By: Brittany Hoover on May 16, 2012 - 4:38pm - Add new comment
The U.S. Small Business Administration is hosting key business forums at National Small Business Week 2012 and encouraged small business owners and entrepreneurs to attend. If you're not making the trip to Washington, D.C., you can view the live webcast for free.
By: Brittany Hoover on May 14, 2012 - 6:00pm - Add new comment
Twenty Texas locations of Hostess Brands reported layoffs Tuesday, according to the Texas Workforce Commisssion.
In a list of WARN notices emailed to me today from the TWC in Austin, 20 locations of the Twinkie, Wonder Bread and Dingdong maker were listed for reporting layoffs.
Hostess locations reported layoffs in the following Texas counties: one in Bexar, one in Travis, one in Bell, four in Dallas, one in Shelby, one in Montgomery, three in Harris, one in Bowie, one in Archer, one in Jefferson, two in Tarrant, one in Grayson, one in Palo Pinto and one in Hunt.
By: Brittany Hoover on May 14, 2012 - 4:43pm - Add new comment
This week's poll is up on the A-J business website.
Just visit http://lubbockonline.com/business or click on the business tab at the top of the homepage.
On the top left of the business page, there's a blue quicklink that says Vote Now.
This week's poll asks, "What type of tablet device do you use?"
Each week, I'll gather the results on Thursday morning and publish them in my Sunday business column. Look for a new poll every week.
By: Brittany Hoover on May 9, 2012 - 4:17pm - Add new comment
This week I was transported back in time (a few years at least) to the days of driving my fellow teenage friends around in my little red car with the windows rolled down and the music blaring.
It was my reminiscent reaction to reading a report from AAA -- a recent study found a strong association between the number and age of passengers present in a vehicle and the risk of a teen driver dying in a traffic crash.
By: Brittany Hoover on May 7, 2012 - 3:03pm - Add new comment
The Lubbock Chamber of Commerce announced the Great Outdoors Expo will take place this weekend at the Midland County Horseshoe, 2002 Cotton Flat Road.
The family event, hosted by chamber member Silver Spur Trade Shows, is from 3 to 8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Here are some of the things you can find at the expo:
By: Brittany Hoover on May 4, 2012 - 5:32pm - Add new comment
The Visit Lubbock and Lubbock Sports teams compiled some fun facts regarding Lubbock tourism in recognition of National Travel & Tourism Week, celebrated Saturday through May 13.
By: Brittany Hoover on May 3, 2012 - 6:27pm - Add new comment
The first full week of May each year is National Travel and Tourism week. Visit Lubbock has teamed up with local attractions to offer a variety of promotions, aiming to increase awareness of local hot spots.
In celebration of the week, Visit Lubbock released these tourism facts.
By: Brittany Hoover on April 26, 2012 - 7:21pm - Add new comment
In case you haven't noticed the switch-up on our bylines here at the A-J, I'm now on the business beat. Former courts reporter, Logan Carver, will be covering higher education and health, and former business reporter, Walt Nett, is taking over courts.
On Wednesday, I trekked out to Xcel Energy's Jones Station southeast of Lubbock for a presentation about the state of the company, growth opportunities, etc.
By: Brittany Hoover on April 11, 2012 - 10:12pm - Add new comment
The Texas Tech University Faculty Senate elected its officers for the 2012-2013 school year Wednesday at its April meeting.
Sandy River, personal librarian of philosophy and women's studies, was elected to be secretary.
Sam Bradley, advertising department chair and associate professor in the College of Mass Communications, will return as vice president.
Daniel Nathan, associate professor and director of Graduate Studies within the Philosophy Department, was re-elected as president.
By: Brittany Hoover on March 7, 2012 - 2:09am - Add new comment
Texas Tech University President Guy Bailey first introduced me to this stairstep graphic that illustrates Tech's pathway to Tier One back in December.
Last week at the board of regents meeting, he used it while explaining Tech's goal to reach the status (or likeness) of American Association of Universities schools, or AAU.
