Business Grants in the News
22-Mar-2010

How to get small-business grants (Honolulu Advertiser)
The High Technology Development Corp. will hold a series of conferences next week to show small businesses how to compete for more than $2 billion in research and development grants.

BID says Santa Claus is coming to town (The Evening Sun)
NORWICH ? Last year, a part of Norwich?s Christmas tradition was missing when Santa Claus? cottage was not open in East Side Park. But this year, the Norwich Business Improvement District is hoping change that.

Audit: Management of business grants was lax (The Beaver County Times)
HARRISBURG - State officials gave tens of millions of dollars to businesses without adequately checking whether the companies kept their job-creation promises and without recovering the money from failed deals, state Auditor General Jack Wagner said Wednesday.

Greenville City Council District 4: Katherine Wetherington (The Daily Reflector)
Name: Katherine Wetherington

News: Making Plastic Out of Pollution (Scientific American)
Plastics have dramatically changed the way we live, allowing us to fabricate new and innovative tools, containers and even replaceable body parts like hips and knees, while also spawning a host of undesirable by-products, including nonbiodegradable trash and pollution from fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas.

Mass. gov. makes pitch for biotech initiative (The Nashua Telegraph)
BOSTON -- Gov. Deval Patrick testified Tuesday that Massachusetts was on the verge of losing its grip on a key industry if lawmakers fail to act on his 10-year, $1 billion life sciences initiative. ... - By STEVE LeBLANC The Associated Press