National Apartment Vacancy To Dip Down to 5% by Year End
ENCINO, CA-The US apartment sector powered through last summer’s economic doldrums to record strong absorption gains and higher occupancy rates. So says a 2012 National Apartment Report, which was released by Marcus & Millichap . Tight supply conditions exist, especially in metros with high barriers to entry, says the report.
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Economic optimism returns to Arizona
Arizona consumer confidence index trends. Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services Unemployment is still north of 8 percent and more than half of Arizonans say jobs remain hard to get. But they’re so convinced things are going to be better by this summer that the state’s Consumer Confidence Index shot to its highest level since the middle of 2008. And so upbeat are Arizonans that the index here is ...
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Lake Havasu Todays News Herald
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series examining what happened to the Western Arizona Humane Society in 2011 and where it is going in 2012. Visit www.havasunews.com for both sections.
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Manufacturing a Star of an Upbeat Jobs Report
Last week's surprisingly strong jobs report spotlighted healthy employment gains in manufacturing -- an industry that was expected to be hampered by Europe's economic downturn this year.
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Fawn Sharp challenged for second term as Quinault leader
Elections for the Quinault Indian Nation tribal council will be March 31 and President Fawn Sharp has announced she will run again in the face of some criticism about her growing national and regional affiliations. Sharp so far is facing one declared challenger in Gene James, the tribal operations officer and a tribal councilman.
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Proto Labs IPO nearing the finish line
The Internet-enabled, quick-turn manufacturer of custom parts for prototyping and short production runs is Minnesota’s leading candidate to go public this quarter.
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Misc: Tenth District manufacturing increases, Chicago Fed National Activity Index, State Coincident indexes
Catching up ... The month-over-month composite index was 7 in January, up from revised totals of -2 in December and 4 in November. The composite index is an average of the production, new orders, employment, supplier delivery time, and raw materials inventory indexes. ...
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Colorado State set to offer master’s degree program in statistics
In an effort to stay up on a growing industry, Colorado State University announced Tuesday the creation of a new 11-month master’s degree program in applied statistics. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the employment of statisticians is projected to grow about 13 percent from 2008 to 2018. The bureau says the increase in technological advances and ever-increasing computer speeds ...
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Arizona to Amazon: About That Sales Tax…
Its getting to be tax time again. But filing W2s isnt what the State of Arizona had in mind when they hit Amazon.com with a $53 million bill for uncollected sales taxes, the latest attempt from a state to get revenue from the online retailer.
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Hopes high in W. Valley for 303 work
Interstate 10 interchange key to commercial development along Loop 303, officials say.
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