Job Market Tightens as Layoffs Spread (Flathead Beacon) Elaine Badley has worked at Semitool for the past eight years. Now, following her Nov. 10 layoff along with 99 other employees, she enters what she calls the “world of the unknown.” Indeed, with a shortage in federal funding for displaced workers’ programs and a destabilized job market, the Flathead is a land of uncertainty for those looking for work. And there are a lot of people looking for ... |
Career seminar in Wallaceburg Thursday (Wallaceburg Courier Press) It's a tough job market in Chatham-Kent but there is help for residents considering a new career. Chatham-Kent's Employment Resource Centres are offering a free [...] |
Bugs in the booze? Find out where (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Updated restaurant inspection database |
The 2008 Forward 50 Picks "Rahmbo," Obama's New Chief, Edgy Comedian and Olympic Swimmer Dara Torres (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) The Forward, American Jewry's most influential Jewish newspaper, today announced its annual and much-anticipated "FORWARD 50" list which provides a snapshot of the important Jewish stories of the year, and the people who made those stories. |
Study: Bremerton Teacher Salaries Not Up to Par (The Kitsap Sun) Teachers are among the best-paid college-educated workers in many parts of Washington, but educators in the Kitsap, Kennewick, and Seattle labor markets are not keeping up with people in other occupations, a new analysis of Washington wages shows. |
Media All-Stars 2008 (Mediaweek) These are undeniably challenging times for media. Budgets and staffs are being cut, uncertainty lingers in the background of many decisions and executives keep trying to identify the bottom of the downturn. Such fear often leads to sticking with the tried and true. And for some, that works. |
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Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz) Over the past few weeks I've been a good boy. I've placed everything having to do with the real Barack Obama into a futures file and spent my time on the far grimmer matter of the real John McCain and Sarah Palin. |
Mayor, former mayor duel in Ely; 6 seek 3 council seats (Mesabi Daily News) ELY — Incumbent Ely Mayor Chuck Novak and Roger Skraba, a former Ely mayor and councilor, are squaring off in a race for a two-year mayoral seat. |
11 vying for three seats on Selma City Council (Selma Enterprise) Eleven candidates are vying for three seats on the Selma City Council. The candidates are: Gary Alexander, Jim Avalos, Dennis Lujan, Mike Melvin, John Mendoza, Sandi Niswander, George Rodriguez, Danny Serimian, Johnny Smith, Joseph Tiger and Herbert Wingfield. |