New-home sales surged in April by the biggest amount in 14 years.
But the median price of a new home dropped by the largest amount on record.
Does that mean -- as analysts have theorized -- that desperate builders dropped their prices to sell more homes?
Johnson Controls -- the company that bought York International back in '05 -- has joined the Clinton Climate Initiative to reduce greenhouse gases.
Read about it here.
Analysts at KeyBanc Capital Markets Friday upgraded Johnson Controls (NYSE ticker: JCI) from "buy" to "aggressive buy."
The Milwaukee-based company is the same one that bought York International back in December 2005.
Read the AP story.
Keep up to date on progress of Harley-Davidson's $75 million museum being built near the company's Milwaukee headquarters.
Check out pictures here.
Did you get another call from your spouse who said he or she has to work overtime and can't make it home for dinner?
Do you have a nagging feeling that maybe he or she isn't being truthful?
Helen O'Planick, owner of Heljan Associates in East Manchester Township, offered her expertise in a recent article that ran in The (Trenton) Times about how people can catch their cheating spouses by checking their tax returns.
Apparently many of you have been the victim of a salesperson's perceptions.
Miss the column? Read it here
Dentsply's stock keeps rising.
The York-based company is one of the world’s largest designers, developers, manufacturers and marketers of equipment, supplies and other related products for the dental industry. That includes artificial teeth.
Read the AP story.
As a reporter, part of my job is to speak with people I've never met about topics that may impact them. What makes a story great, instead of just good, are the voices from people who live in the community and not just the experts who follow the issues.
Last week, I reported a story that required me to venture out into the local area to collect comments from people -- real people and not experts -- I had never met before. For the most part, residents are willing to speak on a whole range of imporant topics. But not everyone is so accommodating.
One woman who spotted me walking towards her raised her hand about chest level, a signal for me to stop in my tracks. I did. She informed me that she knew where I was from and had no interest in speaking to me. I told her thank you and moved on. I'm not saying she was rude, she simply wasn't interested in speaking to me. Still, I wish she would have at least taken the time to hear what I had to say before passing judgment. Who knows? Maybe the story I was working on would have pertained to her. I'll never know and neither will she.
Next time, try to give a person a chance to ask a question before closing the door.
