Publication: Central Valley Business Times

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Tax preparer admits tax evasion

am Also structured more than $1 million of withdrawals from her bank accounts Now faces up to 15 years in prison Nohemi Villarreal Noriega, 54, of Patterson, pleaded guilty today to one count of tax evasion and one count of structuring bank transactions ... [Published Central Valley Business Times - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Tax Evasion, Taxes, prison

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

University of California Davis

Some workers strike UC Davis Hospital

am Protesting stalled labor talks Seven UC hospitals are being struck statewide Picket lines are up around the University of California, Davis, medical center Tuesday as some workers, represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal ... [Published Central Valley Business Times - 5 hours ago]

Entities: University of California Davis, Workers, American Federation of State, County and Munici...

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Former Fresno investment manager sentenced to prison

pm Defrauded investors of more than $3.3 million A Ponzi-like scheme for five years Joseph Randall Medcalf, 56, formerly an investment manager in Fresno, has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison for a scheme to defraud investors, says U.S. ... [Published Central Valley Business Times - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Fresno (California, United States), Investment Manager, prison, Fraud, US Attorney

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Tulare cousins sent to prison for taxpayer fraud

pm Defrauded 75 taxpayers of their tax refunds In addition to prison time, they have to repay their victims Wheres my tax refund? If you used Roberto Olivares or Rojelio Martin of Tulare to prepare the return, the answer could be in their pockets.The ... [Published Central Valley Business Times - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Fraud, prison, Taxes

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

AUDIO: Forget that resume, says career coach

pm Why traditional job seeking tools are ineffective Dont think of yourself as a job searcher How many times have you heard it: A friend whos out of work sends out hundreds upon hundreds of resumes but never gets a call to come in for an interview.Is ... [Published Central Valley Business Times - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Seattle, Smartphone

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

California Department of Transportation

More concerns raised about new Bay Bridge structural integrity

pm Lawmaker reacts to newspapers revelations Everything needs to be laid out on the table and examined Following another round of revelations questioning engineering decisions that have gone into building the new $6.3 billion eastern span of the Bay Bridge, ... [Published Central Valley Business Times - 14 hours ago]

Entities: California Department of Transportation, Tendinitis, Galvanism, Jerry Brown, Corrosion

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

University of Nevada Reno

The incredible shrinking plants

am Climate change blamed for smaller and smaller plants Has implications for primary productivity Plants are shrinking in the Great Basin of Nevada, and warming climate could be the culprit, according to a paper published Monday in the science journal ... [Published Central Valley Business Times - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Species, Climate, University of Nevada Reno

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Senators call for tighter control of energy swap markets

am Say oversight is lacking When $8 Billion is a mere trifle The six West Coast U.S. Senators say the Dodd-Frank Act may be undermined by the lack of enforcement efforts by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that have exempted the vast majority ... [Published Central Valley Business Times - May 20 2013]

Entities: Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Dodd-Frank, Gary Gensler, Speculations, Maria Cantwell

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

Student businesses to be featured at regional competition

am Five to be picked to compete nationally This competition is really empowering for the high school students The top five Central Valley high school students from the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), a program offered by Fresno States Lyles ... [Published Central Valley Business Times - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Entrepreneurship, Central Valley (United States), Fresno (California, United States), Teaching, Reedley (United States)

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

California: Worst in nation for least-educated poor

am Even poor Texas families have more education Sapping the states strengths and pocketbook California has the nations least educated low-income working population, according to a report from the Campaign for College Opportunity.In 2011, 47.9 percent ... [Published Central Valley Business Times - May 20 2013]

Entities: Education, Workers

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Forecast: Rising GDP despite fiscal threats

am Measuring the impact of the Great Sequester Predicting an improvement in the unemployment rate for this year and next year The nations economy may grow by 2.4 percent in real GDP from the fourth quarter of 2012 to the fourth quarter of 2013 and might ... [Published Central Valley Business Times - May 20 2013]

Entities: National Defense University, Threat, Ken Simonson, Unemployment Rate

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

California food maker being bought by Minnesota company

am Overhill Farms being acquired by Bellisio Foods Deal is valued at $80.9 Million Overhill Farms Inc. (NYSE MKT: OFI) of Los Angeles is being acquired by Bellisio Foods Inc. of Minneapolis, Minn., in a deal valued at $80.9 million.Overhill Farms makes ... [Published Central Valley Business Times - May 20 2013]

Entities: Overhill Farms Inc, Bellisio Foods, Boston Market

Quotes

"In an age of smartphones, three-terabyte computers, and online everything, why are we still using these antiquated and ineffective tools?" he asks of those still creating blizzards of resumes

AUDIO: Forget that resume, says career coach [Published Central Valley Business Times - 14 hours ago]

"We are excited to build on our partnerships with organizations that have trusted relationships in diverse communities throughout the state" says Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California

Outreach program to spend $37 Million in California to publicize Affordable Car Act [Published Central Valley Business Times - May 14 2013]

Emily Harris, statewide coordinator of Californians United for a Responsible Budget: "The Californians who have suffered the most from cuts to the safety net, to public housing, to job programs, and to increases in the cost of higher education are the same Californians whose family members have been swept into prisons and jails. Let's be clear that the state has been spending money on poor Californians and communities of color. That money has been spent on more police, jails, more prisons -- programs that destroy lives, destroy families and destroy neighborhoods."

Brown: spend more on schools [Published Central Valley Business Times - May 14 2013]

...which principally involves re-entering various wells on our Delaney Tunnell property in Santa Maria," says John Alexander, president and CEO. "We are currently working to secure the required state drilling permits and a contract rig, and hope to commence drilling operations during the second half of the year."

Sales, profits ebb at Pyramid Oil [Published Central Valley Business Times - May 14 2013]

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