The Eagle Local News (Free subscription) | yesterday
The mayors from Bryan and College Station will attempt to out-raise each other in a charity drive by ringing a bell for the Salvation Army on Saturday.Bryan Mayor Mark Conlee will ring the bell at the Wal-Mart SuperCenter on Briarcrest Drive from noon to 1 p.m. College Station Mayor Ben White will be ringing the bell at the Wal-Mart on Brothers Boulevard during the same time.Conlee raised $3,000...
The Eagle Local News (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... for dramatically increasing the Arts Council's budget and improving arts in the community.Mayor Ben White said Tuesday afternoon that the Arts Council executive committee requested that the city name the building after Romei and that the council agreed.Romei declined to comment Tuesday, but he repeatedly stressed during his trial that he did not seek to have the building named after him....
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
For some, reviving the Palestinian economiy is the route to peace. For others, it's the route to fragmentation A Good Comment By Ben White guardian.co.uk , Thursday November 20 2008 "....Netanyahu seems to be treading a fine line between staking out a position sufficiently different from Kadima so as to attract dissatisfied voters, and completely writing off any chances for progress with the...
The Eagle Local News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
College Station Mayor Ben White said Monday that he expects an ordinance to ban smoking in bars and restaurants to be approved by council members by Jan 1. Whit ...
Rocky Mount Telegram - Business (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
Less than two months ago, Citigroup emerged from the wreckage of the financial crisis as one of the ...
The Eagle Local News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
... and local government leaders, he saidHe met with Ron Silvia, who was mayor at the time, and Ben White, the current mayor who was mayor pro-tem at the time, at the end of October, he said, but did not explain in court what happened.Becky Russell, immediate past president of the Arts Council and current board member, testified Monday morning that she met with Silvia and White after...
icWales (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
... Jamie Jones in a back line that shows two changes from the team that lost to Cardiff.In the pack, Ben Rose comes in for Ben White on the openside and the Wanderers welcome Josh Navidi into the squad from the Blues academy for the first time, while former Penarth and Cardiff speedster Nick Gill is on the bench.Ebbw Vale have been naming sides that change drastically by kick-off time and opposing...
Risk Moment RES (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Wall Street’s Pay Is Expected to Plummet By BEN WHITE Published: November 5, 2008 The first clues are emerging that Wall Street pay will plummet this year — but perhaps not enough to satisfy the financial industry’s critics. Eight Weeks of Financial Turmoil Today’s Business: Ben White on Wall Street’s pay cut. Bonuses, which soared to record heights in recent [...]
The Eagle Local News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
College Station Mayor Ben White said Thursday that he was open to a local group's request to ban smoking in the city's bars and restaurants and that he thought ...
DealBook (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
The first clues are emerging that Wall Street pay will plummet this year — but perhaps not enough to satisfy the financial industry’s critics, The New York Times’s Ben White writes. Bonuses, which soared to record heights in recent years, could drop by 20 to 35 percent across the industry, according to a private study to [...]
The Eagle Local News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
College Station residents soundly rejected a proposed $26.3 million City Hall in Tuesday's election but supported four other propositions, along with an amendment to the charter.A suggested $7.1 million community center fell short of passing by 405 votes, receiving 49 percent. The building would have replaced the conference center on George Bush Drive. College Station Mayor Ben White said he...
The Eagle Local News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
... lots. The council eventually opted for a one-acre minimum lot size and approved a motion for Mayor Ben White to urge county officials to consider a 1.5-acre minimum.Council members expressed concern about the health of residents using septic systems in high-density subdivisions and requested that the Brazos County Health Department be involved in the discussion about septic systems.Only...
icWales (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... at the Arms Park.At that stage they led 13-11, but moments later were reduced to 13 men as first Ben White and then Steve Cullen were binned for technical fouls.Coach Richard Hodges, who couldn’t hide his frustration, said, “This is a tough place to come and compete at the best of times, but when we can’t keep 15 men on the pitch for the full 80 minutes, we are giving ourselves an impossible...
Risk Moment RES (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/business/30pay.html'ref=business October 30, 2008 Cuomo Asks For Pay Data From Banks By BEN WHITE and JONATHAN D. GLATER Wall Street is coming under mounting political pressure to cut bonuses for top executives, traders and bankers in what was already expected to be a down year for pay. Under pressure from members of Congress to curtail compensation, banks now...
The Next Web (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
Founders of the recently sold MessageLabs, purchased by Symantec, are to set up a UK focused venture capital fund. Brothers Ben and Jos White, as well as other former MessageLabs executives, will place approximately £20 million into the Fund to be called Notion Capital. Ben White has been quoted as saying: “In the UK there’re lots of good [...]
