CHICAGO—-Ventas, Inc. said today that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.5125 per share, payable in cash on September 30, 2009 to stockholders of record on September 11, 2009.

A gaggle of big banks have repaid their loans to the government under the $700 billion financial rescue. Is there a chance taxpayers will eventually recoup the rest of the money spent on this and other bailouts — and maybe even take in a little profit?

RESTON, Va.—-NCI, Inc. , a leading provider of information technology , engineering, and professional services and solutions to U.S. federal government agencies, announced today that it will issue its third quarter 2009 financial results after the market close on Tuesday, November 3, 2009.

Minnesota soybeans are beginning to turn yellow. And that’s actually a good thing. Turning yellow is a milestone in the crop’s development, which has lagged partly due to continued cool weather.

Buckley Air Force Base, a 3,200-acre campus spread over rolling hills on the eastern side of the Denver area, is the first site in the Air Force Space Command to go solar in a big way.

President Barack Obama notified Congress on Monday he is reducing pay increases for federal workers from 2.4 percent to 2 percent.

TAMPA, Fla.—-Seminole Electric Cooperative, Inc. today filed evidence with the federal Surface Transportation Board demonstrating that since January 1, 2009, CSX Transportation, Inc. has been severely overcharging Seminole, its owner-member cooperatives, and their members’ consumers for coal transportation service.

AUSTIN, Texas—-In the course of routine surveillance, Fitch affirms its ‘A’ rating on the City of Oakland, California’s outstanding $56.1 million sewer revenue bonds, 2004 series A.