15 August 2015 (10:37 UTC-07 Tango 01)/24 Mordad 1394/29 Shawwal 1436/02 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713
Fast winds have pushed the smoke from the dozens of wildfires burning across drought stricken Idaho into the eastern part of The Gem State. Just in time for the arrival of 10 Tanker number 910, dispatched to Pocatello Regional Airport […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: Chevron laid off another 56 people in San Joaquin Valley, that’s on top of the 1-thousand 2-hundred people laid off since the end of 2014!
Connecticut: ObamaCare forced Colorado based AxisPoint Health to issue a WARN saying 45 people in Wallingford will become jobless in September. College student […] Continue Reading…
13 August 2015 (08:30 UTC-07 Tango 01)/22 Mordad 1394/27 Shawwal 1436/29 Jia-Shen 4713
Hoku-Gate, PaveGate now Amy’s-Gate! It’s been revealed that the Mormon dominated Bannock County administrators were under investigation by the Idaho Tax Commission over massive local tax breaks given to California based frozen veggie food maker Amy’s Kitchen.
At the end of 2014 Amy’s Kitchen […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Warren Buffett co-owned Kraft-Heinz announced it will eliminate another 2-thousand 5-hundred jobs in Canada and United States! Apparently most of the new layoffs will affect corporate level employees in Illinois and Pennsylvania, and jobs considered redundant as a result of the merger between Kraft and Heinz.
More […] Continue Reading…
Sears Holdings claims they are hiring 1-hundred people, but not for any Kmart or Sears retail stores. It’s for a Sears call center in Alabama. The expectation is that as Lampert shuts down more and more brick-n-mortar stores shoppers will be forced to buy their crap from Sears over the internet.
Sears Holdings revealed yet another […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
More proof the internet is not recession proof: New York and California based StumbleUpon is out of money and laying off 70 of its 1-hundred employees! The problem with major internet operations is that they are 100% debt financed, and rarely do they make enough money from […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: In Redlands, after ten years Treasures Antiques shutdown. Albertsons-Safeway issued yet another layoff WARN for Pleasanton, this time 37 people to be unemployed in September. ObamaCare forcing nursing home operator Hank Fisher Properties to layoff 242 people between September and December! ObamaCare forced Abbott Vascular to layoff 244 […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: In San Jose, after ten years “ultra lounge” Fahrenheit shutdown. The operator blames the property owner for jacking up the rent, saying the cost to do business in San Jose is “on a more rapid upswing”.
Kentucky: In Louisville, after five years Hillbilly Tea shutdown without warning.
Louisiana: After promising […] Continue Reading…
09 August 2015 (04:04 UTC-07 Tango 01)/18 Mordad 1394/23 Shawwal 1436/25 Jia-Shen 4713
“…discretion has been exercised to favor the hospital where the physician was employed. After St. Luke’s purchased five specialty practices, ‘their business at Saint Alphonsus Boise dropped dramatically…the amount of business that they did at St. Luke’s facilities increased dramatically.'”- B. Lynn […] Continue Reading…
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2014 Chubbuck Days Car Show
For kit builders: REVELL 1937 FORD PICKUP, OR WHY MODEL ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE WRONG!