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Continental to lay off 600 more reservation agents
Post Date: 2010-02-22 17:02:37 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Continental to lay off 600 more reservation agents The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area - by Christine Hall Houston Business Journal Enter words from the security image above: Get new image | Image verificationAudio verification | reCAPTCHA™ View Larger Related News * Honorees focus on breaking down cultural barriers to benefit others * Facebook COO nominated to Disney board * Hudak invests in companies he finds interesting * Continental Airlines service workers vote to join Teamsters * Continental OnePass members can donate miles to Haiti relief Continental Airlines Inc. confirmed Monday that it will be laying off another 600 reservation agents as travelers continue to ...
Superman's debut comic sells for $1M
Post Date: 2010-02-22 14:44:06 by Fred Mertz
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NEW YORK – A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for $1 million, smashing a record set just last year. The issue sold Monday morning is a 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1, widely considered the Holy Grail of comic books. It features Superman lifting a car on its cover and originally cost 10 cents. It was sold by a private seller to a private buyer, neither of whom released their names. The sale was conducted by the auction site ComicConnect.com. The previous comic book record was set last year when $317,000 was paid for the same Action Comics No. 1 issue. This copy fetched a much higher price because it's in better condition.
Consol Energy lay offs take effect today (157 layoffs)
Post Date: 2010-02-22 13:52:53 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Consol Layoffs Begin in Clay County Posted Monday, February 22, 2010 ; 12:08 PM | View Comments | Post Comment Updated Monday, February 22, 2010; 12:39 PM In Clay County, 157 workers are out of a job beginning Monday. Story by Sarah Lieu Email | Bio | Other Stories by Sarah Lieu CLAY -- Effective Monday, 157 workers at Consol Energy's Fola Surface Mine in Clay County are out of a job. The layoffs are part of the Pittsburgh-based company's restructuring plan. Originally, the company thought it would have to lay off nearly 500 workers at its plant outside of Bickmore in Clay county due to a ruling by Federal Judge Chuck Chambers. Environmental groups challenged the permit due ...
279 Jersey City Employees Axed
Post Date: 2010-02-22 13:48:31 by Nebuchadnezzar
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279 city employees axed Last day this Friday; more layoffs considered by Ricardo Kaulessar Reporter Staff Writer City Hall is going ahead with plans to lay off approximately 279 seasonal and provisional employees by the end of this month, officials said. The city’s $507 million budget contains a $42 million deficit. Property taxes rose to 25 per cent this quarter. City spokesperson Jennifer Morrill said that 242 seasonal, 35 provisional, and two mayoral aides will be terminated from their positions this Friday, Feb. 26. Morrill said the bulk of the layoffs will be employees of the city’s Recreation Department. Layoff notices started going out on Tuesday. According to ...
Brief Cases: Chop house closes after short duration
Post Date: 2010-02-22 13:47:27 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Brief Cases: Chop house closes after short duration Athens Banner-Herald Another Athens restaurant has fallen victim to the economy. 300_advertisement_header.gif Southeastern Chop House, which Trinidad Faragoza III opened last summer in the historic Georgian Hotel building on East Washington Street, closed Monday. Faragoza did not return a phone call seeking details about the closing. Warren Southall, who leased the commercial space to Southeastern Chop House, said he is talking with someone else about the possibility of opening a restaurant there and hopes he might have the space filled in three to six months. Marvel Fence opens for installation, repair Partners Matt Marvel and ...
Santa Monica/Malibu School District votes to fire 92
Post Date: 2010-02-22 13:46:24 by Nebuchadnezzar
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February 20, 2010 SMMUSD HDQTRS — As many as 92 employees could be laid off from the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District this year under a plan approved Thursday by the Board of Education. The layoffs would include classroom teachers, nurses and counselors and would save the district about $7.3 million. It's possible, though, fewer employees ultimately will lose their jobs. Under state law, the district has to issue pink slips by March 15, well before next year's budget is finalized. Superintendent Tim Cuneo said if SMMUSD receives more money than expected from Sacramento, which contributes 71 percent of the local school system's revenue, or if the ...
Stephens Supply cuts back (From 55 employees to 15)
Post Date: 2010-02-22 13:44:41 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Stephens Supply cuts back In Fuquay-Varina, a Broad Street institution is scaling back its operation as the economy takes its toll on yet another local business. Stephens Supply Co. will shut down two of its three divisions today. The company has been operating for 75 years and began as a hardware and feed store, said CEO Wayne Carver. Over the years, it added building supplies in a couple of warehouses behind the store and a lighting division across the street. After today, only the hardware store - which is now an ACE and is at 405 Broad St. - will remain. "We're going back to our roots," Carver said. "There's just not a lot of building activity right ...
