http://www.fwbusinesspress.com Breaking News brought to you by Fort Worth Business Press Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:30:04 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/images/fwbp_logo.jpg http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/index.php http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12139 All the build up for North Texas Super Bowl XLV in 2011 seems to be holding its own as super bowl host committee members announced today a study forecasting the event will bring in a regional economic impact of $612... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12139 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12134 Following a handful of months as interim chancellor for the Tarrant County College District, the TCC Board of Trustees has named Erma Johnson Hadley chancellor for college district, making her the first woman and first... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12134 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12136 The tide looks to be turning for RadioShack Corp. to retain its corporate headquarters in Fort Worth after just last fall reportedly shopping the country for a new corporate headquarters location. RadioShack extended its... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12136 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12138 The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is beefing up enforcement in the Barnett Shale area. The agency announced March 12 it is hiring six new inspectors to work in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and is also... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12138 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12133 The Environmental Protection Agency on March 11 awarded the city of Fort Worth $400,000 to be used to identify and inventory vacant, abandoned and under-used properties, known as brownfields. The funds also are meant to... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12133 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12132 Devon Energy Corp. will sell a large chunk of international assets to BP for $7 billion, and also will form a joint venture with the company to develop Canadian oil sands. The Oklahoma City-based company, which is the... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12132 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12131 A study of the small earthquakes near the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in 2008 and 2009 says the saltwater injection disposal wells in the area were a “plausible cause” for seismic activity. However, the... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12131 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12130 At the close of the 2010 first quarter, new foreclosure data shows third party buyers picked up foreclosed Tarrant County properties at auction for an average of 57 cents on the dollar. According to the latest numbers... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12130 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12126 The U.S. Secretary of Energy wasted no time outlining his arguments for climate change legislation at a Houston energy conference, even as the governor of the state in which he was speaking is pushing back against the... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12126 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12129 Shareholders have approved the merger of Denbury Resources Inc. and Encore Acquisition Co. the two companies announced March 9. The deal was approved by stockholders in both companies in meetings March 9. The two... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12129 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12128 An endowed scholarship has been set up in the name of former Fort Worth Mayor Bob Bolen at Texas Christian University. The Sarah & Ross Perot Jr. Foundation funded the scholarship. “Mayor Bolen lived by the... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12128 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12127 Detroit-based Superior Capital Partners LLC announced March 8 that it has formed Edge Adhesives Holdings Inc., an investment platform, to acquire the assets of Fort Worth-based Q’SO Inc. The purchase price was not... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12127 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12125 The world is changing – that was the theme energy experts expressed on day one of a Houston energy conference that attracts industry players from all around the globe. Despite a present slump due to the recession,... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12125 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:00:00 -0500