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Questions are being raised about the viability of a company slated to be the anchor tenant for Crawfordsville's new commerce park after officials seized its office equipment for auction.
Only books and some office furniture inhabit the Polyglot Press offices on the third floor of National City Bank, 101 W. Main St.
Sheriff Dennis Rice posted a notice of seizure on the door when he confiscated computer keyboards, speakers and monitors, phones, software and office furniture. An auction scheduled for next week at Polyglot's Crawfordsville headquarters will be rescheduled because the building's owner asked Rice to have the auction elsewhere.
Christopher Michael Doty, a former employee of Polyglot President David Scott in the Crawfordsville office, sued Scott for back pay earlier this year.
Gov. Haley Barbour has called a special session of the state legislature for today (Thursday) when he will ask legislators to cut the state tax on modular homes for Gulf Coast residents to by $4,000, thereby reducing the total cost of the homes to $6,000.
At least one state representative beleives the issue could meet some opposition in the House and drag the session out over a number of days.
Barbour said that reducing the cost of modular homes is one of the most effective ways to remove barriers to housing for those whose residences were destroyed or damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
The proposal was part of a bill during the last regular legislative session this year that passed the Senate, but was not brought to the floor for a vote in the House of Representatives.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. has entered the final stage of negotiations on forming an alliance with Areva, the French state-owned nuclear power plant construction company, to build nuclear power plants and reactors, sources close to the company said Sunday. MHI and Areva plan to build a strong alliance through jointly developing new reactors using the pressurized water reactor (PWR) format, the main format for nuclear power plants in the world, jointly accepting orders and cooperating in technology, the sources said. The envisioned MHI-Areva alliance will compete with the Toshiba Corp.-Westinghouse Electric Corp. alliance and the Hitachi Ltd.-General Electric Co. tie-up for nuclear power plant business. There are two major types of nuclear reactors--PWRs, which are mainly used by Kansai Electric Power Co.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The global expansion of nuclear energy is not a threat to the non-proliferation regime, but the greatest risk is from terrorists who could build a dirty bomb with nuclear waste from a medical facility, industry experts said. "Nuclear power plants are essentially fortresses. It is very difficult for a terrorist to contemplate a way to obtain material from a nuclear power plant and put it to malicious use," John Ritch, director general of the World Nuclear Association, said on Monday. .
THE Chinese People's Liberation Army has donated earthmoving construction equipment worth US$1 million to the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, a development that will go a long way in alleviating accommodation problems in the force. The heavy plant equipment that includes a grader, bulldozer, front-end loader, two tipping trucks and a toolbox would be used for clearing and levelling new construction sites, opening access roads and excavation of ponds in the construction of sewer systems for ZDF personnel. The equipment was presented to deputy secretary for policy, Public Relations and International Affairs in the Ministry of Defence Mr Patrick Machaya on behalf of Defence Secretary Mr Trust Maphosa by Chinese defence attaché Senior Colonel Tian Jianjun at a brief ceremony at Pomona Barracks yesterday.
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