Recently added articles from Quad - State Business Journal:
Area Home Prices Continue Their Decline
Jun 01, 2009; ... The National Association of Realtors reported a 15.4% year-over-year drop in existing home prices in April, indicating that 45% of all sales are either foreclosed homes or short sales. "Most of the sales are taking place in lower price ranges and activity is beginning to pick up in the ...
Health-Care Group Manages Diabetes
Jun 01, 2009; ... Tristate Health Partners, a physician-hospital organization in Washington County, is working on a health-care delivery product designed to both cut costs and improve care. "Better care costs less because complications are expensive," says Dr. Robert Cirincione, chief medical officer of ...
Company May Get Lift from New Elevator
Feb 01, 2009; ... "We've had interest from as far away as Argentina," says William Block Sr., owner with his son, William Block Jr. and John Phillips II, of a new Hagerstown company, Vertical Vision LLC. "At the Texas show in September [the National Association of Elevator Contractors convention], some of the ...
Promoting a Sporting Event Can Be Home Run or Strike Out
Feb 01, 2009; ... The weather in central Florida looked bad for Labor Day 2004. Hurricane Bonnie had come through, with Hurricane Charley behind her. Next in line was Hurricane Frances, a Category 4 storm with winds over 115 mph. For two days, the storm stalled off the East Coast, allowing 3 million ...
Sesquicentennial Starts with John Brown
Feb 01, 2009; ... Focusing on John Brown's Raid on the U.S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859, the region's tourism officials are about to grab a twoyear jump-start on the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Civil War. The John Brown 150th Anniversary Quad-State Committee, formed by the Quad ...