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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

11/04/08 The Raw Greenwich Business News Feed


More than just a hobby
Seacoast Online
... dolls and antique collectors items with price tags of up to $1,000. Diane Drake, owner of Diane's Doll Shoppe in Greenwich, Conn., said her highest priced dolls sell for around $2,500 and many antique doll collectors will pay more than $10,000 for a ...


Weaver Leather sells majority interest to private firm
The-Daily-Record.com
Weaver Leather has sold a majority interest to Capital Partners, a small Greenwich, Conn., private equity firm, to "ensure the long-term stability of the company," officials said in a release.


High-end U.S. markets show cracks in the foundation
The Real Deal
... $360,000, and in Beverly Hills, the median home price has plunged to $930,000 from $1.8 million the year before. Greenwich, Conn., with its manicured green lawns and pristine beaches, may have seemed immune to the real estate slump, but median ...


Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation's (MMRF) Annual Gala Raises More ...
Earth Times
NORWALK, Conn. - The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation raised over $1.5 million at its 12th annual "Friends for Life" Fall Gala held on November 1, 2008 in Greenwich, Conn.


Boeing jet production will be slow to restart
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
... in 2009, which had been the plan. In a report Monday, Peter Arment of American Technology Research, based in Greenwich, Conn., said the strike and other factors probably have delayed first flight to at least February or March, with deliveries ...


Genesee & Wyoming Q3 results top projections
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen
... er, coal, coke and ores, metals, farm and food products, minerals and stone, and petroleum products. Shares of the Greenwich, Connecticut-based company closed at $33.35 Friday on the New York Stock Exchange.


Rivals snatch AIG staff as uncertainty lingers
Business Insurance
... teams of AIG executives have moved to other insurers. For example, W.R. Berkley Corp. has picked up two teams. The Greenwich, Conn.-based insurer created a worldwide property unit for energy risks and named former AIG executive Frank Costa as its ...


Emerging markets face financing crunch
Globeinvestor.com
... the face of a continued refinancing freeze," Alan Ruskin, chief international strategist at RBS Global Banking in Greenwich, Connecticut, wrote clients. "Nowhere is this more acute than the foreign currency financing in the emerging world, where ...


Sunday, December 30, 2007

12/30/07 - If your family has a little extra money at the end of this year, then please consider those less fortunate than you.


Norwalk Advocate

The Advocate and Greenwich Time Giving Fund provides assistance to needy families in lower Fairfield County.

12/30/07 - A rich state - Connecticut is beset by persistent problems with people who can't find a home, can't keep a home or are in danger of .......

CT-04: (D) Jim Himes, (R) John McKinney, Greenwich Time, and Honesty

by goldrick

Greenwich Time/Stamford Advocate's editorial last week, "Lawmaker right to target homelessness", praises Republican state senator John McKinney for setting "his sights on effectively ending homelessness in Connecticut." ...

... Great. The problem is that the paper’s paean to Republican McKinney completely fails to make any mention of Democratic congressional candidate Jim Himes, a Greenwich resident running against Republican chickenhawk Chris Shays, who has spent the past four years of his life working full-time to solve precisely the housing problems that the newspaper says need to be addressed.

Himes is national vice president of Enterprise Foundation and director of its Northeast operations. Enterprise is a leading non-profit organization whose purpose is to fight the problems of a lack of affordable housing throughout the United States. Himes left a lucrative career as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs to tackle the housing crisis in this region....


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