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It’s worse than your leaders will admit to: U.S. retail/banking/service sector collapse, August 2018

Incomplete list of U.S. retail/banking/service sector job loss WARNings and store shutdowns made or announced in August 2018:

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

MarketWatch: Chief executives who are paid less than their peers are four times more likely to lay off their employees

BoundingIntoComics: Comic Stores Nationwide Close Up

CALIFORNIA: Wells Fargo layoffs in Rancho Cordova may be harbinger for mortgage industry

Deluxe Entertainment lays off 46 in Burbank

SeaWorld cuts 125 jobs

Target plans to close San Bernardino store (108 jobs gone according to WARN)

BMA Car Wash issued a shutdown WARN for their Canoga Park location, 47 jobs gone by the end of September.  Hotel/resort manager Pyramid Petaluma Management issued a layoff WARN for its ops in Petaluma, 89 jobs gone by the end of September.  Law company Archer Norris shutting down, at least 106 jobs gone by mid October! Global Cash Card eliminating 228 jobs in Irvine by mid-October!  Banc of California shutting down locations in Santa Ana and Whittier.  Airport services contractor Menzies Aviation eliminating 172 jobs in San Francisco by mid-October!  Also in San Francisco, InterContinental Hotels Group Resources eliminating 186 jobs right after Halloween!  Insurance company Allstate issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in San Diego, 58 jobs gone right after Halloween. Rainbow Disposal issued a layoff WARN for its ops in Huntington Beach, 71 jobs gone right after Halloween. The decision by Lowe’s to shutdown all its Orchard Supply Hardware will result in more than 1-thousand-3-hundred Californians becoming jobless by mid-October (according to official WARN)!

COLORADO: Niwot based Crocs shutting down its last shoe factory

FLORIDA: Wells Fargo lays off 137 from Orlando mortgage operations

The Orchard Supply Hardware shutdowns will result in 293 Floridians becoming jobless by mid-October!  1st Global Capital issued a WARN, 108 jobs gone by October!

GEORGIA: The following companies announced or conducted layoffs in August; Bob McCormick and Associates, Clean Break Cleaning, Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter/Ravinia, State Farm Insurance Companies, for a total of 166 jobs lost!

HAWAII: Volcano and hurricane blamed for economic shutdown

ILLINOIS: Moline businesses worry about future after Best Buy closes

INDIANA:  After 44 years, Richmond’s Elder-Beerman shuts down

Security guard contractor Andy Frain issued a shutdown WARN, 148 jobs gone by the end of September!

IOWA: Wells Fargo eliminating 25 jobs in West Des Moines.

MARYLAND: Wells Fargo to lay off 42 additional mortgage workers 

MICHIGAN: Multichannel customer experience ForeSee lays off Ann Arbor employees

MINNESOTA: Waseca Hy-Vee issued a shutdown WARN, 136 jobs gone by the end of September!

NEVADA: Cortez Masto slams Wells Fargo for laying off hundreds in Reno 

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Merrimack based Brookstone Is Closing all Its 101 Mall Stores

NEW YORK: JPMorgan Chase & Co. is laying off about 100 employees

White Plains Walmart shuts down a day earlier than expected

Best Buy issued a shutdown WARN for its store in Liverpool, 76 jobs gone by November. Sterling National Bank WARNed the state that all its offices were shutting down due to being taken over by competitor Astoria Bank. Wells Fargo issued a shutdown WARN for its Pittsford ‘fulfillment unit’.  ‘Intellectual property company’ Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto issued a layoff WARN, 127 jobs gone due to merging with competitor Venable!

NORTH CAROLINA: Mooresville based Lowe’s to close all 99 Orchard Supply Hardware stores 

What’s behind Wells Fargo’s latest layoffs in the Charlotte region

Layoff Notices: 550 workers impacted

OHIO: Cincinnati-based Proctor & Gamble has cut 36,000 jobs since the spring of 2012

Car parts packer Orbis eliminating 105 jobs

Columbus based Victoria’s Secret closing 20 stores

Cincinnati based Macy’s shares tumble as department store struggles to grow sales

Elder-Beerman begins closures of Dayton-area stores

OREGON:  Lowe’s-Orchard Supply Hardware issued a shutdown WARN, 112 jobs gone by mid-October!

PENNSYLVANIA: Coraopolis based Dick’s Sporting Goods’ shares slide as sales miss expectations

York based Bon-Ton Stores is about to disappear

SOUTH DAKOTA: South Dakota unions protest Citi layoffs, bank outsourcing

TEXAS: Capital One to lay off 286 employees from Plano office

Plano based JC Penney Faces Prospects of Closing Dozens of Stores Soon

Houston based Mattress Firm is closing hundreds of stores 

VIRGINIA: Nearly 100 Delta Global Services employees to lose jobs at RIC

WISCONSIN: Kohl’s cuts 60 technology jobs

Despite selling online, Milwaukee based iconic Carson Pirie Scott suddenly shutdown all stores and is going out of business (unless somebody is willing to buy the retailer and keep it alive)

Despite selling online, the end is near for Milwaukee based Younkers

Best Buy issued a shutdown WARN for its store in Grafton, 68 jobs gone by November.

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, August 2018:OUTBREAKS & RECALLS

SEARS KMART DEATH SPIRAL, August 2018: “A BIG RISK.”

U.S. HI-TECH/COMMUNICATIONS BREAKDOWN, August 2018:“UNPRECEDENTED DECLINES” “UNEXPECTED AND UNFORESEEABLE”

U.S. INDUSTRIAL/MINING/LOGISTICS layoffs, August 2018:“A 45-PERCENT DECLINE”

U.S. GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS, August 2018:ARE COPS THE NEW #1 ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE? IDAHO RAPES TAXPAYERS!

DUMBING DOWN THE U.S.A., August 2018:BARRICADES, ACTIVE SHOOTERS & MAGA

OBAMACARE ACA DEATH SPIRAL, August 2018:“SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES”

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, August 2018:‘SEVEN DAYS OF HELL’ ‘1.5 MILLION LETHAL DOSES’

U.S. RETAIL/BANKING/SERVICE SECTOR COLLAPSE, JULY 2018: “WE SURVIVED TARGET. WE SURVIVED WALMART, BUT WE COULDN’T SURVIVE THE ROAD CONSTRUCTION…”

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“significant changes”: U.S. Food Crisis, September 2018

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Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns, outbreaks and recalls for the month of September, 2018:

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

In Denmark, one of the world’s most profitable salmon farms is now blaming the mass die-off of salmon (750-thousand around just one of Denmark’s islands) on farm fertilizer run-off which is causing a deadly algae to bloom

Who actually makes money off taxpayer funded farm bills; Wealthy urbanites from Hollywood to Manhattan 

Is the Second Farm Crisis Upon Us?

Corn plunges on huge yields

More than 1-thousand-3-hundred Shop ’n Save employees across Illinois and Missouri losing their jobs as a result of failed efforts to sell-off the troubled stores by parent company Supervalu!

ALABAMA: Legal Petition Urges Feds to End Toxic Agricultural Pesticide Use on Alabama Wildlife Refuge Complex

Drought conditions spread

Almost a Half-Million Pounds of Prepared Chicken Is Being Recalled 

ALASKA: worries that Alaskans could lose food stamps 

240 varieties of potatoes grown in Palmer

ARKANSAS: In Texarkana, after more than 40 years Park Place Restaurant shutdown so the owner can retire.

Legal Issues in Arkansas Agriculture

Rain Stalls Potentially Record Arkansas Cotton Harvest

ARIZONA: The owners of Tucson Tamale Company said, on facebook, that they’re forced to shutdown their Broadway location because of road construction, they hope the shutdown is temporary.  In Chandler, after ten years Wimpy’s Paradise shutdown, the owner claiming he is not quiting the eatery scene, he just has to adjust to his age.

The cost of cotton

Life as a Farmworker in Yuma’s Lettuce Fields

Department of Agriculture investigates well-being of horses in Vail

CALIFORNIA: In Los Gatos, after 36 years Gilley’s Diner shutdown due to family ‘obligations’.  In San Francisco, The Matterhorn Swiss Restaurant shutdown after 24 years “because we’re old and tired.”  Four Ruby’s Diners, in Huntington Beach, Laguna Hills, Oceanside and Palm Springs, now bankrupt busted.  Color Spot Nurseries issued a shutdown WARN for its Carson location, 52 jobs gone by Thanksgiving. Veggie packer Jackpot Harvesting Company issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Gonzales, 256 jobs gone in January 2019! (it might have something to do with a lawsuit over compensation of piece-rate employees)

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton held a Feds Feed Families food event at the Blinder Memorial Chapel. Feds Feed Families is a U.S. Department of Agriculture operation, relying totally on unpaid volunteers (federal government employees), to help provide food to food pantries near military bases.

Despite California farm shutdowns, Farmers claim they’re Struggling To Find Workers. 

