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Latest Articles: United States News
Trane Announces 200 lay offs Today (Ft. Smith)
Post Date: 2010-02-19 14:20:16 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Trane Announces 200 Fort Smith Layoffs Today Staff Writer 10:52 AM CST, February 19, 2010 Trane Announces 200 Fort Smith Layoffs Today Related links * More than 200 Jobs Leaving Fort Smith More than 200 employees of the Trane Residential Solutions plant in Fort Smith have officially been laid off. Last month, Ingersoll Rand, Trane's parent company, proposed a plan to transfer a portion of production to a Trane plant in Lynn Haven, FL. Now that proposal is their 'game plan.' The company made its official decision today. About 197 hourly production jobs and 15 salaried jobs will be cut by the end of the year. Ingersoll Rand, expects 77 of those jobs will be eliminated by the ...
Boeing in St. Louis to lay off 1,020
Post Date: 2010-02-19 14:18:55 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Boeing to lay off 1,020, including in St. Louis St. Louis Business Journal - by Kelsey Volkmann Boeing issued 60-day layoff notices Friday to 1,020 employees, including some in St. Louis. Fewer than 100 local workers in Boeing's St. Louis-based Defense, Space & Security unit are affected, said Dan Beck, a Boeing spokesman. Most of the affected employees work in information technology as part of Boeing’s Engineering, Operations & Technology unit in Washington State and California, he said. Their last day of work will be in April. This is part of Chicago-based Boeing (NYSE: BA)'s plan to cut 10,000 jobs companywide, including about 1,000 in the defense unit. ...
Poll Finds PBS Most Trused Name in News
Post Date: 2010-02-19 14:03:09 by Brian S
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A new poll finds PBS among the most trusted institutions in America and the most trusted name in news. According to an annual poll conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media, 40% of Americans trust PBS' news and public affairs programs a "great deal." Fox News was second at 29% and CNN was third at 27%. Additionally, when asked to chose whether news coverage, investigations and discussions of major issues on PBS programs was "liberal," "mostly fair" or "conservative," 40% chose "mostly fair." NBC and ABC were second with 33% each followed by CNN (31%), NPR (29%), Fox News (25%) and MSNBC (24%). PBS Kids also earned high marks ...
Rap Star Blames Romney for Airplane Altercation
Post Date: 2010-02-19 13:34:00 by Badeye
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Rap Star Blames Romney for Airplane Altercation AP A rap star says former Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney first touched him -- and not the other way around -- during a confrontation aboard an Air Canada flight that was preparing to take off from Vancouver, British Columbia. print email share recommend (0) Stefan Gordy (L) and Skyler Gordy from the electro hop group LMFAO take the stage as presenters during the pre-telecast of the 52nd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles January 31, 2010. (Reuters) A rap star says former Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney first touched him -- and not the other way around -- during a confrontation aboard an Air Canada flight that ...
Kamakazi Pilot Joe Stack, Who Crashed Plane Into Austin Building, Hailed By Anti-Government Groups
Post Date: 2010-02-19 13:24:33 by Brian S
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THE FIRES in Austin were still burning yesterday when the Internet lit up with government haters cheering suicide pilot Joe Stack and calling him a hero. "Finally an American man took a stand against our tyrannical government that no longer follows the Constitution," wrote Emily Walters of Louisville, Ky. Walters was one of at least two dozen people who founded Facebook fan groups to hail the homicidal pilot. Most had only a tiny handful of members, but hers attracted more than 200 before Facebook removed it. "His sacrifice was for all of us," wrote Texan Tyler Britten. Crackpots were also praising the dead pilot on Twitter. "Joe Stack, you are a true American ...
Frustrated Owner Bulldozes Home Ahead Of Foreclosure
Post Date: 2010-02-19 13:09:45 by Brian S
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MOSCOW, Ohio --Like many people, Terry Hoskins has had troubles with his bank. But his solution to foreclosure might be unique. Hoskins said he's been in a struggle with RiverHills Bank over his Clermont County home for nearly a decade, a struggle that was coming to an end as the bank began foreclosure proceedings on his $350,000 home. "When I see I owe $160,000 on a home valued at $350,000, and someone decides they want to take it – no, I wasn't going to stand for that, so I took it down," Hoskins said. Hoskins said the Internal Revenue Service placed liens on his carpet store and commercial property on state Route 125 after his brother, a one-time business ...
