Iavaroni needs a chance for Grizzlies' youth to mature (The Sporting News via Yahoo! News)
ATLANTA -- Memphis coach Marc Iavaroni wasn't putting much stock into the notion of a "vote of confidence." The struggling Grizzlies had lost six straight (which became seven after losing to the Hawks here Wednesday), including an especially tough loss to what had been the one-win Thunder in Memphis. General manager Chris Wallace told the Memphis Commercial Appeal that the front office is ... |
Embattled Browns GM wants chance to finish job (CBS Sportsline)
His future in doubt, Cleveland Browns general manager Phil Savage is moving ahead with plans for 2009 without knowing if he'll be around to see them through. |
No tax hike planned in Robinson, but manager to get assistant (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
There are two noteworthy aspects to Robinson's proposed 2009 budget -- it does not include a tax increase, but it does include money for an assistant manager. |
Farmer City manager pleased with first year on job (The Pantagraph)
FARMER CITY — City Manager Trent Smith likes the progress the town has made in his first year on the job, pointing to a health clinic coming to town, a donated pavilion at Weedman Park, and purchase of a truck that will allow for more regular clearing of sewer lines. |
Jobless aid spread thin in Colo. (Denver Post)
Rising job losses are starting to test a key safety net for unemployed workers in the state. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment oversees a network of 52 workforce centers and another 18 satellite centers spread across the state. |
Pratt’s salaried cuts deeper than those at Hamilton Sundstrand (Journal Inquirer)
The wave of job cuts that swept 350 white collar workers from Pratt & Whitney’s payroll on Wednesday was far deeper than a much smaller layoff less than a month ago at corporate sibling Hamilton Sundstrand, where only 11 employees lost their jobs. |
Media Monkey: Why redundancy's 'like a birthday' (Guardian Unlimited)
Media Monkey: Former Daily Telegraph literary editor reveals the positive sides to losing your job |
Consensus is that growth here will take a hiatus and then resume (Whitefish Pilot)
While most people in the U.S. were sitting at tables loaded with turkey, yams and pumpkin pies on Thanksgiving Day, Whitefish's new city manager was driving here from Georgetown, Colo., pulling a small U-Haul trailer behind him. |
Elm Street program still a work in progress for Carlisle (The Sentinel)
It could be months before Carlisle has a state-funded program in place to revitalize residential neighborhoods around its downtown commercial core. |
Point-counterpoint: Why’s the city giving tax benefits to MIT? (Cambridge Chronicle & Cambridge Tab)
Elm Street resident Gerald Bergman asks, "In the midst of the ongoing economic crisis facing Cambridge families, who would ever believe that the Cambridge City Council would give a $1 million property tax benefit to MIT?" Cambridge City Manager Bob Healy says, “I don’t think it calculates that way." |
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