Year In Review: Loudouns Towns (Leesburg Today)
In Loudouns western towns leaders spent much of 2009 wrestling with budget and utility concerns. Economies were practiced in every local municipality as budgets were pared down, jobs either shifted or not refilled, and capital projects put on hold.

Bad Cement Jobs Plague Offshore Oil Rigs
Lax Regulation Seen in Tricky Process of Sealing Well with Cement, Which Is Suspected as Major Contributor to Gulf Disaster

Delicate work unfolds a mile beneath Gulf
It is a job that requires the expertise of a rocket scientist and the precision of a surgeon.

MathWorks buys building, expands in Natick (Boston Herald)
NATICK- MathWorks Inc. has purchased an office building in Natick for $30.8 million, part of an expansion that could create hundreds of new jobs at the engineering software...

Pratt & Whitney Closing Cheshire Plant, Eliminating 1,000 Jobs (FOX 61 Hartford)
Pratt & Whitney said today it will begin closing the Cheshire overhaul and repair plant and a related unit in East Hartford in 2010, eliminating 1,000 jobs.