The Obama Super Depression
Post Date: 2010-02-19 12:55:51 by dont eat that
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I have concluded that Barack Hussein Obama has gotten off far too Nobel Prize easy in his Great Obama Depression is termed a recession and this Obama stagflation about to implode into a double dip Great Depression which will be termed a "recovery" that Mr. Obama deserves all credit for a new term in........... America is experiencing an Obama Super Depression. Obama's aided, coaxed and strangling the American economy which George W. Bush had fixed in a recovery before he left office in January 2009 with 350 billion dollars (I put that in there as new readers need that focus point to get off the blame Bush Barbie Doll mantra leftists always chant.), is now a global implosion ...
Radical Anti-tax Groups Growing Threat, Say Law Enforcement
Post Date: 2010-02-19 12:22:25 by Brian S
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Joseph Stack, the 53-year-old software engineer who crashed his small plane into a seven-story office building in Austin, Texas, was part of a growing, violent anti-tax and anti-government movement that has become increasingly alarming to law enforcement agencies. Stack, who torched his home Thursday morning before setting out on his suicide flight, was fueled by his hatred of the Internal Revenue Service, which had offices and employed nearly 200 workers in the building. In his wake he left a rambling and lengthy online manifesto in which he railed against big government, bank bailouts and the IRS and revealed his decades-long involvement in the anti-tax movement and the evolution of his ...
UnitedHealth, Humana Profit Threatened as Medicare Cuts Loom [Be Careful What You Lobby Against]
Post Date: 2010-02-19 10:01:16 by war
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Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Medicare may announce cuts of as much as 4 percent in government payments to U.S. health insurers for policies serving the elderly, threatening profit growth at UnitedHealth Group Inc., Humana Inc. and HealthSpring Inc. The agency in charge of Medicare is due to announce preliminary rates today for insurers offering so-called Medicare Advantage plans in 2011. With President Barack Obama criticizing the $132 billion program as wasteful, the fees are unlikely to keep pace with companies’ costs, said Carl McDonald, an analyst with Oppenheimer & Co. in New York. Advantage has been “a huge driver” of industry earnings growth over the last three years, ...
Jon Voight Slams President Irkel On The “Factor”
Post Date: 2010-02-19 08:40:18 by dont eat that
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McDonnell's Deep Cuts Send Shock Waves in Virginia (500 jobs to be cut)
Post Date: 2010-02-19 01:07:04 by Nebuchadnezzar
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McDonnell's Deep Cuts Send Shock Waves in Virginia State reacts to massive cuts By BOB LEWIS Updated 9:49 AM EST, Thu, Feb 18, 2010 Print Email Share Buzz up! TWITTER FACEBOOK Getty Images Gov. Bob McDonnell has proposed deep, unprecedented cuts to public schools, the state government work force and health and welfare safety net programs in a $2.1 billion bid to balance a critically troubled state budget. The Republican governor, who ruled out any tax boosts before he took office a month ago, sent shock waves across a General Assembly struggling with its own budget plans and through teachers, state workers. The cuts include rolling back the base state support for local public ...
Sikorsky set to make Black Hawks in India (Sik to American workers: FU)
Post Date: 2010-02-19 00:56:32 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Sikorsky set to make Black Hawks in India UPI ^ | 1/18/2010 | UPI Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. announced plans to manufacture Black Hawk helicopters in India and is eyeing defense deals worth $8 billion-$12 billion. A unit of United Technologies, the U.S. helicopter maker said it was in talks with a string of Indian companies to build Black Hawks. "We will bring the Black Hawk here with the option to improve the horse power ...," Sikorsky Vice President Steve Estill said, adding that the additional power was being introduced to operate the helicopter between 14,000 and 15,000 feet. "We will bring the concept here, we will team for the development program with local industry, ...
ATK employees fear larger layoffs (300 more to be cut)
Post Date: 2010-02-19 00:30:31 by Nebuchadnezzar
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ATK employees fear larger layoffs loom Monday, February 8, 2010 By theleader Dave Archer Leader Assistant Editor Employees at Box Elder County’s largest employer are not only concerned about the next round of scheduled layoffs to take place in May, they are now fearing they could be much larger than originally anticipated. ATK officials announced last year the need to lay off up to 800 employees in January and May. Approximately 450 of those took place a few weeks ago, while the remaining 300 or so will be coming in a few months. But thanks to a proposal in U.S. President Barack Obama’s budget to cancel NASA’s Constellation program, which encompasses the Ares rocket ...
