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BUSINESS REPORT: New California Incentives Offer Credits For Job Creation

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Long Beach Community College. The San Diego Enterprise Zone, which ended Dec. The San Diego Enterprise Zone, which ended Dec. Jerry Brown wanted to end the roughly 25-year-old Enterprise Zone program because he said it wasn’t creating jobs as intended. Long Beach City College received two grants totaling $4.5

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Location Focus: Washington – Scenic Vistas And Soaring Industry Side By Side

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The industrial park is zoned for heavy industry. The Port of Everett is an economic development enterprise carrying out the public’s trust to manage and develop resources, transportation facilities and supporting infrastructure to enable community opportunity. Some of its features include: Five minutes to I-5.

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Rising Export Volumes Spur Inland Port Development Across the U.S.

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producers and suppliers is to have an effective supply chain infrastructure in place to manage the growth in export volume, both in the near future and for the long run,” said Rohan àBeckett, Vice President, PAGI. which will become the first inland port to serve the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

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LOCATION FOCUS: California Dreamin’ – A Rebound Fueled By New Energy

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The federal Bureau of Land Management, which has subsurface mineral rights for much of the Monterey shale field, in December sold about 15 leases for thousands of acres of potential shale development in California. Power outages can be avoided, and customers will be empowered to see and manage their energy use in near-real time.

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FEATURE STORY: Logistics Clusters Are Jobs Magnets

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He is an expert in systems optimization, risk analysis and supply chain management. The first is in the classic supply chain management activities: blue-collar jobs, like running warehouses and driving trucks. The Corridor offers export assistance and Foreign Trade Zones. The current challenge for U.S. Farther north, in St.

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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

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Slow economic growth has kept the percentage low, but the supply chain sector has made great strides in productivity, asset utilization and inventory management in the past three years.” Wilson predicts that these supply chain management improvements will continue even as higher volumes return to the market place. Spending in the U.S.

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Home Stretch

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” Project managers and Canal Authority execs are giving firm assurances that the ribbon will be cut before the end of May. But the daunting engineering challenge of building a third set of new locks—and a toxic combination of legal and labor issues—rendered that deadline unrealistic almost from the get-go. for the first time.

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