June 27– In 2000, I was editor of The Oklahoman’s Community section and I had a column that I frequently used to share some tidbits of community news. On one of my adventures for a column, I ended up at a farm where blackberries were grown. She died in April 2014 and I am reminded once again how much I really miss her.
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–PEMCO Insurance has done it again. The Northwest’s largest local insurer has received the highest ranking for customer satisfaction from J.D. Power for the second consecutive year. The Seattle- based mutual insurer, which serves Northwest residents exclusively, is recognized for ranking the highest in customer satisfaction among auto insurers in the…
North Riverside– a community of about 6,500 in the Chicago area– is the latest to put forward the proposal. For its part, North Riverside owes about $1.8 million to its police and fire pensions. In two communities that have full-time fire departments, Jacksonville and Beardstown mayors both say that they have not considered this idea, and without the dire…
HARRISBURG, Pa., June 27, 2014/ PRNewswire-USNewswire/– Governor Tom Corbett and Attorney General Kathleen Kane announced today that Highmark and UPMC have reached a comprehensive transition agreement that covers how and where patients can receive health care after the contract between the two organizations expires in 2015.. The plan is a result of ongoing…
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Ahmad Akram, lead dentist at the New Braunfels office, received his Doctor of Dental Medicine degree at Boston University in 2010. Dr. The New Braunfels practice, located in Comal and Guadalupe Counties, is one out of 15 Aspen Dental-branded locations in Texas, a state where 112 out of 254 counties have dental health professional shortage areas as designated by…
June 27– Farmers Insurance made a move Thursday to show that its the top dog in the Budd Grebb Memorial Summer Basketball League. Monessen’s Lavelle Rush scored a game-high 21 points, including three 3- pointers, to lead Farmers to its second consecutive win, 78-43 over Campy’s Pizza. Noah Brown and Ringgold’s Luke Beveridge each scored 14 points with Cameron…
EDITORIAL POLICY: Chapter News must be received by the 20th of the month two months prior to publication date. Nelson Caraballo Jr., USAR CoL Lipsey, who is president of Lipsey Cyber Consulting LLC, retired as vice commander, 24th Air Force, in June 2013 after 28 years of service. David Blanton, chief technology officer for the Air Education and Training Command’s…
June 27– Madison Township officials are exploring ways to sustain five township parks amid decreasing general fund revenue and unexpected costs from its failing five-year operating agreement at Bill Stanton Community Park. Stanton Park, a former Catholic Diocese camp the township purchased using federal highway dollars in 1998, sits at the center of the…
Nason Medical Center includes five Lowcountry locations. While urgent care providers charge a fraction of the price for treatment compared with hospitals, some doctors and health care administrators believe that for-profit facilities, like Nason Medical Center and Medcare Urgent Care, notoriously overbill for unnecessary services to improve their…
A pre-storm calm hung over Gillett Pond as Robert Low pointed out winter wrens and spotted sandpipers from the stern of his canoe. The mile-long pond spans two towns- Richmond and Huntington- and has provided residents a reservoir of memories, from otter spottings to ice-skating parties. Despite the protests of Gillett Pond- goers, the Girl Scouts of the Green and…
Recognizing that information has value is the stuff Nobel Prizes are made of. In fact, in 2001, George Akerlof, Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz earned the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work in the area of “information asymmetry,” which is the study of decisions in transactions where one party has more or better information than the other.
Credit Professionals Possess the Skills to Mitigate Risk. One of the worst nightmares for any company is the shutdown or bankruptcy of a major supplier. Inability to obtain raw materials or parts may bring the purchaser to a halt and prevent it from getting its own product out the door.
Every industry needs new blood over time to come in and learn, as well as bring in new ideas, so that business can move forward with strength in perpetuity. Credit is certainly not exempt. Companies may go back to viewing our function as more of an administrative role, “said Dawn Dickert, CCE, credit manager with Lhoist North America, Inc.” In addition, not having credit…
A payment trend affecting credit across all industries is customers disregarding vendor-set trade terms and unilaterally extending these terms to better fit their working capita] and cash flow needs, a trend known as the terms pushback strategy (TPS). According to Sageworks’ 2013 Private Company Report, private US companies reported a 7.4- day increase in…
Account managers may consider receiving payments from a customer as an unequivocal victory, but they might want to take a closer look at who is actually making the payment before celebrating too much. A careful analysis may avoid being drawn in to what is a growing trend in large Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases: fraudulent transfer claims related to centralized…
Coming in second, however, is Latin America, and it’s in this region that lawmakers and regulators on both sides of a US-Latin American transaction have worked for years to tear down barriers to make sales less of a hassle and to reduce administrative overhead. Poza observed that many US exporters decrease their potential for success in the region by…
A trade creditor dealing with a financially distressed customer may seek a security interest in its customers property to increase the likelihood of payment of the creditors claim. The recent holding of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in 1st Source Bank vs. Wilson Bank& Trust, et al, is a reminder of the unintended and harsh consequences…
In the July/ August 2013 issue of Business Credit, I informed readers that the future is already here, it just needs to be created by 3 D printing. In that article, I began the discussion of what 3 D printing is and the effect it will have on our lives. However, 3 D printers based on fused deposition modeling technology are available now from about $500-2,500, and internet…
