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Special session to address immigration, but not JeffCo<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/birmingham/news/bentley,-robert*100.jpg?v=1'>Gov. Robert Bentley has signed a proclamation ordering state legislators back to work, but their agenda doesn?t include a revenue fix for Jefferson County,
The proclamation gives legislators a maximum of 12 days to continue work on key legislation. It also casts uncertainty on the future of the recently approved changes to the state?s controversial immigration law.
In a press release, Bentley cited provisions in the law that ?calls for school children to be interrogated about immigration...<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_birmingham/~4/Pm1lbs_v4OE" height="1" width="1"/>Corporate jets, expense reductions among topics at Regions shareholder meetingExpenses, corporate aircraft use and delayed disclosures were among the hot topics at Regions Financial Corp.?s Annual Meeting of Stockholders today.
Regions? top executives, shareholders and some members of the media, including myself, piled into the Regions Bank Auditorium this morning to hear more about the effect the economy and market conditions had on the company in 2011, as well as where the company is succeeding and what?s expected looking forward.
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_birmingham/~4/0gI3lWHErOA" height="1" width="1"/>Vineyard Vines makes Summit opening officialVineyard Vines has signed a lease with Bayer Properties for a location in The Summit between L?Occitane and Brooks Brothers.
The lease for the 3,800-square-feet property was effective as of May 9 and the projected opening date is late summer or early fall.
Vineyard Vines is an upscale clothing retailer catering to young men and women, but with a focus on men?s neckwear.
A Bayer Properties manager would not disclose the lease amount.
The BBJ first reported Vineyard Vines? plans to join the...<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_birmingham/~4/8YZeuNbGJHI" height="1" width="1"/>Hopes dim for special session to help JeffCoAlabama lawmakers refused this week to provide financial help for bankrupt Jefferson County through a new occupational tax, dashing hopes that new revenues will keep the government functioning.
Meanwhile, hopes for a special session that would give the county?s deeply divided legislative delegation more time to reach a consensus were dimming.
?Today, we are focused on the current session, and not on a future (special) session,? Gov. Robert Bentley?s press secretary, Jennifer Ardis told...<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_birmingham/~4/ZRLvF3QMDNs" height="1" width="1"/>Alabama foreclosures slip in AprilApril foreclosure filings have fallen each year since 2010 in Alabama, but a new report shows the trend is now leveling off.
Combined bank foreclosure and auction filings decreased 2 percent to 1,803 in April from 1,840 in the same month of 2011, according to the latest monthly report from foreclosure tracking firm RealtyTrac.
Of those filings, 650 were bank foreclosures and 1,153 were for auctions.
Even though the year-over-year trend points downward for Alabama, April?s filings were the highest...<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_birmingham/~4/G5KXluCISZ8" height="1" width="1"/>Birmingham lost 1,200 jobs over past yearBirmingham was one of 13 major metro areas that lost jobs between March 2011 and March 2012, according to a new report from On Numbers.
The area lost 1,200 jobs over the 12-month period. That 0.25 percent drop ranked 92nd among the nation's 100 largest metro areas, based on the data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Among other Southeastern metros, Nashville ranked 23rd (2.1 percent growth), Memphis ranked 26th (2 percent growth) and Atlanta ranked 50th (1.2 percent growth).
Stockton,...<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_birmingham/~4/9QsgkRu2kSc" height="1" width="1"/>Court expedites Martin Marietta's appeal on Vulcan takeover<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/VulcanMaterials_web*100.jpg?v=1'>The Delaware Supreme Court has agreed to fast-track Martin Marietta Materials Inc.?s appeal of a recent court ruling that blocked its takeover plans for Vulcan Materials Inc.
The appeal hearing is slated for May 25, just ahead of Vulcan?s (NYSE: VMC) annual June 1 shareholder?s meeting, where Martin (NYSE: MLM) planned to nominate several candidates for board of directors, according to reports by Bloomberg and Reuters today.
The recent order by Delaware Chancellor Leo Strine forbid Martin...<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_birmingham/~4/xvwz9lmx6QU" height="1" width="1"/>Hoover misses out on 2013 College CupDespite the event drawing strong attendance last year in Hoover, the 2013 College Cup has been awarded to Philadelphia, according to the Birmingham News.
Hoover, which will also host the 2012, also bid for the 2013 College Cup, which is the name for the final rounds of NCAA men's soccer championship tournament.
Organizers told the News they were pleased that the NCAA only awarded the 2013 event and not the 2014 event, which they said could be a signal they want to see how things go in Hoover this...<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_birmingham/~4/cavQjU8iB5Q" height="1" width="1"/>Lawmakers confront Air Force about moving cargo planesAlabama's congressional delegation confronted Air Force leaders in a closed-door meeting Wednesday about plans to move seven C-130 transport planes from a Montgomery Air Force Reserve unit, a sign that impending cuts to the defense budget are starting to take their toll.
According to the Birmingham News, the Air Force has said that it will move the 27-year-old planes out of the 908th Airlift Wing at Maxwell Air Force Base in 2014 as part of an overall downsizing announced earlier this year.