Arrogant leftist-liberal California claims its farmers will show the world how to lead on climate change.

COLORADO: Are hot springs the future of farming?

meatpacker recalls ground beef after E. coli death

CONNECTICUT: In Stratford, after 62 years popular restaurant Marnick’s shutdown without warning to customers and employees, local news media reported that city officials were happy to announce the property (which also included the Rodeway Inn) had been sold.

At Farm Aid In Hartford, Neil Young Tells Fans ‘Corporate Farms Suck’

DELAWARE: Restaurant Cocina Lolo shutdown after only three years, even the facebook page was disabled.

Third equine case of West Nile Virus confirmed

Monsanto grant to help Delaware Farm Bureau

Delaware farmers to get tariff relief

FLORIDA: What exactly is the Florida Commissioner of Agriculture?

GEORGIA: diversity of agriculture industry

Mayfield Dairy (Dean Foods) eliminated 108 jobs!

GUAM: Guam Agriculture Awarded $313-thousand in taxpayer funded Federal Grants

SNAP recipients to get 60% of food stamps automatically added to help deal with Typhoon Mangkhut

HAWAII: Stratos New York Pizzeria shutdown due to ongoing lava flows running-off tourists, and the fact that the owners have been blocked from moving to a new location.

IDAHO: tax panel raising valuations on irrigated farmland

elk hunters are having some of the best hunting of all time

Gov. Otter to lead trade mission to Canada

Raising warm water fish near the cool waters of Idaho

U.S. Department of Agriculture m44 land-mine explodes Pocatello family

ILLINOIS: Chicago based, but British empire Canada/South Africa owned, MillerCoors eliminating 350 corporate jobs in the U.S. by the end of October! MillerCoors is also raising prices, as well as canceling some of its products, due to crashing beer sales.  Shop-n-Save issued shutdown WARNs for grocery stores in Jerseyville, Granite City, Belleville, Cahokia and Springfield, 420 jobs gone just in time for Xmas!

record 300.5 pound watermelon

More proof its farm welfare; farmers anxious about promised federal taxpayer payouts

Rauner declares harvest emergency for 2nd straight year

INDIANA:  Farmers Need Industrial Hemp Or Legal Marijuana To Prosper

Indiana partners with British empire Canadian province to advance agricultural

Why aren’t land values plummeting?

IOWA: VeroBlue Farms issued a shutdown WARN for its fish farm ops in Webster (and also warned of looming bankruptcy), 24 jobs gone by Halloween.

Iowa land values fall

USDA is putting tax dollars into developing new markets

KANSAS: first step toward growing industrial hemp

American Farmers Are in Crisis

KENTUCKY: In Louisville, after 28 years Clifton’s Pizza shutdown because the owner needs to “take care of my personal life.”

AppHarvest launches high-tech agriculture class

test plot of malaria-fighting plant a success

Why Vermont students are farming in Kentucky

LOUISIANA: After 18 years The Melting Pot shutdown its Baton Rouge location because “we have been unable to work out a long term lease deal with our landlord”.

Government data proves Louisiana is in trouble

MAINE: Oyster farm on Maquoit Bay raises concerns

small, midsized farms suffering from labor shortage

Maine ranks highest in New England for food insecurity

MARYLAND: Fudgery shutdown its 33 years old location at Inner Harbor, due to sales that can’t keep up with increasing costs.

Coalition Launches ‘Save A Shore Farmer’ Program

New regulations for lawn-fertilizer 

MASSACHUSETTS: Save-A-Lot suddenly shutdown its 12 years old grocery store in Taunton, with only a weeks notice, local news media reported the corporate office refused to say why.  In Hyannis, Cape Cod Potato Chips suddenly laid off 21 people as part of efforts to ‘upgrade’ to new equipment, which reduced the three production lines down to just one.

Farmers Revive Historic Hops

Cranberry prices so low farmers are going to dump their crops!

Indigo raises $250M to build online marketplace for farmers

MICHIGAN: Grocery giant Kroger shutting down its store in Mundy, 73 jobs lost by the end of October.  In Hastings, after 30 years Mills Landing shutdown, the restaurant owners didn’t say why.  Great Lakes Coca-Cola Bottling shutting down its Kalamazo operations, 102 jobs affected by November!  Great North Foods issued a layoff WARN, at least 19 people (the official WARN also warned of additional layoffs) jobless right after Thanksgiving.

Here’s one reason for Trump’s tariffs; Michigan lost 143 dairy farms in the past year!

Marie Catrib’s in Grand Rapids closing in October

MINNESOTA: In Minneapolis, Colossal Cafe shutdown so the owner can retire.  Maple Plain Food Center shutdown after 52 years due to increased competition, the owners reminisced about how hard it was to start a family run store because of government regulators: “We were actually the first combination grocery store/pharmacy in the state of Minnesota. We had trouble getting our license initially because the state board of pharmacy thought it was unethical to have groceries and pharmacy in the same facility.”-Tom Reycraft

MISSISSIPPI: farmers, contractors still back Trump

MISSOURI: HeBrews Coffee forced to shutdown its Springfield location due to a court order, as a result of a dispute with the landlord.  In Saint Louis, after more than 40 years Llywelyn’s Pub, on McPherson Avenue, suddenly shutdown so the owner can focus on the more profitable locations.  In Jefferson City, Weber Meat Market shutting down by Xmas because the property owner wants to demolish everything, due to the fact that the majority of spaces in the 60 years old shopping plaza are vacant.  In Kansas City, after about 12 years Domo Sushi & Japanese Grill shutdown so the 75 years old owner can retire.

farmers still struggle

Drought effects persist despite rain

Farm owner refuses to comply with state regulations

MONTANA: The farmers who trust Trump

NEBRASKA: Obviously trying to “revolutionize the way America thinks about food” doesn’t pay-off because Eat Fit Go now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, suddenly shutting down two stores.

New health care plan available for Nebraska farmers

New Costco poultry complex initiates ripple effect at retail

NEVADA: Starving horses suddenly appear, nobody knows where they came from 

tariffs strengthen “perfect storm” slamming Nevada farms

USDA hands out $5-million taxpayer funded grant for snow-pack study

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  Farm Bet on Organic Eggs and Won Big

NEW JERSEY:  Grocery store Seasons now bankrupt busted and up for sale.  In Cherry Hill, Asian Food Markets shutdown its 13 years old Barclay Farms location, saying a new location is being sought.

a thriving agriculture industry

Hazelnuts could never grow in New Jersey — until now

NEW MEXICO:  USDA bills New Mexico $164-million for over-billing of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps)!

NEW YORK: Coffee shop chain Fika now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, apparently rent on 11 of the 20 shops hasn’t been paid. Maritima issued a shutdown WARN for its LaSirena restaurant, 140 jobs gone right after Xmas!  Signature issued a shutdown WARN for its North End Grill, 59 jobs gone a week before Xmas.

New invasive pest could impact NY’s agriculture

Immigration policy at the forefront of New York apple farming controversy

NORTH CAROLINA: Golden Corral shut down its buffet in Elizabeth City, without warning or explanation.  Smithfield Foods shutting down its Clayton distribution center, 1-hundred jobs lost to consolidation operations!  The Winterville Rucker Johns restaurant shutdown with no warning and no explanation.  In Washington, after six years Coffee Caboose shutdown.

Florence Engulfs Hog Farms And Chicken Houses causing floods of pig poop and chicken crap, Thrashes North Carolina Agriculture

Millions of dead chickens and pigs found in hurricane floods

Video, Maryland National Guard assists North Carolina National Guard in food distribution after Hurricane Florence:

Video, North Carolina National Guard delivers MREs to a local fire department after Hurricane Florence:

Marines from MCAS Cherry Point conduct food distribution ops house-to-house in New Bern, 20SEP2018.

NORTH DAKOTA: Judge rules North Dakota anti-corporate farm law is constitutional

Demand for North Dakota beans goes south

OHIO:  Tilted Kilt suddenly shutdown its pub-restaurant on East Prospect Avenue, in Cleveland, supposedly the employees will be working at a “new venue” elsewhere.  In Cincinnati, after 20 years restaurant Palomino announced it can’t renew the lease on its Fountain Square location and shutdown.  In Findlay, after 40 years New China Inn shutdown, the owners said “we’re getting old.” 

U.S. Defense Logistics Agency associates, along with local food bank volunteers, collected 9-thousand-143 pounds of food that will support more than 525-thousand people in Central Ohio!

Bumper crops not paying off for farmers

OKLAHOMA: Woody’s Corner Bar shutdown after 12 years in Tulsa, the owners claim they’ll be back with something new.  Also in Tulsa, the Natural Grocers store shutting down by November, 16 jobs lost to ‘recent financial performance’.