Jordan School District suffers $30M shortfall; 500 jobs to be cut by July
Post Date: 2010-02-19 00:28:58 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Jordan School District suffers $30M shortfall; 500 jobs to be cut by July David Wells, Senior Web Producer FOX 13 News 5:54 PM MST, February 11, 2010 Related links * Budget cuts may force Jordan School Dist to layoff workers Video WEST JORDAN, Utah - The Jordan School District is reducing its 2010-2011 budget by $30 million, which will result in approximately 500 layoffs before July 1, 2010. The budget cut will also cause Jordan School District to increase its class sizes by an average of four students per classroom. High school teachers will lose one prep period and teach an additional class to mitigate the class size increases. The Jordan Board of Education expects to identify the ...
Update: Humana to fire 2,500 (updated from 1400)
Post Date: 2010-02-19 00:26:26 by Nebuchadnezzar
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About 2,500 Humana workers face losing their jobs By Jere Downs • jdowns@courier-journal.com • February 17, 2010 About 2,500 Humana workers will lose their jobs companywide, including at least 750 at its Louisville headquarters, as the insurer adjusts to fewer plan members and prepares for the possibility of health-care reform. “This regrettable but necessary reduction in our workforce is a direct result of Humana’s need to align the size of our company with that of our membership,” Humana CEO Michael B. McAllister said in a statement. The company says the cuts will be partially offset by plans to add 1,100 jobs, partly to build more Web-based tools that allow ...
Cessna Oregon expects lay-offs, Freightliner lays off 190
Post Date: 2010-02-19 00:22:10 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Layoffs Hit Oregon Manufacturing Sector BY ETHAN LINDSEY Bend, OR January 9, 2009 1:14 a.m. Share Discuss Oregon is continuing to lose jobs. Freightliner is laying off 190 workers in Portland. And Cessna workers in Bend are bracing for more layoffs there. Central Oregon correspondent Ethan Lindsey reports. The exact number of jobs lost, if any, that will be lost at the Bend Cessna plant remains unknown. But Cessna’s president, in a memo to the company’s 12,000 employees, said major job cuts are coming. A spokesman confirmed the company's composite plane factory in Bend could see additional layoffs. 165 of Cessna's 500 Bend workers lost their jobs late last year. ...
Nevada Governor says "Hundreds of layoffs" possible ($1B deficit)
Post Date: 2010-02-19 00:20:00 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Nevada governor says hundreds of layoffs possible February 2, 2010 CARSON CITY, Nev.—Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons says hundreds of layoffs are likely, possibly more, as the state grapples with a nearly $1 billion budget shortfall. Discuss COMMENTS () Gibbons on Tuesday met with a handful of state schools superintendents, who were told to expect around 10 percent budget cuts for the rest of the biennium that ends June 30, 2011. But the governor told reporters he may propose deeper cuts for other state agencies. Gibbons says his administration is still working on a plan but estimates as many as 300 state workers may be eliminated. Such layoffs would be in addition to any jobs cut by ...
Redbox closing Downers Grove Center: 200 jobs to be lost.
Post Date: 2010-02-19 00:16:37 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Redbox closing Downers Grove center; outsourcing jobs By: Lorene Yue Feb. 18, 2010 (Crain's) — Redbox Automated Retail LLC is closing its call center in Downers Grove, a move that will eliminate 200 jobs by mid-summer. The Oakbrook Terrace-based DVD rental company said it began outsourcing its call center operations on Monday and plans to transition the work to the new service provider over the next few months. “After considering a number of options, it was determined that using a third party to manage our customer service operations was the best business decision for the company,” Redbox said in a statement. A spokesman declined to name the third-party provider and ...
Update: L.A. City Council Votes to eliminate 4,000 Jobs by July 1st
Post Date: 2010-02-19 00:06:52 by Nebuchadnezzar
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City Council Votes to Cut 4,000 Jobs The 9-3 vote came a day after a major credit-rating agency put the city on its negative watch list Updated 4:00 PM PST, Thu, Feb 18, 2010 Faced with a growing budget deficit and an endangered credit rating, the Los Angeles City Council voted Thursday to eliminate 4,000 municipal jobs by July 1. The council instructed "all departments and offices of the city, including elected offices, to expedite the elimination of 4,000 positions by any means necessary, including layoffs." Under the council's instruction, the positions must be identified within 45 days and scheduled for elimination as of July 1, the beginning of the next fiscal year. ...