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_birmingham/~4/FHIr2gmgl7Q" height="1" width="1"/>Inaction means JeffCo occupational tax deadAny chances that state lawmakers could reconsider and pass a plan to let the Jefferson County Commission impose an occupational tax ended with the conclusion of the legislative session on Wednesday.
According to the Birmingham News, supporters assumed the tax bill was dead when the House of Representatives voted 18-12 to remove the tax plan from the calendar of bills to be debated, although technically it could have been brought back up in the final moments.
The tax plan, Senate Bill 567 by...<div class="feedflare">
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PJM plans $2B in grid upgrades
PJM Interconnection said Thursday that its board of directors has approved more than 130 upgrades worth nearly $2 billion to the transmission grid it manages.
The Valley Forge, Pa.-based grid operator and power wholesaler said the upgrades are necessary because of plans by generation companies on its grid to retire nearly 14,000 megawatts of generation capacity between May 2012 and the end of 2015. The capacity being retired consists mostly of older, coal-burning power plants, which are dirty and...<div class="feedflare">
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Firm trying to fight off GlaxoSmithKline takeover
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2010/11/16/Human-Genome-Sciences-HQ_web*100.jpg?v=1'>Human Genome Sciences Inc, which has rejected a hostile $13-per-share offer from GlaxoSmithKline, has adopted a short-term stockholder rights plan to fend off such unwanted attention.
Rockville, Md.-based Human Genome (NASDAQ:HGSI) said in a statement announcing the plan that it had declared a dividend of one share purchase right for each share of the company's common stock held of record at the close of business on May 29.
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The Barnes Foundation?s new home: Slideshow
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blog/peter-van-allen/1%20barnes%20and%20skyline*100.jpg?v=1'>The Barnes Foundation?s new site in Philadelphia will open this weekend.
After a 10-year process that included legal wrangling and the raising of $200 million, the Barnes moved its art collection from suburban Merion, Pa., to a brand new, 93,000-square-foot building on the Ben Franklin Parkway.
The collection includes works by Matisse, Picasso, van Gogh, Cezanne, Renoir, Prendergast, Monet and other masters.
It will open to the public on Saturday.
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Comcast raising customers' Internet data limit
Comcast Corp. said Thursday it will raise its data transmission limit on residential Internet customers from 250 gigabytes per month.
The Philadelphia-based telecommunications, media and entertainment giant said in a post on its blog that it will test two approaches, both of which will allow customers to send and receive at least 300 GB of data per month.
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Foreclosure filings up in Phila. region, down nationally: RealtyTrac
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/denver/THINKSTOCKForeclosureForecloseCar315*100.jpg?v=1'>Foreclosure filings declined nationally in April but rose locally, according to RealtyTrac, the California company that tracks the data.
RealtyTrac said foreclosure filings ? default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions ? were reported on 188,780 U.S. properties in April, the lowest monthly total since July 2007.
April foreclosure activity decreased 5 percent from the previous month and was down 14 percent from April 2011. One in every 698 U.S. housing units had a foreclosure...<div class="feedflare">
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IBC Foundation donates money to PCOM center in Phila.
The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Healthcare Center, Lancaster Avenue division, received a $50,000 grant from the Independence Blue Cross Foundation to implement a patient-centered medical home to improve primary-care services to residents in what the medical school described as an ?underserved and at-risk? West Philadelphia community.
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Auxilium says new patent further protects its Testim testosterone gel
The U.S. Patent and Trademark office issued another patent for Testim Thursday to Auxilium Inc. and FCB.
Auxilium, a testosterone gel, is marketed by Auxilium (NASDAQ:AUXL) under a license from FCB of Mahwah, N.J.
The patent, which the companies said claims certain pharmaceutical compositions comprising testosterone, is expected to expire in April 2023.
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Atlas Resource to buy Barnett Shale reserves, raises guidance
Atlas Resource Partners LP said Thursday it has agreed to acquire 250 billion cubic feet equivalent of natural-gas reserves in the Barnett Shale formation in Texas for $184 million in limited partner units.
The Philadelphia-based partnership struck the agreement with Titan Operating LLC, a privately held company based in Fort Worth, Texas.
Atlas Resource (NYSE:ARP) said the deal has been approved by its board of directors and will be effective as of Jan. 1, 2012. It expects the deal to close in...<div class="feedflare">
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Peco announces tree pruning locations in Delco
Peco Energy Co. said Thursday it will spend $1.4 million pruning trees along 300 miles of aerial electric lines in Philadelphia and Delaware County.
The Philadelphia-based electric-and-gas utility said the pruning will begin at the end of May and continue through early September. A list of the Delaware County communities that will see the pruning is here.
The subsidiary of Chicago-based Exelon Corp. (NYSE:EXC) will spend $28 million on its vegetation management program this year.<div class="feedflare">
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Philadelphia's 30 MVPs of the past 30 years: Slideshow
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/30%20MVP%20Banner%20fixed-0-549-1496-1193*100.jpg?v=1'>In June, the Philadelphia Business Journal celebrates 30 years of coverage and connections, and we?re sharing the love with special recognition for the individuals and organizations who have made extraordinary contributions to the region over the past generation.
