Archives » January 8th, 2008

The devil’s in the stock details

A conservative Christian pastor says he’s launching a high-profile campaign to urge religious followers to buy up corporate stock in an attempt to stop mega-corporations from financing “ungodly ventures.”
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that the Rev. Ken Hutcherson of Antioch Bible Church in Washington is convincing followers to start buying shares of Microsoft and begin the […]

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China using energy subsidies to boost steel production

China has boosted its steel output during the last three years through energy subsidies, said the Alliance for American Manufacturing.
Total Chinese energy subsidies for steel reached $27.1 billion during the last seven years. Despite the country’s entry into the World Trade Organization – which deems subsidies on steel illegal – the subsides continued to grow, […]

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Commercial real estate investment tops $24 billion

Construction, operation and maintenance of commercial real estate properties accounted for more than 10 percent of Colorado’s total economic output during 2007.
Independent researchers commissioned by the Colorado chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties or NAIOP-Colorado, found that the state’s commercial real estate sector generated $24.3 billion in direct and indirect output […]

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El Paso County entering victim notification network

El Paso County will enter into a statewide network this year that will notify victims of crime about the status of their offenders 24 hours a day.
The County Sheriff’s of Colorado will announce the launch of the program, called the Victim Information and Notification Everyday, or Colorado VINE, tomorrow during the organization’s annual conference.
Thirty-nine states […]

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