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Lehighton borough engineer criticizes plans for car shop (The Morning Call)Zoners had OK'd project with conditions. Planners want changes. Plans for an antique car restoration shop in Lehighton, approved June 29 by the borough Zoning Hearing Board, are ''so incomplete it's disgusting'' and were approved ''on a dream,'' the borough engineer said Wednesday during a Planning Commission meeting.

It's official: Ortman is engineer (Chillicothe Gazette)Charles Ortman is officially the new county engineer.

Repairs to inn 'doable'; Engineer's report says building at risk unless repairs done 'as soon as possible' (Owen Sound Sun Times)A third engineer's report - the second requested by Paisley Inn owner Burke Maidlow concerning the historic building - says the inn's northwest wing "is at risk in its present mothballed state" but that repairs to the inn are "doable."

Why we stay home and why it's a bad idea (CNN Money)A friend of mine whom I will call Vijay is one of the most normal investors I know. A software engineer, Vijay has stock options in his company that (on paper, at least) made him a millionaire in the late 1990s, a pauper in 2001 and solidly upper middle class today.

CORRECTED: Woman held in UK bomb plot released (Reuters via Yahoo! News) (Corrects Kafeel's occupation to engineer and name of his brother to Sabeel)

Engineer in charge allegedly was told it wasn't his job to inspect work (New Haven Register)-HARTFORD ? The state engineer most directly responsible for monitoring the scandal-plagued Interstate 84 project testified Wednesday that his superior told him it "was not my job to do inspections."

It's official: Ortman is engineer (CentralOhio.com)Charles Ortman is officially the new county engineer. Monday, the Ross County Commissioners temporarily appointed Ortman until receiving official word on who the Republican Central Committee would appoint in Don Carnes place.