Sen. John McCain: I was misled on bailout
Post Date: 2010-02-22 13:40:27 by mininggold
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Sen. John McCain: I was misled on bailout Under growing pressure from conservatives and "tea party" activists, Sen. John McCain of Arizona is having to defend his record of supporting the government's massive bailout of the financial system. In response to criticism from opponents seeking to defeat him in the Aug. 24 Republican primary, the four-term senator says he was misled by then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. McCain said the pair assured him that the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program would focus on what was seen as the cause of the financial crisis, the housing meltdown. "Obviously, that didn't ...
Tim Pawlenty Praises President Bush
Post Date: 2010-02-22 13:27:31 by dont eat that
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Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, a possible GOP presidential candidate, defends President Bush on The Brody File. I spoke one on one with Pawlenty at the CPAC event. Remember, Mitt Romney also praised President Bush during CPAC. Pawlenty agrees with Romney. Governor Tim Pawlenty: “I absolutely agree with those comments. (Mitt Romney’s comments praising President Bush) I think President Bush was a leader with strong convictions and he proposed big changes in entitlement programs and domestic programs. Unfortunately the Congress, including for a period of time the Republican Congress didn’t adopt those approaches. He’s also of course going to be defined by Iraq and the ...
Daughter Says Pilot In Texas IRS Crash Was A Hero
Post Date: 2010-02-22 12:24:06 by Brian S
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(02-22) 06:25 PST Austin, Texas (AP) -- The daughter of a man who crashed his small plane into a building housing offices of the Internal Revenue Service called her father a hero for his anti-government views but said his actions, which killed an IRS employee, were Joe Stack's adult daughter, Samantha Bell, spoke to ABC's "Good Morning America" from her home in Norway. Asked during a phone interview broadcast Monday if she considered her father a hero, she said: "Yes. Because now maybe people will listen." Authorities say Stack, 53, targeted the IRS office building in Austin on Thursday, killing employee Vernon Hunter and himself, after posting a ranting ...
3 NYC Police Officers Acquitted In Sodomy Case
Post Date: 2010-02-22 12:22:22 by Brian S
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NEW YORK -- A New York City police officer accused of a sodomy attack on a drug suspect in a subway station was acquitted Monday along with two other officers who had been accused of covering it up. Officer Richard Kern had faced as many as 25 years in prison if convicted of aggravated sexual abuse. Officers Andrew Morales and Alex Cruz could have faced up to four years in prison on charges of hindering prosecution. "I feel great. I'm glad the system works," Kern said outside court. "It's been a long road and it's finally over, thank God." "It was very hard sitting there listening to all the lies," Morales said. Cruz did not speak to reporters. ...
Homeland Chief: Domestic Extremism Is Top Concern
Post Date: 2010-02-22 12:03:51 by Brian S
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Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 | 12:28 a.m. Americans who turn to terrorism and plot against the U.S. are now as big a concern as international terrorists, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday. The government is just starting to confront this reality and does not have a good handle on how to prevent someone from becoming a violent extremist, she said. In the last year, Napolitano said, she's witnessed a movement from international extremism to domestic extremism _ cases in which Americans radicalized and decided to plot attacks against the country. "What really is it that draws a young person being raised in the United States to want to go and be at a camp in Yemen ...
Republicans Voting Against Stimulus Asked Obama for Help Getting Stimulus
Post Date: 2010-02-22 11:59:52 by Brian S
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Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Alabama Republicans Jo Bonner and Robert Aderholt took to the U.S. House floor in July, denouncing the Obama administration’s stimulus plan for failing to boost employment. “Where are the jobs?” each of them asked. Over the next three months, Bonner and Aderholt tried at least five times to steer stimulus-funded transportation grants to Alabama on grounds that the projects would help create thousands of jobs. They joined more than 100 congressional Republicans and several Democrats who, after voting against the stimulus bill, wrote Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood seeking money from $1.5 billion the plan set aside for local road, bridge, rail and ...
Obama Youth Rapes Handicapped Woman in Broad Daylight
Post Date: 2010-02-22 11:15:09 by dont eat that
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A 26-year-old woman who was raped in broad daylight on a West Toledo street spoke out yesterday, saying that the 15-year-old boy charged with the crime should be tried as an adult. "He knows better and he did a heinous act," the woman told The Blade in an exclusive interview. "This is an adult crime and he knows better than to do it. He's old enough to. If you do an adult crime, you should do adult time," she said. Anferney Fontenet, 15, of 1656 Shady Drive, was charged with juvenile delinquency in connection with rape and robbery. The teenage suspect confessed when he was arrested about 12 hours after the crime, Toledo Police Sgt. Sam Harris said. The Blade ...
President Obama Polls Below 50% in Every Poll
Post Date: 2010-02-22 10:09:56 by dont eat that
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Gallup 2/18 - 2/20 48
Rasmussen Reports 2/18 - 2/20 45
Newsweek 2/17 - 2/18 48
CNN/Opinion Research 2/12 - 2/15 49
CBS News/NY Times 2/5 - 2/10 46
Pew Research 2/3 - 2/9 49
Quinnipiac 2/2 - 2/8 45
Democracy Corps 2/2 - 2/4 47
FOX News 2/2 - 2/3 46
Marist 2/1 - 2/3 44
Republicans Lead Democrats by Nine in Generic Ballot
Post Date: 2010-02-22 09:37:19 by dont eat that
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Republican candidates lead Democrats by nine points in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot. The new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 45% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 36% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. Voter support for GOP congressional candidates is up one point from last week, while support for Democrats held steady.
