufacturer, or healthcare organization, or general employer facing a wave of Baby Boomer retirements.“I don’t think younger ... [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 22 2013]

Entities: Emily Martin, Baby Boomer, Manufacturing

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Cummins Inc

Cummins updates sustainability progress

Cummins Inc. has issued its 2012-2013 sustainability report, noting that it recycles nearly 90 percent of its waste, has reduced water consumption by 47 percent over the last five years and greenhouse gas emissions by 4,300 tons.The report also includes ... [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 22 2013]

Entities: Cummins Inc, Sustainability, Greenhouse Gas, Recycling

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Never wanted to start company says Twitter founder (Video)

Never wanted to start company says Twitter founder (Video) ... [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 22 2013]

Entities: Twitter

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

AG: New Yorkers received ‘far more’ in mortgage deal than expected

A report released this week from the monitor of the National Mortgage Settlement showed that residents in New York have recouped nearly $2 billion in the first year of the program.In addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars in relief from lenders ... [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 22 2013]

Entities: Mortgages, Eric Schneiderman, Attorney General

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Vacancy at top of Buffalo FBI office

Christopher Piehota, special agent in charge of the FBI office in Buffalo, has been promoted and is now director of the Terrorist Screening Center in Washington, D.C., a multiagency organization known for its Terrorist Watchlist.Piehota had worked there ... [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 22 2013]

Entities: FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation, watchlist, Terrorist Screening Center, Terrorists, Special Agent

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

3 WNY companies cash in on NYPA program

New York Power Authority board of trustees on May 21 approved more than $6 million of funding awards to three Western New York enterprises: Launch NY, Coolture and Diversified Manufacturing.The awards represent the first grants under legislation signed ... [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 22 2013]

Entities: New York Power Authority, Andrew Cuomo, Net Earnings, Hydro Power, Power Plant

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Investigation says Ontario's casinos are money-losing operations

Ontario's four resort-style casinos have lost a combined $360 million in the past six years.A Hamilton Spectator investigation found that those same facilities gave out $1.6 billion in freebies and cash incentives to gamblers during the same period.The ... [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 22 2013]

Entities: Casino, Investigation, Robert Williams

Quotes

The paper's James Bradshaw writes: "Perhaps because of the relentlessly bleak climate, many students now accept that their path to a stable lifestyle may involve years pinballing their way up the ranks with a mixture of interning, contract work and networking. As a result, they have been calling for…"

Jobs remain in short supply, so how will colleges respond? [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 21 2013]

The Toronto Star reports that a cellphone video appears to show Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine. The paper says the video "is being shopped around Toronto by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade."

New video shows mayor allegedly smoking crack cocaine [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 17 2013]

Olive writes: "If the CTC is prepared to give upup on the world’s richest market, right next door, it’s worth asking if there’s any point to a CTC that can’t sell the world’s most nearly-perfect country to the Yanks."

Is Canada giving up on attracting American tourists? [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 14 2013]

From The Spectrum, at the University at Buffalo: "Thank you to every professor who ever held a lecture I didn’t have to fight the urge to sleep through."

Looking around local campuses 5/13/13 [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 13 2013]

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Vacancy at top of Buffalo FBI office [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 22 2013]
Hearing will help determine Statler funding dec... [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 21 2013]
Jobs remain in short supply, so how will colleg... [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 21 2013]
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LaFalce resigns as ECIDA chairman [Published Business First of Buffalo - May 20 2013]
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