Count him out at Commerce; Gregg exit highlights census issue.
COLUMN: IN OUR OPINION New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg's principled decision to withdraw as nominee for commerce secretary avoids what would almost inevitably have become a major source of conflict for President Barack Obama's administration. Any president, after all, deserves a Cabinet that is generally supportive of...

A census free of politics.
Byline: The Register-Guard Judd Gregg had better not be counting on receiving any valentines from the White House. The New Hampshire senator accepted President Obama's nomination as secretary of commerce, then withdrew Thursday after having second thoughts about irreconcilable political differences. Gregg, a Republican, should never have...

Impressive stats.
It's not exactly a page-turner, but the 2009 Statistical Abstract of the United States, published by the Census Bureau, paints a fascinating portrait-by-numbers of the nation. Among the info-bites in its almost 1,400 tables: West Virginia is the only state in which more people have died since 2000 than...

Stung by Worst Holiday Shopping Season in Decades, Retailers Forge Strategic Alliances.
MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Statistics just released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that the 2008 holiday shopping season was among the grimmest ever for retailers. During the critical October - December selling period, overall sales plummeted 7.7 percent below 2008 figures. And to make it all...

Snow Sports Market Sees First Decline in Sales.
MCLEAN, Va., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The snow sports market contracted for the first time this season as recession-conscious holiday shoppers spent fewer dollars. "According to the Census Bureau the rest of retail trade is down 11% so considering that, the snow sports market is weathering this economic downturn...

RP's population to reach 92.2 million this year, says NSO.
The country's population is expected to reach 92.2 million this year, the National Statistics Office (NSO) said yesterday. The NSO based its projection on the 2000 census-based population projections which it prepared in collaboration with the Inter-Agency Working Group on Population Projections. Of the 92.2...

Feature.
MIAMI - There is no box on US Census forms that accurately describes Ray Gongora. The Belize-born naturalized citizen grew up in an English-speaking Central American country, a former British colony where African slaves were once sold. He emigrated in 1986 to a country that deemed him...

Pizza Patron to Double U.S. Stores by 2011.
Nation's #1 Latino Pizza Brand Plans For Aggressive Growth DALLAS, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Pizza Patron, the premier Latino pizza brand, plans to double its number of units over the next two years as part of a strategy to gain market share throughout the country. The company...

Population growth forces vote.
Byline: Elaine Thompson SHREWSBURY - A special town meeting will be held tomorrow for a vote on increasing the number of town meeting members in Precinct 9 from 27 to 30. The special meeting, which only has the single warrant article, will begin at 7...

Physical therapy health human resource ratios: a comparative analysis of the United States and Canada.
Health human resources (HHR) continue to emerge as critical factors in health care policy planning. (1-3) An overall measure of supply within a workforce, the HHR ratio, is generally expressed as the number of health care practitioners relative to the population or a subset of the population. (4) The...