June 2013 Subscribe toPacific Maritime Magazine PRINT EDITION June 2013 Issue M-580: California’s Marine Highway By Mark Edward Nero For the better part of the past decade, California’s major seaports have sought ways to deal with the ever-growing problem of highway traffic congestion and the resulting increase in air pollution […]
Continue ReadingGrowth on Track Despite Mixed Data · The May retail sales report came in better than expected, with sales rising 0.6 percent. Core retail sales were somewhat softer at 0.3 percent, which followed a downwardly revised figure for April, and indicate a more modest pace of consumer spending in the second quarter. · Small […]
Continue ReadingACWA’s eNews is a weekly roundup of California water news and events. AB 145 Advances in Senate A Senate committee approved an ACWA-opposed bill June 12 that would transfer responsibility for the state’s drinking water program from the Department of the Public Health to the State Water Resources Control Board. AB 145 (Perea) […]
Continue ReadingJune 2013 Subscribe toPacific Maritime Magazine PRINT EDITION June 2013 Issue Workforce Development By Chris Philips In the 1967 movie The Graduate, a young Dustin Hoffman is told by one of the characters that plastics are the industry of the future. Today’s graduates, faced with the prospect of competing for […]
Continue ReadingThe June 7 issue of ACWA News is now available online. This issue includes more coverage of the 2013 ACWA Spring Conference & Exhibition and the noteworthy programs, panels and meetings from the week in Sacramento. Highlights this issue include: • ACWA Board Discusses Water Bond and Need for Statewide Water Action Plan […]
Continue ReadingMAY 2013 Subscribe toPacific Maritime Magazine PRINT EDITION May 2013 Issue Not So Fast By Marilyn Raia The propulsion issue of this magazine is a good place to examine the law pertaining to vessel speed. A vessel’s speed may be governed by federal, state and/or local law depending on where […]
Continue ReadingLosing Steam, Even With Larger Payroll Gains · May’s larger-than-expected nonfarm employment gain did little to dispel the notion that economic activity is decelerating in the second quarter. · Lower paying occupations, including retail trade, the leisure and hospitality sector, temporary staffing and home health care, accounted for 103,000 of the 175,000 net new jobs […]
Continue ReadingThe June 7 issue of ACWA News is now available online. This issue includes more coverage of the 2013 ACWA Spring Conference & Exhibition and the noteworthy programs, panels and meetings from the week in Sacramento. Highlights this issue include: • ACWA Board Discusses Water Bond and Need for Statewide Water Action Plan at May […]
Continue ReadingACWA’s eNews is a weekly roundup of California water news and events. Judge Upholds 2003 Colorado River Quantification Settlement Agreement The decade-old pact that apportions the state’s share of water from the Colorado River was upheld in a decision issued this week by Sacramento Superior Court Judge Lloyd G. Connelly. A set of […]
Continue ReadingMAY 2013 Pacific Maritime Magazine PRINT EDITION May 2013 Issue Not So Fast By Marilyn Raia The propulsion issue of this magazine is a good place to examine the law pertaining to vessel speed. A vessel’s speed may be governed by federal, state and/or local law depending on where the […]
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