News & Views

• A tax credit for cleaners gets hearing
• Text of HR 1303
• Where quality counts -- and costs
• Newest entry in home-care market claims to reveal the drycleaners' secret
• 17,000 attend Texcare show
• NCA-I Committee plans for post-Seitz era
• EDITORIAL: Credit where credit is due
• EDITORIAL: There is nothing up our sleeves
• Plan today to retire tomorrow

Around the US

• Model Cleaners of Pittsburgh launches Internet delivery service
• WV 2000 convention scheduled for August
• Registration begins for Atlantic City trade show

• WFI announces plans for upcoming convention, seminar
• IDLA 2000 convention, golf outing set for September

• New Jersey cleaner aides woman under attack by man with knife
• Anton's offers summer reading program for grade school students
• NCA-I's NY School of Drycleaning offers courses in coming months

• CLA's Road Show 2000 makes three stops in Texas
• Ferguson named new LMDLA director

• SC passes legislation modifying the Drycleaning Restoration Law
• Nashville hosts Milnor seminar in September

• CCA offers registration packages for Fabricare 2000

Columns

• Bill Bohannon: Paying yourself and gauging your profit
• Stan Caplan: GreenEarth: Another alternative solvent
• Ray Colucci: Remembering the "good" old days
• Don Desrosiers: Is it time to upgrade equipment?
• Dan Eisen: Problems with backed fabrics
• Stan Golomb: Wholesale cleaning: then and now
• Frank Kollman: If an employee asks to have a co-worker present during a disciplinary interview
• Frank Lucenta: Suede and leather pressing: a summary
• Dennis McCrory: When an employee wants a raise
• Bill Bogus: Practicing the gentle art of persuasion
• Alan Robson: Capt. Control is taking a day off

People

• Three invited to join Varsity group
• Methods for Management joins with engineering firm
• Hoyt names manager for NE region
• Royaltone sets training dates
• Anton's honored for coat program
• Clean show moves up the ranks
• Fulton noted for 'zero defects"
• New internet service planned
• Foster-Stephens launches web site

Information Central

• Tag rolls for computer systems
• Spray sizing with softeners
• Products for hydrocarbon systems
• Business plan templates
• Prefinish conditioner for wetcleaning
• Boiler bulletin
• Identification pins
• Shoulder guards
• All-purpose ink stain remover
• Tracking and control software for chemicals