Florida
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- Report
Evaluates Florida's economic development programs, TaxAnalysts.com (January 1, 2014)**
A report by the Florida
Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability and the
Office of Economic and Demographic Research evaluates the state's
economic development programs and recommends ways to improve the claims
review process and program monitoring.
- Grassroots
efforts seek to reverse brain damage drain in South Florida, Miami Herald (January 31, 2014)
The Miami area tries to
emerge as a technology hub. More companies are starting up or growing
their presence in South Florida -- Facebook for instance has been
growing its Latin American and U.S. Hispanic offices here -- and that
means a greater need for talent.
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Georgia
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Maryland
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National
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- ISS Quickscore
2.0 -- Review validation data before February 7th, wcsr.com (January 2014)
Proxy advisory firm
Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. will roll out a new updated and
enhanced version of its governance rating system, known as QuickScore
2.0, beginning in February 2014. QuickScore 2.0 will include new
governance factors, updated weightings and event-driven data updates. In
connection with QuickScore 2.0’s roll out, ISS has opened a free data
verification site to all covered corporate issuers to correct factual
errors in company data used in ISS’ ratings. In order to update data
prior to QuickScore 2.0’s launch, companies must provide feedback
through the verification portal by 8:00 pm EST on February 7th. Once
updated, the new ratings will be available on Yahoo! Finance and
Bloomberg beginning in early March 2014. In addition, ISS and fellow
proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis have also recently updated their corporate
governance policies for the 2014 proxy season.
- Good
jobs first ranks states' disclosure of economic development subsidy awards,
TaxAnalysts.com (January 29, 2014)**
Good Jobs First has released
a report evaluating and ranking state governments based on their online
disclosure of economic development subsidy awards and outcomes, finding
that while transparency is steadily increasing, the quality of
disclosures is very inconsistent and key performance measures, such as
jobs and wages created, are often missing. According to the report,
Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Vermont, Maryland, and
Texas were the best at disclosing information about their major subsidy
programs.
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North
Carolina
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South Carolina
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- Take
S.C.'s only road to prosperity, The Post and Courier (February 2, 2014)
Modernizing and expanding
highway capacities is a never-ending public policy mandate for any
progressive state.
- South
Carolina DOR reissues guidance on local sales and use taxes, TanAnalysts.com (January 31, 2014)**
The South Carolina Department
of Revenue has reissued an information letter containing guidance for
various types of local sales and use taxes collected by the department
and applicable tax exemptions by county; the letter reflects local taxes
in effect May 1.
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Texas
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Virginia
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- Progress
hangs in balance, godanriver.com (February 2, 2014)
A “Catch-22” situation has
developed with economic development departments learning that the Army
Corps of Engineers would no longer issue permits to develop industrial
parks unless an “end-user” had already committed to the project.
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