Homebuilder confidence rises
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- Homebuilder confidence rises
- Franklin examining home business bylaw
- US Stocks Rally Continues As Financials Consumer Cos Pace Gains
- Conn. union says nursing home strike is off
- Pa. starts rebate program for home solar systems
Homebuilder confidence rises
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Franklin examining home business bylaw
Milford Daily News
Catering businesses run from the family kitchen for instance is a no-no in the town of Franklin as health officials worry about sanitation issues says Town Administrator Jeffery D. Nutting but they still exist here. The Planning Department is proposing an amended bylaw to better define home businesses and what is allowed in a "home occupation" business and a "home professional office" in order to both make it easier to run a home-based business and to address concerns from neighbors and the health agent said Town Planner Beth Dahlstrom and Conservation Agent Nick Alfieri. The town’s existing bylaw does not sufficiently cover home businesses said Town Attorney Mark Cerel. The new bylaw which has been presented to Town Council but is still undergoing modifications at the Planning Department is not intended to restrict home businesses but to "open the doors" for residents to do business at home said Alfieri. The bylaw defines three types of home-based businesses: home instruction home occupation and home professional office and provides parameters for what is permitted in each. For instance a home professional office is defined as a home-based business that employs a full-time resident of a single- or two-family house as an employee in a profession such as medicine dentistry engineering law or accounting.
US Stocks Rally Continues As Financials Consumer Cos Pace Gains
Wall Street Journal
stocks rose Monday as home-improvement retailer Lowe’s raised earnings outlook stirred hopes of a housing-sector rebound. Also helping stocks was the eye-catching 17% jump for India’s stock market that could help halt the surge of risk aversion that has hampered world markets since September. Recently the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 196 points or 2. The blue-chip measure was helped by financial stocks including a 10% surge in Bank of America shares to $11.
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Conn. union says nursing home strike is off
Forbes
“We believe that this morning’s discussions can help move us away from conflict toward resolution. We urge all parties to give this process more time to produce acceptable agreements” the two lawmakers wrote. The union had notified nursing home owners that more than 800 nurses aides and other staff would walk off the job for three days this month. It sent strike notices to homes in Hartford Winsted Ansonia Colchester Windsor Meriden and Glastonbury. Workers are at odds with management over wages and proposed benefit concessions. “We considered their request and decided to honor it” Carmen Boudier the union’s president said in a statement. District 1199 sent letters overnight to Genesis Elder Care and Spectrum Healthcare owners of the facilities informing them that all union employees will report to work as scheduled on Wednesday.
Pa. starts rebate program for home solar systems
Philadelphia Inquirer
place_ad_here(”half”); Posted on Tue May. 19 2009 Pa. starts rebate program for home solar systems The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA – Home or small-business owners who go solar can get more than a third of their money back under a new Pennsylvania rebate program. Ed Rendell says he expects the $100 million approved for the Sunshine rebate program to be claimed fairly quickly. Rendell held a news conference on the program Monday at a Philadelphia home. It provides rebates up to 35 percent for installing solar energy systems.
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