LaunchPad - November 16, 2009
WOR 710HD- Joan and Liz Hamburg talk to young entrepreneur from the Met Center for Entrepreeurship who has created a line of sodas being sold in stores as part of a school project.
LaunchPad - November 09, 2009
WOR 710HD- Joan and Liz Hamburg famed chef and restaurateur David Bouley talks about what it takes to break into the restaurant business during Launch Pad.
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NEW YORK -- Signs of a subdued economic recovery have sent investors out of stocks and in search of safer assets like the dollar. Energy and material stocks have logged the biggest losses Thursday as a jump in the dollar sent commodity prices tumbling. An analyst's downgrade of the chip industry has pulled technology shares sharply lower. Stocks are lower for a second day. The Dow Jones industrial average is down 93 at 10,333 after sliding 170. The S&P 500...
ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York's unemployment rate inched to 9 percent in October from 8.9 in September. State labor department officials say that's the highest level since April 1983. The latest figures released Thursday showed a loss of 15,300 non-farm jobs in October. The rate in New York City remained steady at 10.3 percent. Outside New York City, the lowest unemployment rate - 5.7 percent - was in Tompkins County. The highest rate was in Steuben County...
The number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment insurance was unchanged last week, remaining above the level that would indicate the economy is adding jobs.Still, new claims - which are considered a gauge of the pace of layoffs and an indication of companies' willingness to hire new workers - are down about 22 percent from this spring.The Labor Department said Thursday that first-time claims for jobless benefits were a seasonally adjusted 505,000, the same as the...
In a previous blog, “A Runners Wife” I spoke about my husband training for the NYC marathon. All I have to say is that the months of training all came together of an amazing race. Race day is a grueling day for runners, and the family. But a miracle happened...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the senate judiciary committee and basically shrugged when asked if any other enemy combatant captured overseas had ever been brought to civilian criminal court to face justice. Talk about an incompetent boob, not to mention a disgrace.
Here is a list of wines all from Spain, and menus from restaurants in Brooklyn where a crew of us did a food / wine crawl through Carrol Gardens and Williamsburg recently
