CFOs Plan Modest Financial Hiring in First Quarter; Survey Finds Most Active Hiring Projected at Largest Companies (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) The job market in accounting and finance is holding steady, suggests a new survey. Nine percent of chief financial officers interviewed plan to add full-time employees and 8 percent expect to decrease the size of their staff, according to the Robert Half International Financial Hiring Index. |
$300,000 sculpture destroyed en route to Art Miami show (Miami Herald) Carole Feuerman's artwork, Survival of Serena, is a haunting, vivid sculpture of a woman clinging for dear life to an inner tube. But Survival of Serena, which traveled to Venice and Beijing, did not survive the trip to Miami. |
Surge strains charity coffers (Greeley Tribune) Overwhelming turnout at recent Weld County charitable events may be a microcosmic signal of America's worsening economy. |
Service helps athletes land scholarships (Park Record) Anyone navigating the waters of getting a kid into college knows its challenges. Add in trying to get an athletic scholarship and as Buster Schwab |
Questions/Answers (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin) Questions and answers on Daily Bulletin stories from readers like you. Nov. 19 commemorated the second anniversary of the Pomona gang-related drive-by murder of innocent 3-year-old Ethan Esparza. |
Foreign Civilian Contractors Disappearing (Strategy Page) November 25, 2008: The United States is rapidly replacing foreign contractors in Iraq with Iraqis. Currently, about half the 163,000 civilian contractors there are locals. Some 28,000 are Americans, with the rest coming from dozens of different countries. |
Washing toys and completing paperwork; it's all in the name of dotting i's, crossing the t's (The Daily Record) Photo By Joel Troyer Requirements for regularly updated paperwork apply to anyone who works with children, including volunteers, says Laurel Etzwiler, who supervises seven Head Start centers as program administrator for Kno-Ho-Co Ashland Head Start. |
Former Pilots' Union Chief Under Consideration to Lead FAA (Washington Post) Labor leaders are pushing for Duane E. Woerth, a former pilots' union president who played an important role in aviation issues in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks, to lead the Federal Aviation Administration under President-elect Barack Obama. |
Texas adds 23,000 jobs in October (Dallas Morning News) The U.S. economy has been losing jobs all year, but Texas employers added 23,000 jobs in October, the Texas Workforce Commission said Friday. |
Nassau County Programs For Seniors (Garden City News) November: Tax Specialists Needed to Assist With Tax Preparation for Seniors and Low-Income Residents. Training will start soon for volunteers to assist with income tax preparation and application for Earned Income Tax Credit. |