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Sterling Heights to Consider New Landscaping Amendment
The City Council of Sterling Heights, Michigan is considering an amendment that would require certain landscaping ordinances for its residents this summer. CandG Newspapers reports that on May 14th, the Sterling Heights Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend to the City Council certain regulations regarding single-family residential homes. The amendment stipulates that these homes will…
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Orange County Chanel Boutique, Other Brands See Increase in Sales
The Chanel boutique in Orange County, California is doing exceptionally well as the economic recession continues to improve — at least for some. The Orange County Register reports that the boutique reopened on April 23rd in a new location at the South Coast Plaza. With 2,000 additional square feet and neighbors such as Tiffany and…
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Did Plumbing Problems Cause Walmart to Lay Off 2,200 of Its Employees?
Walmart makes an average profit of $1.8 million every minute. In 2012, its net sales were $466 billion, more than Argentina’s GDP. Walmart employs 2.2 million people, more than the population of Houston, and every day, about 2.35 million people shop at Walmart, as much as the population of Canada. The monolithic retail empire is…
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Verizon’s 2015 Data Security Report Reveals How Data Breaches Have Affected the Healthcare Industry
In its latest annual digital security report, Verizon found some interesting — albeit somewhat scary — connections between large-scale data breaches in 2014 and simple mistakes that could have been prevented, specifically pertaining to commercial POS systems and digital storage devices. The 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report found that, throughout 2014, nearly 80,000 security “incidents”…
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Chinese Government Offers Support to Struggling Property Developers
A study from Bankrate once found that 76% of everyday consumers were wary of the stock market, finding it too risky and complicated. For this reason, perhaps, many people in the United States and around the world have begun to prefer investing in property, which is often seen as more stable and advantageous. This is…
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New York State Attorney General’s Office Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter to Prominent Supplement Retailers
Americans generally assume that the medications, foods and other ingestible products they purchase are safe. And why shouldn’t they? The United States has measures in place to monitor the quality of everything from the actual product to the integrity of its packaging, with additional ASTM standards and FDA requirements to guide companies looking to meet…
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Salesman Admits Role in $100 Million Blood Lab Bribery Scheme
The circle of people involved in a $100 million bribery scheme keeps growing — most recently with a salesman’s admission of funneling $400,000 in kickbacks to a doctor. The scheme was run through Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services, a blood lab in Parsippany, NJ. According to ParsippanyFocus.com, Michael Zarrelli, 48, plead guilty this week for his role…
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Washington D.C. Design Firms Surveyed About Designing the Perfect Website
Web designers are always looking for fresh insights and leads on how to connect to a web-hungry populace. Last week, Washington Business Journal Research Director Carolyn M. Proctor polled eight Washington D.C. website designers on the ins and outs of building a website. The responses of these leading experts of their field illustrate the need for user-friendly…
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City Finds New Home for Hundreds of City Government Employees as Part of Neighborhood Revitalization Project
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, roughly 43 million Americans — 16.8% of the population — relocate every year, with work-related moves being one of the most common. Now, the city of Louisville, KY is in the midst of coordinating a pretty big move of its own. Close to 300 city government employees who currently…
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How College Education is Evolving
Stanford University professor of education Mitchell Stevens has stated that he believes the traditional four-year on-campus experience of many college students is not the best way for them to learn. Part of the problem is that colleges and universities aren’t as well regulated as lower-grade schools, so it can be difficult to tell which institutions…