Oil and gas companies in the US have been on a consolidation tear, and industry watchers predict it isn’t over. Last year, crude oil and natural gas exploration and production companies increased spending on mergers and acquisitions to $234 billion, the biggest amount adjusted for inflation since 2012, according to data from the Energy Information […]
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David Zaslav Talks TNT Without the NBA, Consolidation, and That Disney-Max Bundle
Will TNT survive without the NBA? Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav seems confident that it will. While acknowledging that the company is still talking to the NBA about a new rights deal (the league appears poised to give packages to Disney, NBC and Amazon, though WBD has some “matching” rights), Zaslav said that the […]
Parents want Poudre School District to stop closure, consolidation plans
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (KDVR) — More than 60 parents gathered to make their voices heard as Poudre School District administrators consider consolidating at least five schools. It was standing-room-only Monday night inside the Council Tree Library community meeting room. Parents say they want to stop the vote and raised concerns about economic impacts, property values, […]
1 lawmaker stops South Carolina health care consolidation bill that had overwhelming support
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bill that would have consolidated six South Carolina heath care agencies and was overwhelmingly passed by both chambers of the General Assembly died on the session’s final day Thursday in a procedural move by a member angry he was mocked by his colleagues. Republican Rep. Josiah Magnuson has been against […]
US senators urge Postal Service to pause delivery network consolidation
By David Shepardson (Reuters) -A bipartisan group of 26 senators on Wednesday urged the U.S. Postal Service to pause planned further consolidation to its processing and delivery network, warning it could slow mail deliveries. The letter, seen by Reuters and led by Senator Gary Peters, who chairs the committee overseeing the USPS, urged a halt […]
How Oklahoma tribes are reversing years of consolidation with their own meat processing plants
HOMINY — Cole McKinney leapt onto the edge of a metal fence and began banging its side, trying to spook a nearly 700-pound bison into turning around inside its pen. But the bison repeatedly lowered its horned head into the fence, resisting McKinney’s order to face the other way. “This part’s not easy,” said McKinney, […]
Fowler Arthur backs bill on county court consolidation
Apr. 22—A bill to consolidate Ashtabula County’s Eastern and Western county courts had its first hearing in the Ohio House earlier this month, with State Rep. Sarah Fowler Arthur (R-99th District), the sponsor of the bill, testifying in support of it. In addition to combining the Eastern and Western county courts, the bill would expand […]
Freihofer’s Bakery Outlet closure in Lewiston part of wider consolidation
Apr. 18—Freihofer’s Bakery Outlet at 24 Landry Road in Lewiston has closed permanently. The outlet has been closed for several weeks, according to posts on social media, with employees apparently given little or no notice, which also happened at the Freihofer’s on Skowhegan Road in Fairfield at about the same time. Parent company Bimbo Bakeries […]
Rep. Golden introduces legislation to halt Postal Service consolidation
Apr. 16—Rep. Jared Golden, of Maine, D-2nd District, introduced legislation on Tuesday to halt the consolidation of mail processing facilities nationwide, taking the step just days after the U.S. Postal Service said it plans to shift some operations from Hampden 130 miles south to Scarborough. “Reducing local mail processing capacity and requiring mail to travel […]
EU Report Calls for Telecom Consolidation, Strong Energy Market
(Bloomberg) — The European Union should consider consolidation for telecom operators as a way to improve the bloc’s mobile and fixed networks and should further integrate its energy markets, according to a report it commissioned on competitiveness. Most Read from Bloomberg The concession on telecom, which is part of a report former Italian Prime Minister […]
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Commissioners sign off on draft language for court consolidation
Feb. 7—JEFFERSON — The Ashtabula County Board of Commissioners will be sending draft language of a bill to state legislators, seeking to consolidate the Eastern and Western County courts Commissioner Casey Kozlowski presented a final draft of a proposed bill to consolidate the the courts under a single, full-time judge in 2031. Kozlowski said the […]