8-Year-Old Boy Killed In Farming Incident

producers can apply for funds to offset tariff disruptions

Men Charged with Series of Cattle and Equipment Thefts

OREGON:  Beaverton Bakery shutdown after 93 years, apparently due to increased competition as local news media reported there were eight other bakeries in the immediate area.  In Portland, Sweet Heart Pizza on North East 7th Avenue shutdown so it can be turned into something else.

Critical Drought Levels After Driest Summer 

USDA approves emergency grazing, cover crops

Feds will take over troubled Lost Valley Farm megadairy

PENNSYLVANIA:  In Indiana, after 25 years The Coventry Inn shutdown, the owners claiming they can’t find reliable employees saying “We need eight or 10 committed workers, and four or five is hopeless.”  In Pittsburgh, after 28 years Beehive CoffeeHouse & Dessertery forced to shutdown because the building is being sold-off.  In Hermitage, After 86 years family owned Darrenkamp’s grocery chain shutting down and/or selling-off its stores, more than 641 jobs affected!  Hunger relief organization Philabundance got 3-thousand-931 pounds of food from the local U.S. Defense Logistics Agency employees. Philabundance feeds 90-thousand people across Pennsylvania and New Jersey!

Spotted Lanternfly discovered

sounding the alarm on deer disease

$10 million in farm tax credits available

PUERTO RICO: In coffee country, ‘We have to motivate the farmers to come to the soil’ 

RHODE ISLAND: In Middletown, after 14 years Rusty’s Bar & Grill forced to shutdown so the property can be gentrified into a 23 unit apartment building, local news media reported that the customers are opposed to the city’s decision.

Hemp will be cropping up 

Topsfield Fair pumpkin record smashed

SOUTH CAROLINA: Hurricane Florence causes at least $125-million in damages to farms

SOUTH DAKOTA: 2-year-old dies from farming accident

Variability leads to questions about crop outcomes

TENNESSEE: In Franklin, after only two years the Buffalo Wings & Rings shutdown with only one weeks notice.

Who wants to be a farmer?

TEXAS: Farmers Branch based Taco Bueno suddenly shutdown 16 restaurants across four states due to “changing traffic patterns”.  In Upper Kirby, Steakhouse Power owned Del Frisco’s Grille suddenly shutdown after five years, local news media reported its another in a long list of restaurants that can’t seem to survive in that area of town.  In Austin, after more than 70 years iconic Hill’s Cafe shutdown, the owners say they’re looking for a new location.

Sheppard Air Force Base Feds Feed Families video promo:

UTAH:  new innovations in food production

Drought conditions prompt emergency meeting

Panguitch Lake closed because of toxic algal bloom

VERMONT: Magnolia Bistro suddenly shutdown after 12 years due to the owner’s negative social media comments about people with addictions, and despite the owner’s apology for those comments.

Scores of farm owners face higher taxes 

Thieves Put Damper On Hemp Harvest

VIRGINIA: man killed in farming accident

WASHINGTON: Starbucks warning of massive layoffs at the corporate level due to “significant changes”.  

Record $171-million spent in farm-land sale

apple crop awaits answers amid ongoing trade uncertainty

WEST VIRGINIA: More Women Are Becoming Farmers

U.S. Attorney Sues Hemp Farm Over Seeds’ Origin

WISCONSIN: On Pace To Hit Highest Loss Of Dairy Farms In 4 Years

University of Wisconsin-Madison: Ancient farmers reduced the negative effects of The Ice Age and started Global Warming

The Fort McCoy Commissary donated food as part of the nation-wide Feds Feed Families operation.  Feds Feed Families is a USDA operation, relying totally on unpaid volunteers (federal government employees), to help provide food to food pantries near military bases.

WYOMING: Why a wrinkle in the old water law is worth millions (thanks to the oil industry)

elk populations boom ahead of hunting season

Wyoming to begin international trade with Taiwan

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, August 2018: OUTBREAKS & RECALLS

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Taxes, bad cops & criminal migrants on the rise!: U.S. government shenanigans, September 2018

Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of United States Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for September 2018:

 U.S. Has Highest Share of Foreign-Born Since 1910

At Camp Foster, Japan, military personnel became U.S. citizens, LEGALLY, 06SEP2018.

ALABAMA: Selma City Council passes $17.4 million budget

ALASKA: Anchorage budget proposal relies on taxes, revenues, cuts

ARKANSAS: 15 migrants arrested

CALIFORNIA: Rape suspect arrested, turns out he’s a ‘Safety Specialists’ at UC Berkeley!

On-duty Kern County deputy arrested for allegedly being on drugs

Court rules San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputy violated the Fourth Amendment rights of students

Deputy arrested for violating probation

Retired cop arrested for grand theft auto and threatening other cops

Stanislaus County Supervisor has DUI arrest record

150 Undocumented Immigrants, Most of Them With Criminal Records, Arrested in 3-Day Operation

Deep in red, Sacramento City school district’s budget rejected 

COLORADO: Denver unveils almost $1.5B budget proposal

FLORIDA: 

U.S. Coast Guard captures 11 migrants and three human traffickers off Boca Raton, 08SEP2018.

Two City of Clearwater employees arrested for stealing from the taxpayers

police lieutenant arrested, accused of molesting little girl

Palm Beach County Sheriff’s  deputy arrested for possessing and sharing child pornography

Palm Beach County Sheriff’s  deputy fired for being drunk (was already in trouble for multiple hazing incidents and assaulting prisoners)

Police Officer arrested for disorderly conduct at restaurant

corrections trainee charged with sexual misconduct

Prison guard arrested for drugs and bribery

“An inmate at Columbia Correctional Institution’s annex was able to strangle and mutilate his cellmate, gouge out his eyeballs, wrap his blood-soaked body in a sheet and walk into the prison’s chow hall wearing the dead inmate’s ear strung around his neck before officers learned anything was amiss…”

Gainesville Regional Utilities jacked-up by 2%

Tampa approves more than $1-billion budget

Bradenton passes record budget. Yes, you will pay more

GEORGIA: deputy kept job despite child cruelty arrest

Deputy arrested for illegally selling guns

ILLINOIS: 63% of registered voters say they’re O-K with immigrants flooding into the state, yet 53% also said they want to get the hell outta Dodge (leave the state)!

Police admit gangs are behind gun violence

Department of Corrections investigating prisoner deaths 

Despite raising property taxes, the City of Evanston still short by $7.5-million, will now increase fees and cut services 

IDAHO: Budget office warns Idahoans may face bigger tax bills

2019 state education budget proposal includes $19.1 million for police-state ‘student safety’

proposed teacher raises revised, after error found in budget

Death, understaffing claims prompt another investigation of taxpayer funded ‘treatment’ center

Nampa asks for volunteers to scare away crows

Taxpayers forced to pay $78000 to national search firm to find next U of I president

INDIANA: Two men, including the Sewer and Maintenance Superintendent of Muncie, arrested for wire fraud, falsification of documents and witness tampering.

Deputy quits job after being arrested for being drunk 

Indianapolis Police & Fire demand more taxpayer funding

IOWA: 2018 budget surplus a higher than expected

LOUISIANA: Five Deputies arrested for beating and raping prisoners!

Opelousas City Council increases taxpayer funded budget

KENTUCKY: 16 U.S. Army soldiers at Fort Knox became U.S. citizens, LEGALLY, 19SEP2018.

MASSACHUSETTS: 

In Boston, 24 military personnel became U.S. citizens, LEGALLY, 20SEP2018.

MINNESOTA: Big budget cuts, layoffs at White Earth reservation, including police force

MISSISSIPPI: 16 prisoners die

Hattiesburg City Council swears residents will be safer due to more cops, despite efforts to reduce a $3.47 million budget shortfall

Pascagoula jacks-up taxes in effort to stop mass layoffs and reduce $14-million deficit

MISSOURI: City of Jefferson to buy new cop cars and rezone 139 properties

NEW HAMPSHIRE: State’s growth dependent upon foreigners as more citizens left the state, than moved in, from 2002-2012.

NEW JERSEY:  Newark Liberty International Airport eliminating 8-hundred jobs due to United Airlines suddenly changing its ground handling contract!

NJ cop arrested on charges of luring underage children for sex

NEW MEXICO: Every month state taxpayers forced to fund secret lawsuit settlements!

deputy arrested outside Santa Fe bar

Border Patrol Agent Arrested in Connection With Murders of 4 Women

NEW YORK: 7 New York Police Officers Arrested

Police sergeant, firefighter, nurse among 24 alleged child predators arrested in sting operation

Male prison guard arrested for having sex with prisoner

Female prison guard arrested for raping prisoner

OHIO: Sandusky cop arrested on felony charges

Mahoning County Sheriff’s Deputy arrests Lisbon City Police Officer

Corrections officers disciplined after prisoner escapes

Prison guard turns whistleblower revealing pics that show dungeon-like conditions of taxpayer funded prison

OKLAHOMA: Colonel Christopher A. Hussin, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Tulsa County Drainage District 12 Levee Commissioner signed a Cost Sharing Agreement for the $3-million taxpayer funded Tulsa-West Tulsa Levee System Feasibility Study.  The levee was first built in the 1940s and apparently is in need of updating if it’s to continue as a flood control system.

