Which school is getting most profit/coach pay?

This is in no way a scientific examination of just how reasonable college coaches get paid.  So, please don’t waste your breath telling me the holes in these numbers.  All I am simply trying to show is how much (per win) a school is paying its head coach against how much (per win) to school [...]

U.S. sees job gains in March

The U.S. economy’s recovery is starting to gain traction, as employers added 162,000 non-farm payroll jobs in March, the best job growth since the nation entered a recession in December 2007, the government reported Friday. In another bit of good news, the unemployment rate held steady in March at 9.7 percent for the third consecutive [...]

WEG organizers raise economic impact projections

The tickets are selling, the vendors are booking booths, the hotel reservations are filling up, and the portable toilets will be ordered soon. Six months out, organizers said Tuesday, the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games are projected to have an economic impact of $167 million. That’s up from a 2007 estimate of $150 million, [...]

Georgetown arena to be studied by state

State officials gave preliminary approval Thursday to allow staffers to begin examining a proposal in Georgetown for a massive project that would include a 6,500-seat publicly owned arena, three new hotels and a new interchange on Interstate 75. The Georgetown Events & Commerce Center project also would include 622,000 square feet of retail space, 72,000 [...]

’09 Farmers Market – a year of change

For the Lexington Farmers Market, this summer was the best of seasons and the worst of seasons. The market, which has more than 60 vendor members, just wrapped up its first year in a new location, in Cheapside Park. The year was “very positive, all in all,” market manager Jeff Dabbelt said. “We certainly had [...]