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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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It's official: Facebook IPO prices at $38
Facebook's IPO has priced at $38 per share, the company reported in a news release issued minutes after markets closed, Thursday.
The pricing is at the top of a range set at the beginning of this week by Facebook Inc., and values the company at over $100 billion. Shares are set to begin trading on Friday.
From the Facebook news release:
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 421,233,615 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $38 per...<div class="feedflare">
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Harvard study: workplace inspections save money
A Harvard study argues that workplace inspections designed to prevent injuries do not cost jobs due to higher costs for businesses. In fact, the researchers say, they save money. The study, led by Harvard Business School professor Michael Toffel, along with University of California, Berkeley Professor David Levine and Boston University Ph.D. candidate Matthew Johnson, was published Thursday in Science magazine.
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Mass. Medical Society elects UMass Memorial's Aghababian its next prez
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/boston/news/0517-Richard-Aghababian-UMass-Memorial-Medical-Center-Mass.-Medical-Society-courtesy-315*100.jpg?v=1'>Former UMass Memorial Medical Center Emergency Medicine Chair Richard Aghababian has been elected to head the Massachusetts Medical Society. He succeeds Worcester, Mass., pediatrician Lynda Young.
The Southborough, Mass., resident served as chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School from 1994 to 2007. Aghababian has been a prolific editor and contributing author for textbooks on emergency medicine and disaster preparednes, the organization...<div class="feedflare">
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HP to cut up to 25,000 jobs (report); no word on Mass. layoffs
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanjose/print-edition/WOIWhitmanMeg*100.jpg?v=1'>Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) may cut as many as 25,000 jobs, or 8 percent of its workforce, according to a report from Bloomberg News that cites people familiar with the matter.
HP employs about 3,000 employees in Massachusetts, including at their Andover and Marlborough campuses. The Marlborough campus is around 133,000 square feet and is leased until 2016.
The state's Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development hasn't received any notice of layoffs from HP, spokeswoman Alison Harris...<div class="feedflare">
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Tufts plans level 3 biolab in Boston's Chinatown
Tufts University announced Wednesday that it is seeking approval from the Boston Public Health Commission to build a biosafety research laboratory within its medical school building, located on Harrison Avenue in Chinatown.
The new lab at 136 Harrison Ave. would be 1,700 square feet and a biosafety level three research facility with tuberculosis as its main focus of research, according to a press release from Tufts. The Tufts University School of Medicine is the only medical school in Massachusetts...<div class="feedflare">
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Broker-Dealer ordered to recover $1M+ in annuities sold to elderly widow
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/bottom_line/%20%20aaaRealEstate_Logo*100.jpg?v=1'>H. Beck, a Maryland-based broker-dealer, has been ordered by the Massachusetts Secretary of State to refund more than $1 million in annuities improperly sold to an elderly widow by one of its representatives.
The order, issued by the state's Securities Division, also imposes a $90,000 fine on H. Beck for failure to supervise Paul J. Dumouchel of Wellesley, who was a registered representative of the firm from February 2009 through November 2011, according to Secretary of the State William F. Galvin.
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Obama's other Vineyard vacation home for sale (slide show)
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/boston/real_estate/0517_ObamaOaksBluffHome*100.jpg?v=1'>The Martha?s Vineyard home where President Barack Obama vacationed on a secluded section of Nantucket Sound in Oak Bluffs is for sale at $3.29 million.
Obama?s senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, rented the 17-room ranch-style home at 89 East Chop Drive in the historic East Chop neighborhood for several years, and the first family vacationed there prior to and after Obama became president. Obama last visited in 2009.
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BU School of Management gets second multi-million-dollar gift from former Macy's exec
Allen Questrom, retired chief executive officer of several of the nation?s largest department and specialty stores, has given $10 million to the Boston University School of Management, according to BU Today, a university publication.
This is Questrom?s second multimillion dollar gift to the school. In 2007, Questrom gave the school gave $4 million for an endowed deanship and professorship called the Allen Questrom Professor and Dean.
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Boston small biz owners gloomier than other cities (survey)
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/orlando/blog/cash-register*100.jpg?v=1'>A Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) study says Boston small business owners are less confident in the future of their business than in other parts of the country.
Only 19 percent of Boston-area respondents to the study said they plan to hire more employees, compared to 31 percent nationwide. About 56 percent said they expected revenue to increase versus the national 61 percent, and 38 percent said they?d market their business to get more customers, 9 percentage points less than the nationwide figure.
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441 Stuart St. in Boston sells for $40M
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/boston/real_estate/0518_441Stuart*100.jpg?v=1'>Synergy Investment & Development inked a deal to buy 441 Stuart St. in Boston?s Back Bay for $40 million, according to two sources, less than a week after the Boston firm agreed to buy the InterContinental Garage on the Hub?s waterfront.
On Monday, the Boston Business Journal reported that the mostly gutted 11-story building at Stuart and Dartmouth streets attracted more than 100 potential buyers whose ideas for the property included apartments, offices or a hotel, with bids as high as $40 million....<div class="feedflare">
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