New scholarship programs announced for Ashford University. “These scholarship programs benefit top tier students who have achieved high levels of academic excellence,” said Jane McAuliffe, president of Ashford University and senior vice president/chief academic officer of Bridgepoint Education. “At Ashford University, we believe that hard working students who have earned good grades throughout their...
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Yesterday I posted a rant on Aww Martha on the Clinton Herald’s lack of decent news coverage of local major businesses. There really is no excuse because setting up Google News alerts is so simple. So, I did just that for some of the local major businesses. I set it for weekly digests. Instant...
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Lyondell Chemical was purchased by Netherlands-based firm Basell (owned by a Russian oligarch) in July 2007. The new firm, LyondellBasel, burdened by the $12.7 billion leveraged buyout, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January of 2009. LyondellBasell said yesterday that one of its European holding companies had also filed for bankruptcy protection and...
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The New York Times is running a multi-part series, called Toxic Waters regarding the increasingly poor quality of drinking water across the US. This, despite the Clean Water Act. One of the key points in the series is that despite many thousands of documented violations of state and federal clean water regulations every year,...
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From the San Diego Union Tribune, the hometown paper Bridgepoint Edcucation (Ticker: BPI), the parent company of Ashford University comes the following story from Saturday, September 5: San Diego-based Bridgepoint Education, the for-profit operator of online college programs and two universities, was among Wall Street’s top losers yesterday after it announced that it might...
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Sometime early Friday afternoon a helpful neighbor slipped the
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I’m not sure what to make of this posting on the Clinton Herald forums that the Forums will be shut down on September 1. Newspaper management’s only public reply has been in the forums and it isn’t exactly clear what will happen next Tuesday. Editor, Charlene Bielema posted this on Monday, the 24th: Yes,...
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There’s a new web site called, Walk Score that gives your neighborhood a “walkability index” based on how many shops, restauants and other amenities are within walking distance. Kind of neat. My neighborhood scores 57 out of 100, Somewhat Walkable. There are some questions regarding the quality of the mapping data they are relying...
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The idea here at re-burbia is to repair the poor use of space by strip-mall and fast-food architecture with infill buildings and repurpose the original building. We were discussing in a meeting last week the fact that Clinton (like many small towns) after encouraging so much non-downtown development along the highway now has much,...
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Just got back from the KROS studios in Clinton where I was talking about what options are available to CIS subscribers and businesses. No announcement yet from CIS. The curious thing, which I mentioned on the radio, is that CIS has significant assets both physical and virtual and could very easily sell the business...
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