— Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette, December 29, 2009 Word just in from CONSOL Energy Inc. that will be welcome news for 500 coal miners and their families up in the Clay County area of West Virginia. [read post]

In your written responses, you indicate that you have taken a number of corrective actions, which include performing an intensified cleaning and sanitizing of your production area; conducting a root cause analysis in response to our environmental findings; shutting down (redacted) to perform targeted remediation work, clean and sanitize, and conduct verification swabbing; conducting a refresher training for employees; and performing intensified cleaning of all utensils, work… [read post]

The treaty will not be completed, but work will continue. [read post]

Ohio’s tangible personal property tax, levied by local taxing authorities alongside real property taxes, raised a combined $1.7 billion in local revenues in fiscal year 2005, much of which flowed to school districts ($1.2 billion), though counties ($319 million), cities and villages ($92 million), and townships ($67 million) also leaned on the tax as a source of revenue.[13] Tangible personal property taxes are “taxpayer active,” meaning that taxpayers bear the compliance… [read post]