Layoffs loom for U.S. teachers (The Obama Depression)
Post Date: 2010-02-22 09:14:20 by dont eat that
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Many teachers and educators across the United States are at risk of losing their jobs in the next few months, the nation’s education secretary told a meeting of the National Governors Association on Sunday.
Boeing sends more than 1,000 layoff notices (The Obama Depression)
Post Date: 2010-02-22 09:11:59 by dont eat that
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The layoffs announced Friday are part of the 10,000 job cuts Boeing originally targeted for 2009. Late last year it said it would meet and then exceed that goal of 10,000 job cuts during 2010
Layoffs and cuts hammer transit (The Obama Depression)
Post Date: 2010-02-22 09:08:22 by dont eat that
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Publicly, most local transit officials applaud the billions of dollars in federal stimulus money that have gone to high-speed rail. Privately, they question the government's transit priorities in the current recession. As federal and state investment in high-speed rail ramps up, local bus and light-rail systems are retrenching, cutting service and laying off workers. The public has signaled it wants high-speed rail, and elected officials are responding accordingly. But as the country invests in the future, it cannot ignore the present, specifically the dire situation facing local transit. Sacramento Regional Transit is a case study of the crisis. Think about no buses or light rail in ...
If Yinz Ain't Watchin' USA v Canada Shame On Yinz For 6 Weeks
Post Date: 2010-02-21 21:05:52 by war
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I'm just sayin'...
Joy of six (figures): 738 NYC teachers getting $100G+ pensions (Why our nation doesn't work: Union workers feeding at the trough)
Post Date: 2010-02-21 16:31:39 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Joy of six (figures): 738 NYC teachers getting $100G+ pensions NY Post ^ | 2/21/10 | SUSAN EDELMAN and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN They get an "A" in reading, writing -- and retirement. There are 738 educators collecting city pensions more than $100,000 -- and three make more than $200,000, records show. The $100,000-plus club makes up 1 percent of about 70,000 retirees in the city Teachers Retirement System, which doled out $3.8 billion in benefits in 2009. It's the costliest of the five pension systems that threaten to suck the city dry. "All the pension funds are ticking time bombs," said E.J. McMahon, a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute think tank. And the ...
Federal deficit at $430.69 billion through January (Revenue down 10.4%)
Post Date: 2010-02-20 23:55:25 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Federal deficit at $430.69 billion through January By MARTIN CRUTSINGER (AP) – 3 days ago WASHINGTON — The federal deficit through the first four months of the budget year is running at a record-breaking pace even though the deficit in January was slightly smaller than expected. The massive tide of red ink reflects the continued fallout from a deep recession and a severe financial crisis. It highlights the formidable challenges President Barack Obama will face in trying to get the deficit down to more manageable levels. The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the deficit for January totaled $42.63 billion. That left the total of red ink so far this budget year at $430.69 ...
Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs
Post Date: 2010-02-20 21:44:22 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs New York Times ^ | February 20, 2010 | PETER S. GOODMAN BUENA PARK, Calif. — Even as the American economy shows tentative signs of a rebound, the human toll of the recession continues to mount, with millions of Americans remaining out of work, out of savings and nearing the end of their unemployment benefits. Economists fear that the nascent recovery will leave more people behind than in past recessions, failing to create jobs in sufficient numbers to absorb the record-setting ranks of the long-term unemployed. Call them the new poor: people long accustomed to the comforts of middle-class life who are now relying on public assistance ...
Ron Paul Wins Presidential Straw Poll At CPAC [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-02-20 19:12:43 by Brian S
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(CNN) -- U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, on Saturday won a straw poll for president on the final day of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. He got 31 percent of the vote. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who won the straw poll the past three years, was second with 22 percent and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin with 7 percent. The straw poll provides an early window into who conservative activists believe should be the next GOP nominee. The three-day meeting Saturday that has featured speeches by Republican leaders, training sessions for local political activists and a renewed purpose to stand firm behind their principles heading into the midterm ...
Medicare Private Plans Jump 14% (Thanks Obungler!)
Post Date: 2010-02-20 19:00:20 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Premiums jump 14 percent on Medicare private plans AP By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press Writer Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar, Associated Press Writer – Fri Feb 19, 2:50 pm ET WASHINGTON – Millions of seniors who signed up for popular private health plans through Medicare are facing sharp premium increases this year — another sign that spiraling costs are a problem even for those with solid insurance. A study released Friday by a major consulting firm found that premiums for Medicare Advantage plans offering medical and prescription drug coverage jumped 14.2 percent on average in 2010, after an increase of only 5.2 percent the previous year. Some 8.5 million elderly ...
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