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Union approval low, but more still side with labor over gov’t

By doris | Published: February 18, 2011

Full Story at FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com Carrie Dann writes:With tens of thousands of public sector workers jamming the halls of the Wisconsin statehouse – and similar labor battles brewing in Ohio and Michigan – Republican governors and Americans around the country are contemplating the state of the unions. The fracas in Madison has emphasized the divide between [...]

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Ford to hire 7,000 workers

By doris | Published: January 10, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Ford Motor announced Monday it will add 7,000 new hourly and salaried jobs in the United States by the end of 2012. The announcement, made on the opening day of the Detroit auto show, said Ford (F, Fortune 500) is adding nearly 4,000 hourly jobs at several [...]

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Starbucks unveils a new logo

By doris | Published: January 5, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Starbucks Corp. debuted a logo Wednesday that brings the iconic green Siren out of the circle and drops the words “Starbucks Coffee.” Just a few hours later, the backlash against the change started building on both Starbucks’ website and other social media platforms such as Facebook.

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Faces of the Rodeo: The man who provides the bulls and bucking horses

By doris | Published: December 8, 2010

Full Story at Photoblog.msnbc.msn.com Bob Harkins writes: LAS VEGAS – The stern eyes of the security guard brightened as he saw the thin, gray-haired man hop out of his pickup truck and approach the stock pens. The guard’s no-nonsense demeanor evaporated as he rushed to shake the man’s hand, thanking him for all he had [...]

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Giant Noah’s Ark likely landing in Kentucky

By doris | Published: December 1, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com FRANKFORT, Ky. — A huge replica of Noah’s Ark and an 800-acre creationist theme park reportedly are coming to Grant County, Ky., according to NBC station WLEX. Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear and Answers in Genesis, builders of the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., are expected to unveil plans Wednesday for the [...]

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JFK’s Secret Service agents reflect on loss of a president

By doris | Published: November 24, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Arlington, Virginia (CNN) — After mostly avoiding the spotlight for decades, many of the former U.S. Secret Service agents who were assigned to protect President John F. Kennedy are now offering their accounts of the day he was assassinated, 47 years ago Monday. After the first shot hit the president, former [...]

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U.S. and S. Korea fail to resolve free-trade pact

By doris | Published: November 11, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com SEOUL, South Korea — The United States and South Korea failed on Thursday to revive a stalled free trade agreement, dealing a blow to both countries’ leaders and putting a brake on bilateral trade. President Barack Obama and South Korea’s Lee Myung-bak said negotiators would continue talks to address U.S. concerns [...]

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Vietnam partners with Japan to build nuke plant

By doris | Published: October 31, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com HANOI — Vietnam has chosen to partner with Japan in the construction of a nuclear power plant and in mining rare earth minerals in the southeast Asian country, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan told reporters on Sunday. “I understand that becoming partners in these two issues means that the two countries [...]

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Man to give $1,000 for each jobless worker hired

By doris | Published: October 20, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com NEWTOWN, Pa. — A suburban Philadelphia philanthropist who believes charity is a powerful incentive thinks he can help get Americans back to work one donation at a time. Gene Epstein, 71, is promoting a $250,000 effort called Hire Just One, with plans to make $1,000 donations to charity in the name [...]

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Chile list says which miners should go first, last

By doris | Published: October 8, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — Before 33 trapped Chilean miners can begin their passage to the outside world, still more people will join them down below to make their journey as smooth as it can be. These men — an elite group of three paramedics with the Chilean navy’s special forces [...]

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Huge solar plant to bring green jobs to Ohio

By doris | Published: October 7, 2010

Full Story at blogs.CNN.com. A huge solar power plant will be built on a former coal strip mine in Ohio, creating 300 permanent “green” manufacturing jobs and 300 construction jobs, Gov. Ted Strickland announced Tuesday. New Harvest Ventures and Agile Energy will develop the 49.9-megawatt project, and American Electric Power has agreed to negotiate a [...]

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Army’s largest base reeling from four apparent suicides in one weekend

By doris | Published: September 30, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Four soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas died over the week. In all four cases, it appears the soldiers, all decorated veterans from the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, took their own lives, according to Christopher Haug, a Fort Hood spokesman. If confirmed as suicides, it would be on top [...]

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Number of illegal immigrants in U.S. declining

By doris | Published: September 2, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com WASHINGTON — The number of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. has dropped for the first time in two decades — decreasing by 8 percent as the sour economy dried up jobs and increased enforcement made it harder to sneak across the border with Mexico, a new study finds. Much of [...]

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Utah moves to fire 2 over immigrants data list

By doris | Published: July 21, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The Utah Department of Workforce Services has moved to fire two employees believed to have created and distributed a list containing personal information of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants, officials said Tuesday. The agency terminated a temporary worker and issued an “intent to terminate employment” notice to the other, spokesman [...]

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Gas rig sinks of coast of Venezuela, government says

By doris | Published: May 14, 2010

Full Story atnews.blogs.cnn.com This company had valves that cut the gas off.  Why did BP not have the same. What did they want for oil prices to go up again and out of reach for the poor people. This company sounds like the know what they are doing. Venezuelan government officials said Thursday they are [...]

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Air travel paralyzed as volcanic ash cloud lingers

By doris | Published: April 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com London, England (CNN) — European countries extended their airspace restrictions on Saturday, choking international air travel and stranding thousands of passengers, as an Icelandic volcano continued to spew ash into the atmosphere. Airspace over the United Kingdom and Belgium will be closed until Saturday night, according to the British air traffic [...]

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Unemployment on the rise for veterans of current wars

By doris | Published: April 4, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com Washington (CNN) — The unemployment rate for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars reached 14.7 percent in March, according to the latest government statistics. The number of unemployed veterans increased to more than 250,000, up about 40,000 over the previous month’s figures, according to the Department of Labor Statistics. Veterans groups [...]

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Karzai calls Clinton amid US criticism

By doris | Published: April 3, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Afghan President Hamid Karzai called Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday after the Obama administration expressed dismay at his assertion a day earlier that the international community was to blame for the controversy over last year’s disputed Afghan election. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Karzai used [...]

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Suspect kills self in Ohio State shooting, police say

By doris | Published: March 10, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com CNN) — A man apparently angry over a poor performance evaluation entered an Ohio State University maintenance building early Tuesday and opened fire, killing a manager before turning the gun on himself, police said. Larry Wallington, 48, a building services manager at the OSU Maintenance Building, was pronounced dead at the [...]

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G.M. and Ford Channel Toyota to Beat Toyota

By doris | Published: March 7, 2010

Full Story at NYTimes.com JOSH SMITH is a large man with a shaved head, a goatee and a look in his eyes that can only be described as stoked. And he is never more stoked than when he talks about his job, one of the strangest at the General Motors Proving Grounds, here in this [...]

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