Poll: The More People Hear From Sarah Palin The Less They Want To Elect Her
Post Date: 2010-02-18 20:49:52 by Skip Intro
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Poll: The More People Hear From Sarah Palin The Less They Want To Elect Her Is it possible that Sarah Palin’s new job as a Fox News analyst is working against her? There’s been much chatter lately that as a possible 2012 presidential candidate her position at the cable giant is inappropriate and gives her an unfair advantage. Not so, according to George Will who writes this in his column today: Conservatives, who rightly respect markets as generally reliable gauges of consumer preferences, should notice that the political market is speaking clearly: The more attention Palin receives, the fewer Americans consider her presidential timber. The latest Post-ABC News poll shows that ...
K-Mart to close 2 stores-128 jobs lost...13 more stores to be closed
Post Date: 2010-02-18 20:19:27 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Kmart closing 2 area stores, 13 nationwide By: Monée Fields-White Feb. 18, 2010 (Crain's) —Two Kmart stores are shuttering in the Chicago area, part of a nationwide closing of 13 locations. A spokeswoman for the retail chain’s parent, Sears Holdings Corp., said 57 employees at the Woodstock store and another 71 at a store in Crestwood will lose their jobs. “As part of our normal course of business, we continually evaluate our store portfolio and make decisions accordingly,” she said. The stores are expected to close by May 9. Other Midwestern states impacted include Ohio, which reported five stores closing and 314 job losses. The closings come amid an ...
L.A. City: Job losses of 1200 to 2000
Post Date: 2010-02-18 19:47:16 by Nebuchadnezzar
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L.A. mayor urges new round of city job cuts Villaraigosa wants to eliminate between 1,200 and 2,000 more positions. His stance signals a more aggressive approach to the city's budget crisis. By Phil Willon, David Zahniser and Maeve Reston Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a second round of city job cuts Thursday -- between 1,200 and 2,000 positions -- and warned that much deeper layoffs would be needed if the City Council and employee unions failed to act quickly on proposals to cut payroll costs, trim services and auction city assets. With the current $212-million budget shortfall expected to double next year, Villaraigosa said the threat of layoffs was his only ...
Harselle Plant to cut 320 jobs
Post Date: 2010-02-18 19:44:48 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Hartselle plant to cut 320 jobs By Deangelo McDaniel Staff Writer Dining Card HARTSELLE — Emerson Climate Technologies will lay off 300 full-time and 20 temporary employees at its Hartselle plant, CR Compressors LLC, over the next 18 months. The plant was formerly … More »
Closing of Toyota's Freemont Plant Ripple Effect: 38,000 Cal Workers to lose jobs
Post Date: 2010-02-18 18:23:11 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Fremont NUMMI plant closure to have ripple effect Tim Daly 7 days ago TRACY, CA - When an East Bay auto plant closes at the end of March, the impact will go well beyond the Bay Area. It could mean a loss of about 3,000 jobs in San Joaquin County as well. That's because an estimated eight businesses in the county make parts that are delivered to NUMMI - the Toyota-General Motors plant - in Fremont. "That's 3,000 (more) unemployed countywide. We already have 51,000 (unemployed). This compounds the problem and pushes it up over 19 percent unemployed countywide," said Mike Locke with San Joaquin Partnership, a group that promotes local business. NUMMI's closure means ...
Casino Monte Lago to close March 14th, (170 jobs lost)
Post Date: 2010-02-18 17:49:35 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Casino MonteLago at Lake Las Vegas to close next month Image Mona Shield Payne / Special to the Sun Casino MonteLago at Lake Las Vegas. By Amanda Finnegan (contact) Published Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010 | 12:54 p.m. Updated Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010 | 3:12 p.m. Casino Montelago Map data ©2010 Google - Terms of Use Related stories * Closing of Ritz-Carlton at Lake Las Vegas raises concerns of ripple effect (2-10-2009) * Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas to close in May (2-8-2010) * Creditors challenge Lake Las Vegas bankruptcy plan (10-6-2009) * Judge denies request to dismiss Lake Las Vegas case (10-2-2009) Casino MonteLago at Lake Las Vegas will close at midnight March 14, the casino owner ...
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