Here are the details to go with the Home Life Q&A with Bob Cox Dodd Frank Financial Reform Act Its Rules and Ramifications for Seller Financing The Dodd Frank Financial Reform Act is the most sweeping financial reform legislation passed since the Glass Steagall Act in 1933. (aka The Banking Act of 1933) [...]
Long-time Mail Tribune readers will remember copy desk editor Birch Storm’s weekly “Offbeat” column where he shared a lot of reader feedback about the Meatless Taco, the Muted Trumpet and other permutations of this august publication. Birch passed away last week in Indiana. Birch was the irreverent sort, but less cynical than many people in the [...]
The lead story in today’s Mail Tribune (June 21, 2011) brought back old memories. Apparently things never change in the Rogue Valley, merely the players and details. One of the first stories I wrote when I went to work for the MT in the summer of 1979 was about baseball and beer. Sound familiar? During the [...]
Transport Topics, a trade magazine for the trucking industry, reports commercial trailer producers received 71 percent more orders in April than the same month last year. The 19,579 orders have helped push manufacturers’ backlog above 100,000 for the first time during the present economic recovery cycle. Transport Topics reported at least two manufacturers complained a [...]
Earthquakes, tsunamis, wild fires, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions — we’ve seen it all in the first half of 2011. Erickson Air-Crane crews often find themselves in the middle of catastrophic events. Such was the case last month during the wildfires that swept across Texas. Here is a letter sent by a grateful Texan to the company.
Unless you were a Trail Blazer fan during the Kermit Washington era you might never have heard of The American University, located just across the Maryland border in northwest Washington, D.C. I picked up a master’s degree at American University during the early Reagan Administration era before returning to the Rogue Valley. For years, I [...]
Thursday’s wintry weather was more of a nuisance to orchardists than a danger to fruit trees. However, the anticipated overnight low of 27 degrees was potential trouble for peach trees. “The coldest estimate we saw during a fruit grower meeting (Monday) was 27 and that should be fine for pears, but it would be damaging [...]
Newly released government filings, detail some of the issues PremierWest Bank and its parent company PremierWest Bancorp are working through to regain profitability. PremierWest’s filing shows that $100 invested in the bancorp’s stock on the final day of 2005, would have dwindled to $2.95 at the end of 2010. After earning $14.3 million and $14.8 [...]
The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards suggests it’s a good time to do some spring financial house cleaning. None of this comes from me, but with tax season in full swing, this material might help you or a friend: Tax season is in full bloom and Americans are up to their elbows in statements, [...]
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