Past Articles by Andrew Schneider
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Texas Joins Multi-State Settlement In E-Book Price Fixing Case The Office of Attorney General Greg Abbot announced Texas has joined 32 other states to settle a case against Penguin Group over price fixing in the electronic book market. |
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New Construction Starts Up 4% Over Past Year The value of building contracts for Greater Houston over the twelve months ending in April were up slightly compared to the previous twelve months. |
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Will A Stricter Sulfur Rule Drive Up Gas Prices? The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed slashing the sulfur content of gasoline by 2017. Refiners say the rule would cost billions of dollars to implement. |
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Plunging Inventory Pushes Houston Home Prices To Record Highs Houston home sales continued climbing in April, sending home prices to all-time highs. |
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Consumers Reluctant to Boost Spending, Despite Falling Gas Prices U.S. gasoline prices have fallen roughly thirty cents a gallon since February. But few consumers are pumping their savings back into the economy. |
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Jobs Outlook Improves For All But Youngest Vets As Memorial Day 2013 approaches, the job market for post-9/11 veterans is showing unusual strength. But unemployment remains stubbornly high for the youngest veterans. |
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Bauer Business Focus: Comicpalooza Chairman John Simons Comicpalooza returns to the George R. Brown Convention Center next weekend. This year’s guests include Sir Patrick Stewart of Star Trek: The Next Generation and the X-Men films and Avery Brooks of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Comicpalooza chairman John Simons joins Andrew Schneider on this week’s installment of the Bauer Business Focus. |
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New Apartment Construction Still Chasing Demand The Houston Apartment Association held its annual conference and expo at Reliant Center on Thursday. |
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Winding Down the War, Part IV: Six Deaths In Qalat On April 6th, the provincial reconstruction team based in Qalat, Afghanistan suffered a devastating loss. Six team members were killed during a failed attempt to assassinate the governor of Zabul Province. KUHF's Andrew Schneider was the first reporter to meet with the team after the attack. |
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GHP Seeks To Head Off Labor Crunch The Greater Houston Partnership has announced a new effort head off potential shortages of skilled labor that could limit the region's economic growth. |
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Winding Down the War, Part III: Hunting IEDs In The Flamingo Corridor Afghanistan's Highway 1 is the country’s largest and most important commercial artery. Protecting the highway is one of the top priorities for the 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, based in Zabul Province. KUHF Reporter Andrew Schneider accompanied the squadron on a mission to root out a persistent Taliban threat to the road system. |
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Houston Business Plants Trees To Offset Pipeline Construction Resource Environmental Solutions is approaching a milestone. The Montrose-based company has planted nearly 6 million trees to offset the effect of economic development on vulnerable wetlands. |
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Winding Down The War, Part II: Mission To Garm Abak Pass The 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, based at Fort Bliss, is now halfway through a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan's Kandahar Province. KUHF reporter Andrew Schneider joined the unit on a recent patrol into Taliban-held territory. |
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Despite April Slowdown, Houston Auto Sales On Track For Strong Year Houston auto sales in April were down compared to March but overall sales for the past year performed strongly. |
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Winding Down the War, Part I: Strongpoint DeMaiwand KUHF reporter Andrew Schneider recently returned from a month-long embed in southern Afghanistan. In the first of a four-part series, Andrew describes life at a remote outpost for a Texas-based unit. |
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More Hiring Managers Insist On Degrees For Low-Skilled Jobs Job opportunities for workers without college degrees are dwindling faster than ever. |
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Sales Slide In April, But Job Growth Remains Solid Houston industry slowed in April according to the latest survey by the Institute for Supply Management — Houston. |
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Bauer Business Focus: Jessica Bolaños Saturday is graduation day for students at the University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business. One of the graduating seniors, Jessica Bolaños, has launched a nonprofit to promote literacy in the developing world. She joins Andrew Schneider on this week’s installment of the Bauer Business Focus. |
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Houston Retains Top Spot For US Seaborne Trade With Brazil Houston has held onto its ranking as Brazil's largest U.S. seaborne trade partner, both by value and by weight. |
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Women Filling Larger Percentage Of Oil & Gas Jobs The pace of hiring in the oil and gas industry slowed in the first quarter of 2013, compared to the fourth quarter of 2012. But the workforce itself is growing more diverse. |
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Ex-Enron CEO Skilling's Sentence To Be Reduced Federal prosecutors and attorneys for former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling say they have reached an agreement that will reduce the jailed executive's sentence for his role in the energy giant's collapse. |
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Bauer Business Focus: Ric Campo On Downtown Houston's Evolving Skyline Several major building projects have appeared in the past decade — expansion at the George R. Brown Convention Center, the new Dynamo Stadium, the downtown Hilton and others. On this morning's Bauer Business Focus, Andrew Schneider talks with Ric Campo, chairman of Camden Property Trust, about downtown Houston and its evolving skyline. |
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Bauer Business Focus: John Lopez U.S. student loan debt now exceeds $1 trillion, and the delinquency rate on college loans is rising. John Lopez is a clinical assistant professor of finance at the University of Houston's Bauer College of Business. He joins Andrew Schneider on the Bauer Business Focus to discuss the high cost of financing a college education. |
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Bauer Business Focus: Jose Pradilla Three Day Startup began as a student organization at UT Austin in 2008. It’s since spread to more than fifty universities on four continents. This weekend marks the second 3 Day Startup event at the University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business. Student organizer Jose Pablo Ramirez Pradilla joins Andrew Schneider on the Bauer Business Focus. |
