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Nov. 30– OLYMPIA– Spokane- area residents joined other demonstrators Tuesday in urging the Legislature to close a projected $1.4 billion budget shortfall with a “balanced approach” that includes tax increases as well as program cuts.

Nov. 29– In a controversial vote that one resident at the meeting called “disgusting” and “nepotism,” the Henderson City Council unanimously appointed Josh M. Reid, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s son, to be the next city attorney. Josh Reid, chosen by a 4-0 vote, will be paid a salary of up to $199,000 a year, not including benefits.

Belkin today announced that it has hired George Platisa as its new chief financial officer. Platisa joins Belkin from Ascent Media Group, a media content management and distribution company, where he was CFO and executive vice president. Belkin today announced that it has hired George Platisa as its new chief financial officer.

Own It Ventures, in collaboration with New Jersey Monthly magazine will honor three women business owners located at the NJIT Enterprise Development Center.

Aon Risk Solutions, a subsidiary of Aon, issued the following news release:. Aon Risk Solutions, the risk management business of Aon Corporation, today announced the appointment of Mark R Parker to the position of Director in Aon’s London Global Broking Center’s International Property and Casualty specialty, led by Luigi Sturani.

The Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation has summarily suspended the licenses of Erickson& Associates, Inc., an Iron Mountain insurance agency, and insurance agent Edward Erickson, for misappropriating policyholder premiums.

The Massachusetts Attorney General issued the following news release:. RBS Financial Products Inc. will pay $52 Million to settle allegations that it financed, purchased, and securitized residential loans that were presumptively unfair under Massachusetts law, Attorney General Martha Coakley announced today.

The Massachusetts Attorney General issued the following news release:. More than $5.6 Million in additional insurance refunds are headed back to Massachusetts motorcycle owners, Attorney General Martha Coakley announced today.

Nov. 30– John Gunderson was sworn in Tuesday as a Modesto city councilman but was still waffling about resigning from the Stanislaus Union School District board.

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ROBERT JENCO, a pharmacist licensed by the State of Connecticut, and MARLBOROUGH PHARMACY, INC. have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the Government and will pay $150,000 to resolve allegations of violations of certain civil provisions of the Controlled Substances Act.

Houston, Texas November 30, 2011. Annuity Think Tank, the #1 site for all things annuity related, announces their blog broke through the 1,000 mark this week. The Annuity Blog began in September 2010 as a marketing message board for financial planners.

Muncie, IN November 30, 2011.

Nov. 30– YAKIMA, Wash.– About 100 people symbolically crowded into local hospital emergency rooms Tuesday, hoping to point out that cuts to community health clinics would unfairly send more Yakima Valley residents to ERs where care is more expensive.

Nov. 30– John S. Barbour learned to sail at age 6 and completed his first Port Huron to Mackinac race at the age of 17. The avid sailor, 64, died Nov. 23 of pancreatic cancer at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Nov. 30– The local trucker who police say was driving the tanker that leaked a 40- mile ribbon of roofing asphalt onto the Pennsylvania Turnpike last week, snarling holiday traffic and damaging hundreds of cars, has been issued two tickets.

London, England November 30, 2011. The success of the London- based implementation provides a consistent, real-time view of relevant data to all global treasury applications and over 30 different[ ERP systems across the entire company.

Federal Housing Finance Agency Acting Director Edward J. DeMarco has announced the appointments of Richard B. Hornsby, as FHFA’s Chief Operating Officer, and Jon Greenlee, as the agency’s Deputy Director of the Division of Enterprise Regulation.

Earlier this month, Tony Dennis the CEO of BioOhio penned a column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer where he expressed his frustrations with President Obama and Senator Sherrod Brown for passing a $2.5 trillion government-run healthcare bill that is partially financed by a 2.3 percent tax increase on medical device companies, because it thwarts innovation and job growth.

School Board President J. Neil Campbell said after the board vote last week that Graystone, which opened in 2002 and has 416 students in grades K-8, “has failed to be a justifiable learning institution.” Graystone board of trustees president Jack Stollsteimer has a different interpretation: The vote was motivated, he said, by “money and power….