| ABC to replace cancer cluster broadcast studio
NEW Brisbane premises have been secured for the ABC to establish broadcast operations following the closure last year of its facilities at Toowong amid concerns over a cancer cluster among staff at the site. The Toowong studios were closed after a panel of experts commissioned by the ABC found that women working there had a six times higher risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer than women in the general community. Since then, another journalist, Angela Eckersley, has been diagnosed with breast cancer and is under treatment and recovering, bringing to 15 the number of staff stricken by cancer since 1994. Years of action by the journalists' union pressured ABC management into closing the Toowong riverside premises because exhaustive tests could not pinpoint the reason for so many female staff developing cancer.
State grants charter to Greensboro business bank
Greensboro is a step closer to getting its first business-only bank. The North Carolina Banking Commission has granted a charter to Premier Commercial Bank, a startup lender for small and medium-sized businesses. The bank said it expects to open in early 2008. Premier was founded by Frank Gavigan, a longtime Triad banker who was most recently senior credit officer at 1st State Bank in Burlington. It's joining a space that's become increasingly crowded in North Carolina since Raleigh's Paragon Commercial Bank became the state's first business-only bank in 1999. The Triad has yet to get in on the action, however, with most of the startups planting their headquarters in Charlotte or the Triangle. So far, Premier has raised more than $11 million in its initial stock offering, which began Aug.
Businesses may qualify for loans due to drought
U.S. Sens. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., and Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., Wednesday announced that the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Economic Injury Disaster Loan program has made available federal disaster loans for farm-related and nonfarm-related small businesses and small agricultural cooperatives in Georgia that have suffered financial losses as a result of the drought. Businesses may qualify for loans due to drought Staff Reports WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., and Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., Wednesday announced that the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Economic Injury Disaster Loan program has made available federal disaster loans for farm-related and nonfarm-related small businesses and small agricultural cooperatives in Georgia that have suffered financial losses as a result of the drought.
Philanthropist Booth dies at 92; Alpine socialite supported Pascack Valley Hospital
Lillian Booth was as comfortable signing million-dollar checks to hospitals as she was dancing the rumba in Manhattan ballrooms. The New York socialite, who spent a lifetime spreading her wealth among charities in New Jersey and beyond, died at 92 on Thursday morning in her Alpine home. .
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