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Bauer Business Focus: Michael Shannon Michael Shannon is a former Navy SEAL and the founder of three small businesses. He's also a senior at the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Houston's Bauer College of Business. He joins Andrew Schneider on the Bauer Business Focus to discuss Wolffest, the center's annual business plan competition. |
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Texas-based Troops Head For Southern Afghanistan Yesterday morning, KUHF reporter Andrew Schneider touched down in Kabul, Afghanistan. He'll soon be heading to the south of the country on a month-long embed. Andrew visited Fort Bliss last fall to meet and train with one of the units he's embedding with. |
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Oil & Gas Leadership Roles Opening Up For Women The growing labor shortage in the energy sector is opening up new opportunities for women. |
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Bauer Business Focus: Jay Mincks Jay Mincks is executive vice president of sales and marketing at Insperity. The Houston business advisory firm is collaborating with the University of Houston's Bauer College of Business on a new training program for mid-career professionals. Mincks joins Andrew Schneider on this week's installment of the Bauer Business Focus. |
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Jailed Ex-Enron CEO Jeff Skilling May Be Released Early Discussions are underway that could lead to a shorter sentence for former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling. |
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Oil Drilling Permits Surge in First Two Months Of 2013 The state's oil and gas economy grew strongly in January and February, according to the latest Texas Petro Index. |
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API Calls For Less Energy Regulation, More Access To Federal Land The American Petroleum Institute sought to rally support from Houston business leaders to push Washington to enact a comprehensive energy policy. |
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New Clean Fuel Standards: Who Pays? A rule just proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency would cut sulfur levels in gasoline by 60 percent. Refiners say the rule, known as Tier Three, would dramatically increase costs at the pump. |
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Shifting Oil Sands Economics Work To Houston's Benefit A study by energy research firm IHS CERA provides a fresh economic argument for building the Keystone XL pipeline. |
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Texas Adds 80,600 Jobs In February Texas led the nation in over-the-month job gains in February, according to numbers just released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. |
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Bauer Business Focus: Leslie Killian This year, the University of Houston's Bauer College of Business is offering four different summer camp programs for high school students. Leslie Killian is assistant director for outreach at the college. She joins Andrew Schneider on this week's installment of the "Bauer Business Focus." |
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Gulf Coast Businesses Brace For Severe Hurricane Season Houston-based ImpactWeather is forecasting this year's Atlantic hurricane season will be more severe than last year's. A storm in the Gulf of Mexico would affect Houston-area businesses, even if it misses the region altogether. |
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Soft Exports, Falling Rig Count Slow Texas Growth Texas economic activity dipped in January, according to Comerica Bank's monthly index. |
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Chemical Industry Rides Crest Of Natural Gas Wave Ten years ago, domestic chemical manufacturing looked bound for extinction. But the revolution in natural gas production has given the industry a new lease on life, bringing thousands of new jobs to Greater Houston. |
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Bristow Wins Contract To Run UK's Airborne Search And Rescue A private Houston company is set to take over the work of Britain's military search-and-rescue helicopter service, whose pilots include Prince William. |
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Consumers Keep Spending Despite Payroll Tax Hike It's been nearly three months since federal payroll taxes reverted to 2010 levels. But a new study finds most consumers are acting as if nothing has changed. |
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Managers Cautious But Upbeat About Texas Economy A new survey of Texas business owners finds a large majority do not expect an economic downturn in 2013. |
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Choking On Ethanol And High Gas Prices The high price of gasoline is prompting calls for a fresh look at the nation's renewable fuel standards. |
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As Older Workers Delay Retirement, Younger Ones Pay a Price A new survey suggests a growing number of older workers will push back their retirement due to economic concerns. That will mean fewer opportunities for those just entering the workforce. |
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Post-9/11 Veterans' Unemployment Rate Falls A new government report says the unemployment rate for veterans who have served since the September 11 terrorist attacks dropped sharply in 2012. |
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Houston Builders Wary as Home Construction Gains Steam US builders started construction of homes in February at the second-fastest pace in more than four years. But that's doing little to ease the shortage of housing in Houston |
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Low Inventory Drives Houston Home Prices to Record High February marked 21 months in a row of positive home sales, according to the Houston Association of Realtors. |
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Rep. Gene Green Pushes For Keystone XL Approval Houston-area Congressman Gene Green is making a fresh effort to win the Obama administration's approval for the Keystone XL Pipeline. |
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Bauer Business Focus: Christina Lesher As more baby boomers hit retirement age, the demand for attorneys who can deal with issues such as Medicaid and estate planning is on the rise. Christina Lesher is a Houston attorney specializing in elder law and a graduate of the University of Houston Law Center. She joins Andrew Schneider on this week’s installment of the Bauer Business Focus. |
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After A Frenzy, Oil & Gas Recruiting Pauses For Breath Houston-based energy information service Rigzone is reporting a slump in recruiting for oil and gas professionals in the second half of 2012. |
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Irish Jobs Minister To Forge Dublin-Houston Trade Links Irish Jobs Minister Richard Bruton is leading a delegation of forty companies on a trade and investment mission to Texas. |
