Main Street and Main News

Returning to her hometown to present a program on her latest endeavor as managing editor of the magazine, "Retail Minded," Julie Johnson Hillery will be in Cambridge at Francis Family Restaurant at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 31.

METUCHEN - The borough served up a slice of Americana this morning for those gathered for the community's 85th annual Memorial Day parade.

You had Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs and Jon Corzine of MF Global on the hot seat.

A four-year undertaking to install a water line through the center of town is complete and set to supply clean water to residences and municipal buildings with tainted wells.

It must be gremlins in my computer. My apologies to Elaine Ciancio and Olyvia Houston.

Investor anger mounted Wednesday over the initial public offering of Facebook stock last week, which was fumbled by the banks that managed the deal and complicated by technical problems at the Nasdaq stock exchange.

The City of Mansfield Water Repair Department will be flushing fire hydrants beginning Thursday at 10 a.m. in the following areas: Newman Street at East Fifth Street; Park Ave.

A simple piece of downtown real estate caused City Tavern owner and Homegrown Fest organizer Josh Florence to have an epiphany back in January 2010, when he was trying to think of a way to get local bands in front of a bigger audience.

Haritas Bibas , former owner of Bibas Diner and Bibas One's-A-Meal in Houston, has plans to open a new 24-hour Greek-American diner in downtown Houston.

Drivers Idle More Than 40 Hours A Year in America's Ten Worst Traffic Cities; Waste over 60 Hours Annually on our Most Gridlocked Roads KIRKLAND,WA--MAY 22, 2012: INRIX, a leading international provider of traffic information and intelligent driver services, today released its fifth Annual INRIX Traffic Scorecard revealing a startling 30 percent ... (more)

Owner Bill Wallis says recent projects have made the downtown a more pleasant place to shop.

The DividendRank formula at Dividend Channel ranks a coverage universe of thousands of dividend stocks, according to a proprietary formula designed to identify those stocks that combine two important characteristics - strong fundamentals and a valuation that looks inexpensive.

Investors who managed to buy Facebook Inc shares ahead of the No. 1 social network's initial public offering might want to think twice before "flipping" them.

It struck me as odd knowing how much money is at stake in underwriting fees and newfound wealth set against a rapidly collapsing stock market.

Facebook's numbers boggle the mind: hundreds of millions of people using the online forum every day to stay in touch and herald life's biggest and most mundane achievements.

With nearly 100 business owners and key Houston mergers and acquisitions players in attendance, greatest concerns included: 1.Growth Capital 2.Exit Alternatives 3.Negotiations 4.Market Valuation 5.Trading Multiples Panelist Tim Moore, managing partner and leader of the Houston investment banking arm of Doeren Mayhew firm TR Moore & Company, noted ... (more)

Though BDCs, or business development companies, may seem risky, they're really not.

Kregg Dailey rehearses his role as Dr. Madden in the Stages Repertory Theatre' production of "Next To Normal." Photo: R. Clayton McKee / A© R. Clayton McKee Kregg Dailey has played roles in more than three dozen musicals and plays throughout Houston, including this year's "The Coast of Utopia" trilogy at Main Street Theater in the Village and ... (more)

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel , on 5/17/12, Main Street Capital Corporation will trade ex-dividend, for its monthly dividend of $0.14, payable on 6/15/12. As a percentage of MAIN's recent stock price of $23.82, this dividend works out to approximately 0.59%. Below is a dividend history chart for MAIN, showing ... (more)

Detectives said a woman about four months pregnant went to the Greyhound Bus Station in the 2100 block of Main Street on April 30 to go to Dallas to visit the baby's father.