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State Focus – Kansas: The Sunflower State Is Blooming and Booming

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In order to support the continued expansion of the renewable energy industry, Kansas has a goal of generating 15 percent of the state’s electricity from renewable sources by 2016, and the state’s utilities are on track to meet this target. THE KANSAS CITY ANIMAL HEALTH CORRIDOR KEEPS EXPANDING. at 12,800 feet.

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Tom Lyerla, the standard bearer

The Korte Company

His next position came from the Nestlé Company location in Granite City, where he did warehouse work and tested tea quality in the lab. So he marched down to the carpenters’ union hall and applied as an apprentice, ready to learn a trade and return to his construction roots. None of it held Tom’s interest. I built the very first one.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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CAPCO financing, an alternative to conventional bank financing, can accommodate a slightly higher risk profile and provide a more flexible structure for growing businesses. Many small businesses that are not able to receive traditional bank financing can get support through CEF. CALIFORNIA – updated for 2014.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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CAPCO financing, an alternative to conventional bank financing, can accommodate a slightly higher risk profile and provide a more flexible structure for growing businesses. The COMMERCIAL FISHING AND AGRICULTURE BANK provides loans to fishing, tourism, natural resources and agriculture-based projects.

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Crystal Ball 2013

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Supreme Court strikes down Voting Rights Act, rules union members get 3/5ths vote. Department of Energy awards $20-million grant to former bank president who says he has a way to turn sub-prime mortgage promo letters into biofuels. Treasury, demanding it stop using his likeness on pennies. – U.S. – U.S. . – U.S.

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Crystal Ball 2013

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Supreme Court strikes down Voting Rights Act, rules union members get 3/5ths vote. Department of Energy awards $20-million grant to former bank president who says he has a way to turn sub-prime mortgage promo letters into biofuels. Treasury, demands it stop using his likeness on pennies. – U.S. – U.S. . – U.S.