Archive for 'Business'
President Obama, the Auto Dealer Layoff King
By Jim Geraghty | May 14, 2012 7:33 A.M. The Obama campaign has decided that this week’s Bright Shiny ObjectTM will be the folks laid off while Mitt Romney was running Bain Capital. Because President Obama has [...]
US phone subscribers hang up on contracts
By PETER SVENSSON | Associated Press – 18 mins ago NEW ORLEANS (AP) — U.S. consumers have had their fill of expensive, contract-based phone plans. Figures from T-Mobile USA on Thursday, added to earlier reports from [...]
Investors fret after Greek, French elections
By Richard Hubbard | Reuters – 1 hour 1 minute ago LONDON (Reuters) – Greek and French election results rattled investors on Monday by undermining confidence in the region’s plans to cut spending and tackle its [...]
New York Subway Wireless Service Expands to Include Verizon
By Alex Sherman | Bloomberg | May 3, 2012 2:01 PM ET Wireless service in New York’s subway stations will be extended to Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) and other partners of Boingo Wireless Inc. [...]
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Family says [La Fisherman] restaurant locked them inside over tip refusal
Jennifer Bauer, Reporter | KPRC-TV | Published On: May 01 2012 10:52:56 PM CDT Police called over restaurant tipping policy Jasmine Marks said she was trying to enjoy dinner recently with several friends at La Fisherman, [...]
Political slowdown in Corzine probe?
By Charles Gasparino | Posted: 11:37 PM, April 29, 2012 The implosion of MF Global appears to be the single most investigated event in recent Wall Street history. The FBI, two US attorneys, the Securities and Exchange [...]
30 percent of US workers don’t get enough sleep
Published April 27, 2012 | MyHealthNewsDaily Nearly a third of workers in the U.S. aren’t getting enough sleep, according to a new government report. Overall, 30 percent of employed U.S. adults reported getting less than six [...]
VIDEO: EPA Official Compares Agency Enforcement to Roman Crucifixions
Lachlan Markay | Heritage Blog | April 25, 2012 at 2:54 pm A video surfaced on Wednesday showing a regional administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency comparing his agency’s philosophy with respect to regulation of oil and [...]
1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed
By HOPE YEN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work. A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates [...]
Labor union sues Indiana, calls working alongside nonunion employees ‘slavery’
By David Martosko | Published: 1:00 AM 04/22/2012 In a lawsuit against three Indiana government officials, a labor union alleged on Wednesday that its constitutional rights under the Thirteenth Amendment — which outlawed “slavery” and “involuntary [...]
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