CSBJ Daily

A 10.9 percent increase in mortgage loan application volume for the week ending June 6 was boosted both by an 8.4 percent bump in refinance applications and a 12.8 percent upswing in new purchases, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
Conventional loan borrowers increased 11 percent on a week-over-week basis, while government […]

<p>Congress is exploring options for food safety in the wake of  the nationwide salmonella outbreak.</p><p>Jeffrey Levi, executive director of Trusts for America’s  Health, testified before Congress and urged the Food and Drug Administration to  provide detailed plans to make food safer.</p><p>His report identified major gaps in the nation’s food safety  system, including obsolete laws, misallocation […]

Canadian mining company International Beryllium Corp. has acquired the Boomer mine in Park County.
The mine, which is near Lake George, about 50 miles west of Colorado Springs, was the second largest producing beryllium mine in the United States from 1948 until 1963 and was the largest beryllium ore producer in 1958.
The mine […]