Thousands of Oklahomans switch political party affiliation

senator convicted of child sex trafficking sentenced

PENNSYLVANIA: Taxpayer funded for-profit prison contractor GEO issued a shutdown WARN (Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification) for its Walker Hall operations, 27 jobs gone right after Thanksgiving.

Corrections officer accused of smuggling drugs

SOUTH CAROLINA: Prison guards arrested for drug smuggling

TENNESSEE: Correctional Officer Accused Of Smuggling 

TEXAS: Arrests of Bexar County cops sets new record in 2018!

Bexar County deputy arrested on drunk driving charge; 17th deputy criminally charged in 2018

Deputy arrested on DWI charge gets fired

Dallas police officer who shot neighbor dead arrested

El Paso County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested an El Paso City Police officer for deadly hit-&-run

Wise County deputy arrested for assault

Border agents in South Texas saw increase in migrant families make illegal crossings

San Antonio adopts $2.8-billion budget

Amarillo increases taxes to hire more cops

UTAH: Firefighting group expresses concern over prisoner rape arrest

WASHINGTON: Female prison guard arrested for having sex with prisoner

Seattle unveils $5.9 billion budget proposal

The never ending Hanford nuclear reservation clean-up (proposed) budget is now $15-million higher than last year 

Spokane Public Schools to pay for teacher pay raises by forcing teachers to retire early

Washington DC: Ice arrests more than 40 people trying to sponsor migrant children

Border arrests of migrant families increase 38 percent 

Indians (from India) arrested for illegally entering U.S. nearly triples

New TRAC Report Shows Where ICE Arrests Occur

ObamaCare-ACA death spiral, September 2018: “DANGEROUSLY LOW”

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., September 2018: TEACHERS MORE VIOLENT & CRIMINAL THAN STUDENTS?

Drugs, the American Way, September 2018: “…THE ENTIRE COUNTRY MUST FOCUS ON THIS!” “DRUG DEALERS IN ARMANI SUITS”

U.S. government shenanigans, August 2018: ARE COPS THE NEW #1 ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE? IDAHO RAPES TAXPAYERS!

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Are Cops the new #1 Enemy of the People? Idaho rapes taxpayers!: U.S. government shenanigans, August 2018

Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of United States Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for August 2018:

Civil Asset Forfeiture: A Guide to Policing For Profit. 

USA Today: Prisoners nationwide go on strike to protest ‘modern-day slavery’

ALABAMA: Warrior police officer arrested for 2nd time in 2 years

Video released proves female cop summarily executed a man for trying to help a stray dog and for refusing to show a drivers license!

Retired Drug Task Force cop turns out to be a drug dealer

Sanitation and gas tax dominates

ARIZONA: Video update of National Guard support ops for U.S. Customs and Boarder Protection (Border Patrol) at Port of Nogales, Operation Guardian Support:

CALIFORNIA: Taxpayer funded General Dynamics eliminating 1-thousand-493 NASSCO jobs (according to official WARN) in San Diego, by the end of September, supposedly due to an accident involving a USN ship and a new floating dry dock! Electronic voting software company Everyone Counts eliminating 18 jobs in La Jolla.  Texas based prison contractor ISI Detention Contracting Group suddenly halted ops in Orange, 27 jobs suddenly gone.

Border Patrol cop arrested for ‘strangling’ traveler 

Whittier police officer arrested for sexually assaulting 2 minors

Politician and his wife arrested for illegal use of campaign money

Illegal gun dealer was a cop!

California spends more than half its yearly taxpayer funded fire budget in one month!

COLORADO:  Fort Collins expects slowing tax revenues, despite legalized ganja

FLORIDA: Taxpayer funded GCR eliminating 35 jobs at Cape Canaveral, in September.  Taxpayer funded Lockheed Martin-Sikorsky eliminating 5-hundred jobs, in Jupiter, by the end of December!

Police officer arrested, accused of breaking prisoner’s leg

Prison guard arrested for drugs

Yes, Rick Scott did cut $700 million from Florida’s water management

GEORGIA: congressional candidate arrested for murder

congressional candidate sentenced to six months in jail

GUAM:  New Island Sustainability Community Advisory Board formed

IDAHO: Taxpayer funded software problem closes driver’s license offices, hinders police

FBI arrests ten people for selling fake cellphones

One Third of Middleton police department serves in Idaho Army National Guard

Idaho prisons mulling 20 percent taxpayer funded budget boost

“Idaho has the highest incarceration rate of any of its surrounding states, but the lowest rate of violent crime. The state is currently considering a $500 million prison expansion.”

Canyon County blames massive budget increase on prison overcrowding

South Idaho deputy’s shooting of family dog investigated

Idaho schools chief’s new security plan may cause chaos

State leaders report a surprise $100-million increase in tax collections!

State government sells-off 51 Priest Lake properties for $26-million

Kootenai County wants to jack-up property taxes

Idaho County wants to jack-up property taxes

City of Meridian reduces budget yet jacks-up property taxes

Twin Falls reduces budget yet jacks-up property taxes

Idaho Falls police demand more taxpayer funding

Boise Fire Department ‘loses’ $17-million in taxpayer funding!

Lewiston Airport sees increase in operating costs, yet suffers 60% decrease in flights

Problems getting worse for the now taxpayer funded Portneuf Wellness Complex (I must point out this ‘wellness complex’ was originally built without Bannock County taxpayer approval as it was touted as being funded with donations)

Bannock County official placed on paid administrative leave

Pocatello’s massive taxpayer burdening Northgate interchange project delayed until at least next summer

Pocatello’s community access channel will shut down

Zimbabwe man who lived in Pocatello for 15 years to be deported

Troubled University of Idaho reports big drop in funding for athletic programs

College of Idaho warns of budget cuts and layoffs due to crashing enrollments and funding

Paranoid grade schools cut operating budgets in order to increase spending on police-state ‘security’!

ILLINOIS:  Politician’s campaign staffer arrested for attacking political opponents

INDIANA: Arrest caught on video ends with cop being fired

LOUISIANA: Saint Tammany Parish laying off 21 people, as part of an earlier warning that as many as 40 Parish employees would lose their jobs due to local sales tax collections crashing by millions of U.S. dollars.

10 new laws that could affect your daily life

Oak Grove cop charged with rape

Shreveport police officer arrested

MARYLAND: Baltimore cop resigns after ‘disturbing’ video

MICHIGAN: County cop arrested for being drunk and fighting with city cops

MISSISSIPPI:  12th Mississippi prisoner Dies in August

MISSOURI: Ferguson officer fired for stalking, assault

NEVADA:  911 dispatcher arrested 

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  Top Democrat arrested for domestic violence

NEW JERSEY: Mail-order cocaine and a top cop’s arrest spark new calls to kill an entire police department!

NEW MEXICO: Oil boom drives tax revenues to record high

NEW YORK: Taxpayer funded General Dynamics eliminating 31 CSRA InfoTech(IT)-national security jobs in Fort Drum, by the end of October, officially due to loss of contract.

Cop arrested for grabbing women

NORTH CAROLINA:  Dozens of people arrested in one county for ‘illegal voting’!

congressional candidate arrested on stalking charges

OHIO:  Cop arrested, charged with drug trafficking

Female corrections officer arrested

OKLAHOMA: taxpayer funded Veterans Center doctor arrested for attacking a taxpayer funded cop

Cop arrested, accused of choking son

PENNSYLVANIA: Prison guard arrested for drug smuggling

SOUTH CAROLINA:  Cop charged with killing his wife

TENNESSEE: Lack of tax revenues threaten police departments

County promises no tax increases or budget cuts, in return for selling taxpayer owned hospital

TEXAS:  Entire police force turns out to be criminal gang as Series of indictments nearly wipes out Llano Police Department

Female cop arrested twice in 3 weeks

police officer found guilty of murder

Cop arrested Just 10 Days After Being Sworn-In

Cop spending just 15 years in prison for killing high school student

Mansfield mayor demands tax relief for home owners

VIRGINIA: Taxpayer funded General Dynamics eliminating 101 CSRA InfoTech(IT)-national security jobs in Chesapeake, by the end of September, as a result of taking over taxpayer funded CSRA this year!

Police Officer Arrested in Death of Baby Daughter

WASHINGTON:   eighth prisoner to die in Spokane County custody

cop arrested again in domestic violence case

Spokane police officer pleads guilty

police sergeant sentenced to 7-years in prison for sexually assaulting another cop!

Ongoing jump in retail sales tax revenues allows city of Spokane Valley to suspend planned property tax increase, now expects nearly $4-million surplus!

