VALIC to shift Houston jobs to Amarillo
bizjournals (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
The Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co. plans to lay off 121 employees from its Houston office beginning in January, according to the Texas Workforce Commission.
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Houston attorney seeks end to Cathedral's 'Beacon' program
The Lead (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
A local lawyer has challenged a homeless advocacy program near his office that he says has created a downtown neighborhood nuisance. But the dean of Christ Church Cathedral says the work will go forward.
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VIP Search Group LLC opens Fort Worth office
The Dallas Business Journal (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
VIP Search Group LLC, an executive search firm for financial services professionals, has opened an office in Fort Worth.
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Turner Construction to build Houston church
The Houston Business Journal (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The Houston office of Turner Construction Co. has been awarded a contract by the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston to build the Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in northwest Houston.
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MapleWorks opens Houston office
bizjournals (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Canadian software developer MapleWorks Technology Inc. has opened an office in Houston.
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MapleWorks opens Houston office
The Houston Business Journal (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Canadian software developer MapleWorks Technology Inc. has opened an office in Houston.
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CCA versus David Dow
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... to show cause for the untimely filed documents in Ex Parte Simpson. Dow and Black work in the Houston office of TDS, a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve the representation of death-row inmates. As noted in the CCA’s order, Sharon Keller, the court’s presiding judge, did not participate in Simpson and is not participating in the court’s show cause hearing for Dow and Black....
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Gazprom Comes to the U.S.
IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... to spruce up its image with a $250,000-a-month contract with Ketchum, a skilled PR agency with offices in London and Washington.But this isn't the news. Instead, it is an ingenious Gazprom strategy of parlaying its market power in Europe -- the company supplies 25% of Europe's natural gas -- into a beachhead in the hyper-competitive U.S. Gazprom's goal: to supply 10% of the U.S. market...
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At the CCA
StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... to show cause for the untimely filed documents in Ex Parte Simpson. Dow and Black work in the Houston office of TDS, a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve the representation of death-row inmates. As noted in the CCA’s order, Sharon Keller, the court’s presiding judge, did not participate in Simpson and is not participating in the court’s show cause hearing for Dow and Black....
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AET takes IMOS6
Maritime News (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Veson Nautical has installed the Integrated Maritime Operations System (IMOS6) in AET’s three commercial offices - London, Houston, and Singapore. IMOS6 is now handling all chartering, operations, and accounting activities for the company’s fleet of VLCC, Aframax and product tankers, effectively becoming the maritime component of AET’s enterprise resource planning...
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Missing Out On The Glamour Of Los Angeles
The ClownVision Chronicles (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Several years ago, back when I worked for the former full-time employer, I was on the yearly Houston office pilgrimage to New York to pay homage to the big boys signing our checks. And we were staying at the huge Hilton on Sixth Avenue not far from Broadway.At the same time we were there, there was some kind of international young modeling competition thing going on involving kids from...
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Experts Discuss Legalization To Reduce Crime
Think Outside the Cage (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... for a discussion of legalization and other ideas at the Baker Institute at Rice University in Houston Thursday.Houston, TX - infoZine - The question before the panel was whether legalization of cannabis, commonly known as marijuana, would help reduce the power of the violent Mexican crime cartels. But the discussion also included the idea of legalizing other narcotics or changing...
- Experts Discuss Legalization of Some Drugs to Reduce Crime - Global Security
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Experts Discuss Legalization of Some Drugs to Reduce Crime
Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Experts Discuss Legalization of Some Drugs to Reduce CrimeGreg Flakus | Houston 20 November 2009Drug smuggling gangs in Mexico have turned some parts of that country into a war zone. At the same time, arrests for drug offenses in the United States have soared, contributing to a jail population that is the highest in the industrialized world. Experts on the narcotics issue came together for a...
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Imperial Capital: Imperial Capital Announces Acquisition of Petrobridge Investment Management LLC; Opening of Houston, Texas, Office
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
LOS ANGELES, CA (MARKET WIRE) Imperial Capital, LLC, a full-service investment banking firm, is pleased to announce it has acquired Petrobridge Investment Management LLC, an advisory firm specializing in the traditional Energy sector. In conjunction with the acquisition, Imperial Capital has acquired an office location in Houston, Texas.
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Gazprom Comes to the U.S.
The Oil and The Glory (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... a look at the details in a story I wrote for this week's BusinessWeek . Last month, the company's Houston office opened with the main aim of marketing liquid natural gas from Sakhalin II (recall that Gazprom strong-armed its way into a controlling share of the project in 2007), on Russia's East Coast, in California. This goal hasn't gone off so well as yet, and probably won't soon...