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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Best States for Jobs
Anthony Balderrama, CareerBuilder.com writer
Location is everything, according to the real estate adage. Many people learn the wisdom of these words after they move into their first apartment on a tight budget and have a view of a landfill and the smells that come from it.
The same holds true for job hunting. Your chances of finding the right job - or any job, really - depend on where you live. The unemployment rate is the ratio of job seekers to the working population. Therefore, a low percentage means few people are having any difficulty finding work.If you're looking for a job, you want to be in a state that has an unemployment rate lower than the national average, which is 5 percent according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Here are the 15 best states to find work ranked by their unemployment rates.
1. South Dakota
Unemployment rat...
| Posted by Nora Kormylo at 2:04 PM |
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Monday, February 25, 2008
Here's an article from Time Magazine, February 25, 2008 titled "Ignore the Headlines"...
Famed Money Manager is perhaps best known for his timeless wisdom that you can beat the pros by focusing on stocks of companies where you either work or shop or have some other edge. But a more relevant Lynchism today is this gem: Ignore the headlines.
That's no easy thing. How do you tune out all the chatter and ink on recession, housing, subprime woes, the credit crunch, rogue traders, insolvent bond insurers, $100 oil and nukes in Iran? It's enough to make you sit on your thumbs and wait before making any big moves. But what, exactly, are you waiting for?
There has rarely been a moment in history when you couldn't scare yourself into doing nothing. And yet, as Lynch observed nearly 20 years ago, "in spite of all the great and minor calamities that have occurred ... all the thousands of reasons that the world might be coming to an end--owning stocks has continued to be twice as ...
| Posted by Nora Kormylo at 2:05 PM |
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Sunday, February 10, 2008
This photo was taken by on-site agent, Ryan Kerfoot www.johnlscott.com/ryank , on Saturday, February 9th while conducting a site walk. While the Blue Herons were up in their nests, he counted a total of 18 of them. What a beautiful place to live.
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Issues with enough bandwidth are just around the corner, but service providers are getting ahead of the trend.
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Friday, February 01, 2008
As Seen in Meridian in the Middle, 2007 NOV/DEC edition.
To view this article at Meridian in the Middle, please click here.
Story by Linda Funaiole
Gramercy Park Offers Seamless, Themeless Living
70-acre mixed-use complex caters to busy lifestyle needs
Gramercy Park, a 70-acre mixed-use complex under development in central Meridian, has a new breed of home buyers in mind. Today's busy young professionals, singles and retirees who prefer a seamless way of life with smaller homes, nearby shops, professional offices and restaurants, and easy access to major roads and entertainment centers are the focus of this all-in-one "destination community," explains project manager Taylor Merrill. "Traditional home development in this marketplace has tried to satisfy the traditional home buyer, which (sic) would be a married couple with 1.5 kids, when probably that's only a small percentage of the market," he says. "Sixty to 70 percent of the market doesn't have kids, ...
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