Washington DC: CIA officer faces arrest 

Former head of CDC (and Obama lackey) Tom Frieden arrested

Congressmen arrested for Insider Trading

How many of Donald Trump’s advisers have been convicted?

Three Men Arrested for Impersonating Senate Staff

Trump gives $717 billion taxpayer funded military bill a green light

Trump cancels pay raises for federal employees

Senate increases taxpayer spending on the National Institutes of Health to $39-billion!

Federal budget deficit increases 79%

WYOMING: Greybull police officer arrested on federal charge

Drugs, the American Way, August 2018: ‘SEVEN DAYS OF HELL’ ‘1.5 MILLION LETHAL DOSES’

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., August 2018: BARRICADES, ACTIVE SHOOTERS & MAGA

ObamaCare-ACA death spiral, August 2018: “SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES”

U.S. government shenanigans, July 2018: TAXES & NEW LAWS PROVE IT’S NO LAND OF THE FREE!

Business/Economics

“a sequence of unfortunate events”: Sears Kmart death spiral, January 2019

“If you have any gift cards, spend them as quickly as you possibly can and don’t purchase any more!”-James E. Dion, Dionco Incorprated

MotleyFool: Real Estate Investment Trusts to benefit from Lampert’s bid

Fox News: Dying Kmarts killing off Little Caesars pizza!!!

Washington Examiner: Taxpayers now own Sears-Kmart employee retirement plan!

Japan Times: The nicest Sears you’ll ever see is not owned by Sears, it’s not even in the United States!

FoxBusiness: “Ten of thousands of laid off employees are doubling down on their demand for Lampert to honor his commitment to pay severance and to also set up a hardship fund to provide immediate support to all families impacted by the bankruptcy.”

Wall Street Journal:  Edward Lampert Prevails in Bankruptcy Auction

New bid for Sears-Kmart tops $5-billion

Yahoo Finance:  Amazon eyes closed Sears stores for Whole Foods expansion

CNBC: Court gives Eddie Lampert a second chance to buy Sears-Kmart

Lampert makes two offers for Sears: one to save it, one to salvage pieces in a partial liquidation

TheStreet: Liquidation Looms As Bid to Save Sears Falls Apart

Modern Readers: Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores (SHOS) Receives Negative Rating

If Sears Holdings (Sears-Kmart) were to liquidate it would mean at least 68-thousand people across the United States would suddenly become jobless.

ALABAMA:  The Sears Hometown stores in Monroeville and Opelika shutting down.

ARKANSAS: The Rogers Sears Hometown Store is shutting down.

FLORIDA: The Homosassa Sears Hometown Store shutting down.

GEORGIA: The Sears Hometown Store in Milledgeville shutting down by February, blaming a sudden crash in sales on the Sears Holdings bankruptcy.  The Vidalia Sears Hometown Store also shutting down.

IDAHO: The Lewiston Sears Hometown Store shutting down, local news media said back in October the operators of the store swore the Sears-Kmart bankruptcy would not affect them.

KANSAS: The Parsons, Wichita and Wellington Sears Hometown stores are shutting down.

KENTUCKY: The Murray Sears Hometown Store shutting down.

LOUISIANA: The Bayou Vista Sears Hometown shutting down.

MARYLAND: A former Baltimore cop has published a book detailing the level of crimes committed by cops, including fake drug busts, ‘disappearing’ drugs from police evidence lockers, even stealing from local Sears stores under operation ‘Shopping Spree’: “They usually stole children’s clothing, small appliances and expensive tools. In fact, they often took orders in advance from other police.”–James I. Cabezas, who helped convict state lawmakers, city councilmen and, famously, a Baltimore mayor

MICHIGAN: The Sears Hometown Store in Manistee shutting down once the inventory is gone.  The Sears Hometown Store in Howell shutting down by the end of the month due to “a sequence of unfortunate events”, including a sudden crash in sales when Sears Holdings went bankrupt.  Sears Holdings does not directly control Sears Hometown stores, they are considered independently owned operations.

MISSISSIPPI: The Philadelphia Sears Hometown shutting down, the owner told local news media he wants to distance himself from the Sears brand and hopes to open a new store in the same location.

NEBRASKA: Bellevue Sears Hometown shutting down.

NEW JERSEY:  Taxpayers of Cape May County are the official new owners of the vacant Kmart in Rio Grande, county officials bought the property for $5.75-million USD and plan to use it as its new Social Services office.

NEW YORK: Local news media reporting the Salmon Run Mall Sears was suddenly shutdown, long before its planned closure.

Empire State customers racing the bankruptcy clock in hopes of getting thousands in refund dollars owed them by Sears!

PENNSYLVANIA: Sears Holdings issued a shutdown WARN (Worker Adjustment Retraining Notice) for its distribution operations in Luzerne County, 121 jobs gone by the end of March!

The Pittsburgh Kmart on West View Park Drive was sold. The following store list reveals which Kmart and Sears store leases are now ‘available’ to the highest bidder:  Allentown Kmart, Altoona Kmart, Berwick Kmart, Camp Hill (Lower Allen Township) Sears, Carlisle (South Middleton Township) Kmart, Chambersburg Kmart, Clifton Heights Kmart, Columbia Kmart, Doylestown Kmart, Dubois Sears, Easton Kmart, Edwardsville Kmart, Elizabethtown Kmart, Ephrata Kmart, Erie Kmart, Exton Sears, Holmes Kmart, Hummelstown Kmart, Lancaster Sears, Langhorne/Oxford Valley Mall Sears, Lebanon (North Cornwall Township) Kmart, Leechburg Kmart, Matamoras Kmart, Media Sears, New Castle Kmart, New Kensington Kmart, North Versailles Kmart, North Wales Sears, Philadelphia Kmart, Phoenixville Kmart, Pittsburgh Kmart on Butler Street, Reading Sears, Shillington Kmart, Stroudsburg Sears, Thorndale Kmart, Towanda Kmart, Walnutport Kmart, Washington Sears, West Chester Kmart, Whitehall Sears, Wilkes Barre Kmart, Williamsport Kmart, Willow Street Kmart, Windgap Kmart.  The following list reveals which Sears Holdings owned properties are for sale: Willow Grove Sears, Harrisburg (Lower Paxton Township/Colonial Park Mall) Sears.  On top of the above lists Sears Holdings also revealed it has seven retail leases listed as “other”, and about ten “non-retail” leases.

TENNESSEE: McMinnville and Tazewell Sears Hometown stores shutting down.

TEXAS: After 20 years the Sears Hometown in Austin suddenly announced it was shutting down at the end of February, according to local news media the employees were notified a week before the public announcement.  Crockett, Jasper and Floresville Sears Hometown stores shutting down.

WISCONSIN: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: People, and employees, stealing carts full of merchandise and cash from shuttering Big Kmart, and apparently nobody is stopping them! 

Sears-Kmart death spiral, December 2018: “NOW THEY NEED A JOB.” “EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY”!

U.S.

Outbreaks & Recalls: U.S. Food Crisis, August 2018

Video

Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns, outbreaks and recalls for the month of August, 2018:

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

CBS News: More Americans struggling to buy food, especially those with kids

In Korea (south) the U.S. Air Force’s 51st Fighter Wing has started a Food First! program to help with its Drug Demand Reduction operations.  It’s partly based on studies that show that so-called health food supplements don’t actually work in people who are considered healthy: “The program highlights the importance of good nutrition, hydration, rest and recovery, and physical activity in the development and maintenance of good health as opposed to relying on supplements such as multivitamins and protein shakes.”-Lisa Roof, 51st MDG Health Promotion Coordinator

NationalPublicRadio: Your Kitchen Spices Can Harbor Salmonella

What Sparked An E. Coli Outbreak In Lettuce?

Healthline: Is Pork the New Chicken When It Comes to Drug-Resistant Salmonella?

CNN: Avoid these foods due to outbreaks and recalls

AgWeb: Farm Real Estate Value Averaging $3140/Acre for 2018

ALABAMA: “If all things go well….and the NASS report holds true Alabama farmers expect to set new yield records for corn, cotton, peanuts and soybeans in 2018.”

Local farm industry surging, saving bankrupt mom-n-pop stores?

Alabama woman hospitalized sues Pepperidge Farms-Goldfish crackers over salmonella 

6 current food-borne illness outbreaks

Video of members of the 117th Air Refueling Wing, Air National Guard, delivering donated food to a homeless shelter:

ALASKA: “Alaska Berries is the only certified Alaska Grown winery in the state.”

“…limits have increased for coho salmon to four per day and eight in possession. Fishing is very good in most locations.”

Kenai River closing to sockeye salmon fishing

A Dwindling Catch Has Alaskans Uneasy

Total Salmon Catch Tops 80 Million Fish

ARKANSAS: farmers facing big crop losses from heavy rains

New “gift” funded rice research center to open

C&H’s owners propose new hog operation near Arkansas River

Tiny Worms Bug Arkansas’s Soybean Farmers

ARIZONA: 500 Arizona farmers Could Upend Drought Plan for all of the southwest U.S.

