CSBJ Daily

The Base Realignment and Closing Commission estimated that construction costs to implement their most recent recommendations would be about $13 billion.
But, a Government Accountability Office report released today estimates those costs to reach nearly $20 billion.
Army Corps of Engineers officials said the actual rate of construction inflation for the […]

Despite tighter bank lending standards and loan demand declines, Colorado bankers expect little change in total bank lending next year and even growth in commercial lending.
The measure of optimism comes from a Colorado Bankers Association survey of perceptions of business conditions by several hundred Colorado bankers between Dec. 3 and […]

Wall Street financial giant Lehman Brothers says Internet advertising spending will reach nearly $311 billion next year, up 4 percent from this year.
Also real estate advertising budgets are projected to grow by 12 percent next year and reach $8 billion by 2012.
Authors of the firm’s annual advertising trend report also […]

The Australian Tunarama competition to see who can throw a frozen tuna the farthest will be missing something next year — the fish.
In an effort to further the country’s “green” environmental policies, Tunarama officials said they have stopped using real fish, because for one, it was a waste of perfectly good […]