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The joy of cookies

Published: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The cookie itself resembles a thin biscotti, though perhaps with more almonds. The story of how it came to be made spans a century, beginning in what was then called Palestine, weaving a musical route through Europe -- with a stop in England for love -- and then winding up in Maumee after a long interlude with the Toledo Symphony. At the beginning of the more»

Chrysler Group, LLC and related news updates

Published: Friday, February 3, 2012
Bonuses ahead at Chrysler, Toledo Blade, 02/03/2012 Future looks bright for Toledo's auto industry, WNWO, 01/26/2012 Chrysler plans new 200, Dodge Avenger, Jeep Compass, USA Today, 01/23/2012 Prospects grow for ex-Jeep site, Toledo Blade, 11/18/2011 Port Authority awards two more contracts for cleanup of former Jeep factory site, Toledo Blade, more»

Ohio tops nation in rate of wind-energy growth

Published: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
WASHINGTON -- With a 900 percent increase, Ohio was the state with the fastest rate of wind-energy growth in 2011, according to rankings by the American Wind Energy Association. A total of 101.5 megawatts was installed in 2011, up from almost nothing the year before. Although Ohio had the highest growth rate, it was not among the top 10 states. Texas and more»

Ohio leaders reach agreement to privatize profits from liquor sales

Published: Monday, January 23, 2012
COLUMBUS - Ohio's new private economic development corporation will pay a lump sum of $1.4 billion plus a potential share of future profits to lease the state's wholesale liquor sales monopoly for the next 25 years. As a result, most of the future profits from the sale of liquor in the state, expected to be in the neighborhood of $100 million a year, will more»

Huntington Center ranks #8 in sales, attendance

Published: Thursday, January 19, 2012
Toledo's downtown arena continues to score high relative to other arenas across the world in terms of attendance and ticket sales. The concert industry magazine Venues Today ranked the Huntington Center as eighth in the world in the 5,001-10,000 seat category, with $7,370,365 in ticket sales and 147,942 in attendance. The 2011 year-end report numbers are more»

Factory output soared in December as companies demanded more machines and materials

Published: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
WASHINGTON - U.S. factory output surged in December by the most in year. Stronger demand for business equipment, vehicles and energy offered the most visible evidence that manufacturing has roared back from the depths of the recession. The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that manufacturing increased 0.9 percent in December, the biggest gain since December more»

It's a Man vs. Machine Recovery

Published: Thursday, January 5, 2012
The U.S. produces almost one-quarter more goods and services today than it did in 1999, while using almost precisely the same number of workers. It's as if $2.5 trillion worth of stuff-the equivalent of the entire U.S. economy circa 1958-materialized out of thin air. Although businesses haven't added many people, they've certainly bulked up on machines. more»

Region shows strong growth in factory jobs

Published: Thursday, December 15, 2011
Manufacturing jobs are returning to metro Toledo at a rate higher than in many other metropolitan areas, and area workers are again earning more, although unemployment remains higher than the national average. The good news-bad news picture comes from two reports released Wednesday, one from the Brookings Institution and one from the federal government's more»