Western Growers opposes Arizona energy initiative

Arizona may have to cut back on water use in 2020

Farmers need fast answers on cause of E. coli in romaine lettuce

CALIFORNIA: Kings Fish House ‘temporarily’ shutting down its restaurant in Carlsbad, 86 jobs gone by October.  Oxnard Lemon Company issued a layoff WARN for its operations in Oxnard, 155 jobs gone right after Halloween!

Farmers Protest California Water Plan Aimed to Save Salmon

New Groundwater Law Means Big Changes

Southeast U.S. cotton farmers shown how Californians do it

Toxic pesticides found at most illegal California pot farms

Marijuana farms Destroyed By Wildfires

COLORADO: Salmonella Linked to Arapahoe County Fair/4-H event

Cargill Recalls 25000 Pounds of potentially E. coli – tainted Ground Beef

USAA reports 8000 claims from hailstorm

Large hail kills several animals and injures 14 people

‘Farming in the Forest’

Sugar beets making a comeback

CONNECTICUT: Edible Arrangements issued a WARN, 125 jobs in Wallingford gone right after Xmas!

Farm Aid concert scheduled to help save dairy farmers

Award winning dairy farm uses robots

One of the Country’s Oldest Tobacco Farms is Switching to Booze

DELAWARE: Delaware Gets Disaster Designation by Agriculture Officials

West Nile Virus confirmed in two Delaware horses

FLORIDA: Publix recalls ground beef products sold in Florida for possible E. coli 

20th annual Southern Peanut Growers Conference reports 80% of the world’s human population will live in urban areas by 2040, so who will grow the food?

Food fight divides growers in Florida and West Coast

Florida’s red tide takes a mounting toll. And it’s not just on the fish.

Animal sacrifices made on illegal slaughter farm 

Animal protection groups proved that 145 Florida farms were abusing animals, resulting in shutdown of those farms.

The Top 7 Challenges for Small Farms in Florida

GEORGIA: Mayfield Dairy Farms conducting final shutdown of their ops in Braselton, 108 jobs gone starting mid-September!  The dairy actually began shutting down operations in 2011, due to the not-so-recovered economy.

Georgia farms ‘rock solid’ despite weather, trade war

Former U.S. President, and peanut farmer, Jimmy Carter shuns riches and lives modestly in his hometown

HAWAII: ‘Little Buggers’ Are Taking A Big Bite Out Of Hawaii’s Macadamia Crop

Repeated natural disasters pummel Hawaii’s farms

Official FEMA video explaining how it helps prep for natural disasters:

IDAHO:  man sickened by E. coli sues Idaho distributor

“Investigations into livestock deaths in Idaho blamed on wolves don’t have to be made public, the U.S. government says.”

‘Donated’ Sandpoint orchard is site of new University of Idaho organic center

Robots in Idaho dairy farms

Boise using goats as organic lawnmowers?

ILLINOIS:  Aramark lost its food service contract with University of Chicago Ingalls Memorial Hospital and UoC Medical Center, 369 jobs gone right after Halloween!  Shop ‘n Save Warehouse Foods issued a WARN for its Collinsville location, 60 jobs gone by the end of September.

Did Illinois Farmers lie to the USDA on Their August Surveys?

In 2018, grain farms will barely break even

INDIANA: Herd of bison escape from Indiana farm

‘Powered by Poo’: How One of the World’s Biggest Dairies Finds Energy in the Unlikeliest of Places

IOWA: US Foods issued a shutdown WARN for its Sioux City location, 30 jobs gone by September.  

Molly Tibbetts murder case reveals secret of Iowa farms; reliance on illegal immigrants

It’s Harder to Bring Home the Bacon

New U.S.-Mexico trade deal could save Iowa farmers

KANSAS: Millions on the table: The potential of industrial hemp in Kansas

Building the Mecca of Heritage Poultry in Kansas

KENTUCKY: A ham just sold for $2.8 million in Kentucky

In Kentucky, Farmers Find Hemp May Be More Profitable Than Tobacco

MAINE: Shortage of farmhands causes farmers to lose crops

Missouri pork farmers breathe new life into an old Maine dairy farm

Maine dairy farm embraces technology

man who overdosed sues salmon farm for failing to call 9-1-1

MARYLAND: County Seeks to Block Oyster Farm Growth

Maryland, Delaware corn lags

MASSACHUSETTS: dairy farm determined to stay viable

How crops, trees are weathering the rain

Northboro seeks halt to composting at Santo Anza’s farm

A Pioneering Massachusetts Program Helps Low-Income Residents Eat Healthier and Supports Local Farmers

MICHIGAN: Kenco issued a shutdown WARN for its Country Market store in Dexter, 49 jobs gone by November.

farmer’s controlled burn smolders underground weeks later

drought strains farmers

soybean farmer worried about Chinese tariff hikes

$510 million in dairy facilities coming to mid-Michigan

MINNESOTA:  Farmers’ feelings on tariffs mixed

Big Minnesota pork producer ‘surprised’ by immigration raids

Minnesota farmers trying to save Gulf of Mexico shrimpers

MISSISSIPPI: chicken farmers demand less government regulation

soybean farmers blame racism for faulty seeds

MISSOURI: 34 Sickened in Salmonella Outbreak

Drought causes Farmers Market to close

Drought takes toll on crops, cattle

Metro farmers begging state parks for emergency drought help

NEBRASKA:  ICE raid targeting employers and more than 100 workers rocks a small Nebraska town

Late season hail wipes out some crops in central Nebraska

Who pays to maintain your irrigation system?

After farming Nebraska for 150 years one farm family fled the state due to ever increasing taxation.

NEVADA: Local food advocates work to bring more urban farms to Northern Nevada

Is the Farming Future of Las Vegas Indoors?

Hemp Industry Grows In Nevada

1st Year of Nevada Marijuana Sales Smokes Expectations

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Federal taxpayers give 15 New Hampshire farm ops $2.8-million USD

Upper Valley Berry Farmers on High Alert for Dreaded Fruit Fly

Couple Running ‘Animal Rescue’ Facing 44 Animal Cruelty Charges

NEW JERSEY:  Switzerland based Nestlé eliminating 175 jobs in Kearny by October!

210-acre farm one step closer to growing medical ganja

NEW MEXICO: After 13 years in Las Cruces, Toucan Market shutting down, the owners blame crashing sales caused by new competitors.

Groundwater Diversion Plan Rejected as ‘Water Speculation’

Chinese tariffs spur concern for pecan growers

NEW YORK:  Bankrupt, Amherst based Tops Friendly Markets announced it is shutting down at least ten grocery stores due to them not making enough money to pay the rent, 492 jobs lost right after Thanksgiving (according to official WARN)!  The grocery chain is reported to have $720-million USD of debt.  In Rochester, Johnny’s Irish Pub shutting down in September after 21 years, so the owner can ‘move on’.  Without warning British empire based Compass Group-Chartwells lost its food service contract with College of Mount Saint Vincent, 43 jobs suddenly gone.

NORTH CAROLINA: Nuisance lawsuits now threaten all farmers

NORTH DAKOTA: North Dakota farmers struggle with toxic byproduct of the oil industry boom

The case of the mystery photographers caught trespassing in farm fields: Big Brother state Ag officials admit their employees have been spying on farmers!

Aggressive Weed Found in North Dakota for the First Time

OHIO:  The problem of people without food is so bad that the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime and the Defense Supply Center Columbus is working on its ninth year supporting the Mid-Ohio Food Bank, and that’s only to fight the food crisis affecting 183-thousand-750 children and 89-thousand-250 old people just in the Columbus area!  But wait, don’t think this is a totally taxpayer funded effort, according to official Department of Defense sources the employees who work the ‘Feds Feed Families’ (FFF) operation are doing so voluntarily.   In Hamilton, Andy’s Restaurant shutdown after 62 years.  Riesbeck’s Food Market shutdown its Wintersville location, saying the store is so old it’s not worth it to upgrade it or to continue paying rent on it, 60 jobs gone.

agri-tourism immunity law extends to many farm-based activities

OKLAHOMA: USAF Jet Crashes Into A Farm

Four counties designated as primary natural disaster areas

Local man charged with “defrauding local farmers by providing migrant workers with improper legal status and allegedly charging fake immigration and transportation fees” 

Thousands of chickens Found Dead, Beaten, Gassed

OREGON:  Court rules that dairy farm can continue its troubled wastewater ops

Pot Growers Now Must Notify state government About Harvests

PENNSYLVANIA:  farmers poised to bring back hemp, once a state staple

Oversupply threatens dairy industry

‘Monsoon’ delays projects, swells peaches 

3 men accused of sexually abusing farm animals

PUERTO RICO: how hurricane Maria actually helped small farms

yet,  Coffee, banana and orange farmers say they “lost everything”

Rescued dogs taken from Puerto Rico to Virginia 

RHODE ISLAND: Rhode Island Sued Over Truck Tolls

SOUTH CAROLINA: ‘Poor man’s meat’ may find home on South Carolina farms

As first crop of SC hemp nears harvest, scores of farmers line up

Neighbors want to stop mega-farms from guzzling water. 

