The Town-Gown Dilemma
For the first time in U.S. history, the majority of jobless workers over age 25 have at least some college education. Of 9 million Americans looking for work in April, 4.7 million had gone to college,...
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Since opening in February 2011, Jamie Hargrove, pictured, and his partner Roger Madden have grown their Lexington and Louisville-based estate planning specialty practice from 18 to 50 employees and...
View ArticleBusiness Briefs — July 2012
ASHLAND • King’s Daughters Medical Center has laid off an unspecified number of employees, citing declining patient volumes, shrinking Medicare/Medicaid payments and other economic factors. In a...
View ArticleCorporate Moves — July 2012
BANKING/FINANCE Luke A. Bobey has joined KBS Capital Markets Group in Louisville as regional vice president for the Ohio River region. EDUCATION Quentin Tyler has been named assistant dean for...
View ArticleOn The Boards — July 2012
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION • Ardis Dee Hoven, M.D. has been elected president-elect of the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest physician organization. Hoven, who is an internal...
View ArticleNews from Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia — July 2012
INDIANA • Roche Diagnostics Corp. is investing $300 million over the next 10 years at its 160-acre North American headquarters campus in Indianapolis. The capital investments, which will include the...
View ArticleDimmer Outlook For Energy Sector
The E.W. Brown Generating Station on Herrington Lake in Mercer County has three coal units totaling 700 megawatts, supplemented by six natural gas/fuel oil turbine unites that can generate 768...
View ArticleNew York Entrepreneur Reopening Somerset Petroleum Refinery
Demetrios Haseotes, CEO of Menands, N.Y.-based Hemisphere Management Corp., bought a boutique refinery in Somerset last year for $1.17 million and is spending another $10 million to put it back in...
View ArticleHealthier Financial Incentives
As part of a nationwide effort to make U.S. healthcare less fractured, less expensive and more efficient, a special Humana Inc.-Norton Healthcare partnership has been exploring how to create a viable...
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