With input from readers and editorial staff, we came up with a list of 30 people, companies and organizations that we believe have had major, lasting significance and deserve to be called Philadelphia?s Most Valuable Players (to see...<div class="feedflare">
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MN firm building and shipping houses to North Dakota
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/twincities/blog/opportunity_north_dakota/North.Dakota.Flag*100.jpg?v=1'>The labor shortage in oil-booming North Dakota is so acute that many of the area's new houses are being built and shipped in from other states.
A Rochester, Minn., company is taking advantage of the situation and building modular homes and trucking them 500 miles to the Williston area of western North Dakota, the Rochester Post-Bulletin reports.
Dale Jech, the owner of Creative Modular Concepts, says he has orders for 80 houses and plans to build 145 this year.
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Hecker moved to his fourth prison since February, and may move again
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/twincities/blog/law/2010/10/04_02_Heckermug*100.jpg?v=1'>Imprisoned former auto dealer Denny Hecker is on the move again.
Hecker, who lived in three different federal prisons in one week in February, now has been moved to a prison in Oklahoma City, KSTP.com reports.
And he may be moving again soon. KSTP reports that the "primary mission" of the Federal Transfer Center where Hecker is now is to serve as a transfer hub to somewhere else. But a government spokesman wouldn't speculate on any future moves that Hecker might make.
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H-P to eliminate 30,000 jobs... Postal Service to cut 28,000 positions... Gold has big day
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/twincities/images/National%20Roundup_icon*100.jpg?v=3'>Business news from around the Web:
H-P expected to eliminate 30,000 jobs in restructuring (All Things D)
Postal Service moves ahead with cost-savings plan that will cut 28,000 jobs (CNN)
Economic index drops after six months of gains (USA Today)
Gold sparkles after slump with biggest one-day gain since January (Fox)
Strong Wal-Mart profit trumps bribery probe concerns (Reuters)
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MN lost jobs in April, unemployment back to 5.6 percent
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/news/joblessWEEBB*100.jpg?v=1'>Minnesota's unemployment rate dropped in April while the state reported losing 3,100 jobs.
The state also reported that Minnesota's annual job growth rate was less than half of that nationwide.
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) reported Thursday that the state's seasonally-adjusted jobless rate fell to 5.6 percent.
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Sun Country offers flights to new destinations
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/twincities/suncountry*100.jpg?v=1'>Sun Country Airlines is offering new flights out of the Twin Cities to two vacation spots, plus expanding service to Boston and Seattle.
Mendota Heights-based Sun Country announced its 2013 winter schedule Thursday, which includes new nonstop flights out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to Tampa, Fla., and Huatulco, Mexico. The carrier will fly to Tampa four times a week and to Huatulco on Saturdays.
The company said it's also expanding its year-round service to Boston and Seattle.
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3M donation quiets the ape house at Smithsonian's National Zoo
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/Wester.Lowland.Gorilla*100.jpg?v=1'>3M Co. is helping a noisy zoo take it down a notch.
Maplewood-based 3M (NYSE: MMM) is donating acoustic tiles to the Great Ape House at the Smithsonian?s National Zoo, which is the home of six gorillas and six orangutans.
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Schwan's among MN firms honored for ethical practices
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/twincities/images/Schwans.Logo*100.jpg?v=2'>The Schwan Food Co. was among three companies to win the 2012 Minnesota Business Ethics Award (MBEA) for promoting ethical practices in the workplace.
Honored by the MBEA in the 13th annual competition on Wednesday were:
Murphy Automotive Inc. of Lakeville, which owns five car shops in the Twin Cities, won in the small company category.Western National Insurance Group of Edina, an insurance provider covering property and casualty for businesses, was the medium-sized company category winner.The...<div class="feedflare">
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J.P. Morgan loss grows; Buffett takes GM stake
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? Skechers settles on 'Shape-Up' claims dispute (Portfolio)
? J.P. Morgan's trading loss said to rise by 50 percent (NYT)
? Facebook insiders are cashing out (WSJ)
? Google tweaks search, hurting some firms (WSJ)
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Arden Hills: So about this old ammo dump ?
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/twincities/MorningRoundup*100.jpg?v=1'>Now that Arden Hills won't get a Minnesota Vikings stadium, government officials want the state to follow through on pledges to help clean up the long-abandoned Army ammunition plant that was to be the stadium site.
KARE-11 reports on the hopes of Ramsey County Commissioner Tony Bennett, who lives near the site and says it still has plenty of economic potential.
Gov. Mark Dayton said the state should help Arden Hills clean up the site. Ryan Cos. once considered redeveloping it, but scuttled those...<div class="feedflare">
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Caribe owners try Kickstarter to relaunch restaurant
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/twincities/MorningRoundup*100.jpg?v=1'>St. Paul's Caribe Caribbean Bistro, which closed last year amid Central Corridor light rail construction, could get a second life in Northeast Minneapolis.
The Pioneer Press reports that Caribe's owners are hoping to use online fundraising tool Kickstarter to raise capital for the new Caribe at the site of the former Amici Bistro.
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