Thousands of soybean farmers face big financial losses 

SOUTH DAKOTA:  South Dakota kids can legally stay home at any age, and for farmers, it’s better that way

Pheasant counts up for 2018, still below long-term average

TENNESSEE: Wheat farmers need to ‘break mold’ for weed control

Rescued farm animals finally at home

The good, bad, and ugly of farming with precision technologies

Legal Hemp Crops Pose Problems For Law Enforcement

TEXAS:  farmers see new source of green in legal hemp

Texas agriculture touted as innovative, diverse

rice farmers experiencing bumper 2018

Trade “aid” leaves behind wounded corn farmers

West Texas Vineyards Blasted By Herbicide Drift From Nearby Cotton farms

UTAH:  Thieves target small family farm, steal unusual items

Growing Population Could Threaten Cherry Production

farmers share fruits of their labor with wildfire evacuees

Farmers band together to battle fire

Algae-related toxin found in Jordan River

Drought Forces Hard Choices 

Frequent dog attacks imperil livestock

VIRGINIA: brewery, farm help each other out

farmers, vintners lament record-breaking rain

peanuts bear heavy thrips damage, other challenges

Poultry vs. tourism comment ‘a slap in the face’

WASHINGTON: production looking good for Washington wheat despite uncertain markets

‘Crops go unharvested and animals go uncared for.’ 

The  burden of making Washington king of the cherry

Dairy industry struggling

Garbage from booming marijuana industry clogs gutters

Washington DC: New Native American farm fund to distribute $266 million

E. coli strain from retail poultry may cause urinary tract infections

Trump is giving farmers a $6 billion bailout 

August USDA Reports Confirm Too Much of Everything

“A whopping 15.6 million American households experienced at least some food insecurity…”

WEST VIRGINIA:  Kroger shutting down its grocery store in Smithers, 59 jobs gone in October due to “low financial returns”.

Farming Project Doesn’t Go as Planned

Taxpayer funded Program pays Farmers to Conserve Flood-Prone Land

Schools and farmers warn about new foreign-owned stone wool factory

WISCONSIN:  With only one day’s official WARN warning, PF Chang’s shutdown its Middleton restaurant, 36 jobs suddenly gone.

More than 4% of Wisconsin Dairy Farms Call It Quits in 2018—So Far

New taxpayer funded Crop Insurance Program May Benefit Dairy Farmers

WYOMING:  Where’s The Beef? Wyoming Ranchers Bet On Blockchain

Man trampled to death by bull 

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, July 2018: “THE RISE OF BIG BOX STORES”

Business/Economics

“Now they need a job.” “effective immediately”!: Happy New Year, Sears-Kmart death spiral December 2018!

EverythingLubbock.com: woman waiting on reimbursement from Sears two months later

CNBC: Vacant Sears stores to be demolished due to lack of active retailers

Ace Hardware, Centerbridge consider bid for Sears’ home services

New York Post: Sears says it’ll cost them $442M to shutdown 142 stores

Business Insider: After giving execs $25M in bonuses Sears now slashing severance for laid off employees!

Chicago Business Journal: Sears Home Improvement auction canceled due to lack of bids

bankruptcy lawyers already have charged $5 million

Chicago Tribune: Sears racked up nearly $1.9 billion in losses amid bankruptcy

Sears gets court approval for $25 million in bonuses to high-ranking executives

Revised internal forecasts show that Sears Holdings will bleed hundreds of millions of dollars more than expected, during the holidays

Law360: Bankrupt Sears Defends $25M Exec Bonuses

Yahoo Finance: Sears owes money to vendors for everything from lawn mowers to washing machines.

WWD: Sears Now Holds Third Largest Retail Bankruptcy Distinction

Motley Fool: Sears is worth more Dead

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Sears customers told to continue paying for worthless extended warranties

The Real Deal Magazine: Sears hires JLL to sell 500 stores, while weighing takeover bid

Seeking Alpha: Lampert effectively paying nothing for Sears

Fortune: Land’s End rescues itself from Sears

Bloomberg: Lampert’s own ESL hedge fund bids $4.6 Billion to buy Lampert’s own Sear Holdings (sounds like Lampert gets paid no matter what)

Reuters: U.S. government demands Sears Holdings latest bankruptcy court request be denied for being “deficient in several aspects”.

CBC: Retirees sue Eddie Lampert saying the Sears Canada pension fund was intentionally ‘shorted’ to pay-off investors

Phoenix Business Journal: U-Haul shells out millions for 13 shuttered Kmart, Sears stores

The Guardian: Laid-off Sears workers left with nothing – and they say wealthy bosses are to blame

Despite swearing that Sears Hometown stores will not be shutdown due to the Sears Holdings bankruptcy, a new round of Sears Hometown Store (by mid-January 2019), as well as Kmart store, shutdowns are taking place!

ALABAMA:  The Arab Sears Hometown Store, the Clanton Sears Hometown Store, the Fort Payne Sears Hometown Store, the Roanoke Sears Hometown Store, the Thomasville Sears Hometown Store and the Valley Sears Hometown Store all shutting down.

ALASKA:  Fairbanks Sears store shutting down after being suddenly sold-off to U-Haul.

ARIZONA: Tucson Kmart in March 2019.

CALIFORNIA: Apple Valley Kmart, Stockton Kmart, Burbank Kmart, Santa Maria Kmart, Auburn Kmart, all by March 2019.  The Manteca and Santa Paula Sears Hometown stores shutting down.  Apple Valley’s Kmart is shutting down after being suddenly sold-off to U-Haul.  Santa Maria’s Kmart is shutting down after being suddenly sold-off to U-Haul.

Santa Barbara Sears; 72 jobs gone by the end of January 2019.

CONNECTICUT: Vernon Kmart in March 2019.

COLORADO:  Sears/Auto Centers in Colorado Springs and Pueblo shutting down between the end of January and March 2019.

Sears Hometown Store in La Junta shutting down.

FLORIDA:  Four more Sears/Auto Centers in The Sunshine State shutting down between January and March 2019.  Fort Walton Beach and Ellenton Kmarts in March 2019.  The Sears Distribution Center in Jacksonville shutting down in April 2019.

Mall owner Sterling Organization shutting down the Pompano Beach Sears store at Pompano Citi Centre mall, by December 16th.  Apparently the mall owner has already rented out the Sears space to two other retailers.

Sears Hometown stores in Clermont and Fernandina Beach shutting down.  Cinco Bayou’s (Fort Walton Beach) Kmart is shutting down after being suddenly sold-off to U-Haul.

GEORGIA: Gainesville Sears/Auto Center between January and March 2019.  Swainsboro Sears Hometown Store shutting down.

ILLINOIS: Fairview Heights and Cherry Valley Sears/Auto Centers between January and March 2019.  Sears Hometown stores in Centralia, Mattoon and Vandalia shutting down.  The Kmarts in Rockford and Springfield shutting down after being suddenly sold-off to U-Haul.

Quincy Kmart; 48 jobs gone by mid-January 2019.

Norridge Kmart; 126 jobs gone by mid-January 2019!

Moline Kmart; 49 jobs gone by mid-January 2019.

Joliet Sears; 87 jobs gone by mid-January 2019.

INDIANA: Peru Kmart in March 2019.  Sears Hometown Store in Bedford shutting down, local news media say the owner is blaming product supply problems for Sears Hometown stores on the Sears Holdings bankruptcy.  Kendallville Sears Hometown shutting down as well.

IOWA: Sioux City Sears/Auto Center between January and March 2019.  Hometown stores in Atlantic and Dubuque shutting down.

Council Bluffs Kmart; 46 jobs gone right after Xmas.

Webster Kmart; 23 jobs gone right after Xmas.

Cherokee Kmart; 26 jobs gone right after Xmas.

HAWAII: Sears customers in Hawaii now wonder who will warranty-repair their Sears bought appliances now that all the remaining local stores are for sale? 

KANSAS: Wichita Sears/Auto Center between January and March 2019.  The Hometown store in Chanute shutting down by mid-January 2019.

KENTUCKY: The Corbin, Madisonville and Monticello Hometown stores shutting down.

LOUISIANA: Metairie Kmart and Sears in March 2019.  Sears Hometowns in Baker and Opelousas shutting down.

MARYLAND: A Kmart in Baltimore, by March 2019.  Salisbury Sears/Auto Center between January and March 2019.

MASSACHUSETTS: Sears Hometown Store in Hadley shutting down.

