Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
California: In San Jose, integrated circuit maker Maxim Integrated Product intends to shutdown by March, 150 jobs lost! In Chowchilla, Affinia Brake Parts issued a layoff WARN saying 43 people will become jobless in February. AT&T issued a layoff WARN saying 102 people in San Ramon […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Alabama: British empire based British Petroleum (BP) sold its Decatur ops to a Thailand based company called Indorama. The new owner claims they will not eliminate any of the 444 jobs at the plant (famous last words?).
California: More proof high-tech is not recession resistant, San Francisco based […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of economic related events in The Gem State of Idaho, Gregorian year 2015.
JANUARY: An independent investigation revealed that recently re-‘elected’ Pocatello mayor Brian Blad farmed out city road crews to other cities, for free and without permission of the city council (as required by law). The cost to Pocatello taxpayers is at least […] Continue Reading…
08 January 2016 (14:50 UTC-07 Tango 01)/ 18 Dey 1394/27 Rabi’a’-Awwal 1437/29 Ding-Chou 4713
“Shots fired! … I’m bleeding heavily! I’m bleeding. Get us another unit out here!”-Philadelphia cop shot and wounded with a stolen cop gun
The anti-2nd Amendment laws of Pennsylvania failed to stop a stolen taxpayer funded police gun from winding up in […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Arizona: In Hereford, after almost 30 years The Mesquite Tree restaurant shutdown.
California: More proof the internet is not recession resistant; Sunnyvale based Yahoo eliminating more than 1-thousand jobs starting as soon as the end of this month! In-side sources say it’s because a three year ‘turnaround’ plan […] Continue Reading…
07 January 2016 (02:33 UTC-07 Tango 01)/ 17 Dey 1394/26 Rabi’a’-Awwal 1437/28 Ding-Chou 4713
A young mutant Mountain Lion was killed near Weston, Idaho. It has a jawbone with fully developed teeth growing out of its forehead. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game made the pics available to the public.
The hunter who shot the cougar says […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Alabama: In Selma, the Winn-Dixie grocery store shutting down in February, apparently due to low sales. Local loyal customers are pissed off, Gracie Bennett exclaimed “I don`t want to hear that! I won`t like that at all! It is just an inconvenience.” referring to the long drive she’ll have to make […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Career Trends used data from the U.S. Census Bureau to create their top ten list of U.S. industries destroying U.S. jobs: Nondurable Goods makers, Durable Goods makers, Transportation-warehousing-utilities, Mining-Logging, Real Estate (what housing market recovery?), Retail, Hotel-Food Service, Business (legal, medical, etc) Service, Construction, and the […] Continue Reading…
05 January 2016 (16:13 UTC-07 Tango 01) 15 Dey 1394/24 Rabi’a’-Awwal 1437/26 Ding-Chou 4713
The salmon industry in the South American country of Chile is in trouble due to crashing market prices for farmed salmon. Five of Chile’s salmon farms say lost the equivalent of $153-million USD in the first nine months of 2015!
Now salmon farms are drastically […] Continue Reading…
The President’s Actions to Reduce Gun Violence
So President Obama is taking executive action to reduce gun violence. Here’s what his actions are designed to do:
Keep guns out of the wrong hands through background checks
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is making clear that it doesn’t matter where you conduct your business—from […] Continue Reading…