CSBJ Daily

Hotel construction may be one of the few national bright areas for new construction in 2008, and a few local projects could make that the case locally, too.
Lodging Econometrics, said that the further quarter “pipeline” rose 36 percent from the same quarter in 2006.
Specifically, data through Jan. 25 showed projects […]

El Paso County experienced a dramatic rise in flu cases last month.
“In January 2008, El Paso County reported 22 hospitalized individuals with the flu, which represents a marked difference as compared to January 2007 when only three cases were reported,” said Dr. Bernadette Albanese, medical director for the El […]

Dow Jones and Company announced that Bank of America Corp. and Chevron Corp. will replace Altria Group, Inc., and Honeywell International, Inc., in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, effective with the opening of trading on February 19. The stock index is 111 years old.
These are the first changes since April […]

The Associated Press
SEATTLE _ Starbucks Corp. is teaming up with AT&T Inc. and will start offering a mix of free and paid wireless Internet service in many of its U.S. coffee shops, beginning this spring.
The world’s largest specialty coffee retailer’s move ends a six-year partnership T-Mobile, which did not include […]