MICHIGAN: Sears operations in Muskegon and Novi between January and March 2019.  Sears Hometowns in Alpena and Cadillac shutting down.  Kmart in Roseville shutting down after being suddenly sold-off to U-Haul.

MINNESOTA: Bloomington Sears by March 2019.  Rochester Kmart in March 2019.  The Willmar Sears Hometown Store suddenly posted Store Closing sale signs.  Back in October the owner told local news media his store was not shutting down.  But wait, there’s more, Alexandria and Detroit Lakes Hometown stores are also shutting down.

Minnetonka Sears; undisclosed number of people being laid off right after Xmas.

Saint Paul Sears; 1-hundred jobs gone right after Xmas!

MISSISSIPPI: A Kmart in Gulfport, by March 2019.  Sumrall Sears Hometown Store shutting down.

MISSOURI: Crystal City Kmart in March 2019.  Fulton and Rolla Sears Hometowns shutting down.

NEBRASKA: Sears/Auto Centers in Lincoln and Omaha between January and March 2019.  Alliance Kmart in March 2019.  The Sears Hometown Store in Beatrice shutting down, local news media reported that the store manager explained the shutdown is because Sears Hometown ‘corporate’ failed to find a buyer for the store, which has been for sale for the past year-and-a-half.

NEVADA: A Las Vegas Sears/Auto Center between January and March 2019.

Taxpayers about to fund the take-over of a vacant Elko Kmart by the Meridian Pacific and the Elko Institute for Academic Achievement.

NEW JERSEY: Toms River Kmart in March 2019.  Taxpayers about to become the new owners of a vacant Kmart in Rio Grande.  Local news media discovered that a proposed taxpayer funded bond includes $15.7-million USD to buy the vacant Kmart and turn it into a new office building for the Department of Social Services.

The last Sears Hometown Store in the state, in North Cape May, shutting down.

NEW MEXICO: Roswell Kmart shutting down after being suddenly sold-off to U-Haul.

NEW YORK: Rochester Sears/Auto Center between January and March 2019.  Four Kmarts in The Empire State shutting down in March 2019.  Hometown Stores in Geneseo, Hudson and Olean shutting down.  Queensbury Kmart shutting down after suddenly being sold-off to U-Haul.

Saratoga Springs Sears; 33 jobs gone by February 2019.

Huntington Kmart; 76 jobs gone by February 2019.

NORTH CAROLINA: Two Sears/Auto Centers in Durham between January and March 2019.   Aseville, Morganton and Morehead Kmarts by March 2019.  The independently owned Sears store in Marion is shutting down, the owner claims it’s because he’s ready to retire.  The building will be available in January 2019.

Hometown Stores in Brevard and Marion shutting down.

NORTH DAKOTA: Grand Forks Kmart in March 2019.

OHIO: The Springfield Sears/Auto Center shutting down between January and March 2019.   Kmarts in Cleveland and Fostoria, as well as a Sears/Auto Center in Columbus also shutting down by March 2019.  The Piqua Sears store shutting down in February 2019.

The previously undisclosed date of the shutdown of the Sears store in Beavercreek was revealed; 6pm December 9th.

The Coshocton, Delaware, East Liverpool, Saint Marys and Wooster Sears Hometown stores shutting down by mid-January 2019, local news media reports that employees, managers and owners were ordered not to talk about it!

OKLAHOMA: Sears Hometown stores in Eufaula and Mcalester shutting down.

OREGON: Corvallis Kmart in March 2019.  Medford Sears/Auto Center between January and March 2019.

PENNSYLVANIA:  Sears/Auto Centers in Altoona, Greensburg and Lancaster between January and March 2019.  Kmarts in Pittsburgh and Erie shutting down in March 2019.   Kmart’s distribution center (Regional Specialty Center) in Chambersburg suddenly shutdown, 140 people out-o-work “effective immediately”!   Local news media reports that Sears Holdings refuses to comment, nor have they notified state unemployment officials.

Meadville Sears Hometown Store shutting down.  West View (Pittsburgh) Kmart shutting down after suddenly being sold-off to U-Haul.

SOUTH CAROLINA: Sumter Kmart in March 2019.

SOUTH DAKOTA: Rapid City Kmart in March 2019 (the last Kmart in the state).

TENNESSEE: Sears operations in Goodlettsville and Jackson by March 2019.  Kingsport and Sevierville Kmarts in March 2019.  Fayetteville and Harriman Hometown stores shutting down.

TEXAS: Seven Sears ops in The Lone Star State between January and March 2019.  Gun Barrel and Sulphur Springs Sears Hometown stores shutting down.  After 70 years the Victoria Sears store shutting down by mid-January 2019.

VIRGINIA: Charlottesville Sears/Auto Center between January and March 2019.  Hometown stores in Christiansburg and South Hill shutting down.

WASHINGTON: Kennewick Sears/Auto Center between January and March 2019.  A Spokane Kmart shutting down after suddenly being sold-off to U-Haul.

WISCONSIN: Appleton Sears by March 2019.  Oconomowoc Kmart in March 2019.  Atkinson Kmart shutting down after being suddenly sold-off to U-Haul.  Sears Hometown in Marinette shutting down.   A month-and-a-half after swearing to local news media that the Rinelander Sears Hometown Store would not shutdown, the Rinelander Sears Hometown Store is shutting down by mid-January 2019: “This store is great. The people are nice. They’re friendly. Now they need a job.”-Angelic Venegas, Fishman PR

Cudahy Kmart; 75 jobs gone by the end of January 2019.

Sears-Kmart death spiral, November 2018: U.S. POPULATION DEATH SPIRAL BLAMED 

U.S.

Teachers more violent & criminal than students?: Dumbing Down U.S.A., October 2018

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)

Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.

Google Is Teaching Children How to Act Online

Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way?

Incomplete (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes, October 2018:

ALABAMA:  Birmingham based for-profit Education Corporation of America shutting down 17 of its Virginia College campuses across several states due to crashing enrollment, affecting about 8-thousand-5-hundred students who thought a private college was better!  Executives blame a ‘good job market’ for stealing prospective students, but reports say the for-profit system fails to meet academic standards.  Virginia College students race to finish degrees before campuses close

West Alabama mom threatened teacher, kicked school resource officer 

Struggling Sumter schools face more questions

ARIZONA: After five decades Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving now chapter 11 bankruptcy busted.

Education board rebuffs Christian-centric academic standards

Parents spent $700K in taxpayer funded school voucher money on beauty supplies!

ARKANSAS: Waiver sought on dismissal of teachers in Little Rock

At-risk kids swell Arkansas truancy rate

teacher fired after arrest in sex case

CALIFORNIA: Conduent Education Services eliminating 18 jobs in Long Beach, a couple of days after Xmas, and then an additional nine jobs eliminated by the end of January 2019.

Former San Diego high school student who claimed sexual abuse by a teacher settles for taxpayer funded $400,000

Los Angeles Unified School District will force taxpayers to pay $5 million to settle one sex crime lawsuit

University of Southern California to Pay taxpayer funded $215 Million Over Sex Abuse

campaign for state superintendent costs more than most Senate races. 

COLORADO: University of Northern Colorado warning of layoffs and forced early retirements due to failed efforts to dig themselves out of a $10-million USD hole.

Weld County teacher on leave for allegedly sending inappropriate messages to student

CONNECTICUT: teacher’s aide accused of sexual assault had similar incident in another state

DELAWARE: teachers’ union boss resigns over old blog posts

High school football official receives death threat

FLORIDA:  Lawsuit claims prep school football players were inappropriately touched

High School Teacher Arrested, Charged With Distribution of Child Sexual Abuse Video

Fashion teacher faces more than 353 charges

teacher suspended without pay for helping non-English-speaking students take standardized math test

GEORGIA: Savannah State University warning of mass layoffs due to what I call DSS: “…our enrollment has declined for two consecutive years, and a drop in enrollment means a decrease in tuition, fee and state-allocated revenue. This has resulted in a budget reduction for our current fiscal year. We also are preparing for reductions in state funding that will impact the next two budget cycles.”-President Cheryl Dozier

Transgender policy in Georgia school assault case

choir teacher accused of sexual battery 

So much for gun control as Student stabs teacher with 8-inch butcher knife! 

GUAM: Diploma scam linked to enrollment drop

investigation of profanity screaming teacher

High school teacher charged with ‘theft by deception’ and drug possession

HAWAII:  Teacher arrested for alleged assault

‘Christian’ school pays $65M to 32 sex abuse victims

IDAHO:  New numbers show that after seven years of trying, taxpayer funded Idaho education has failed to improved

Trial for teacher accused of feeding live puppy to turtle, in front of students, postponed

Boise School District’s water system full of lead

ILLINOIS:  Parents reject ‘Bring your own Computer to School’ policy

Schools offer professional development for parents

teacher charged with attempted murder

INDIANA: Driver charged with reckless homicide in crash at school bus stop

Two teachers found dead (murder-suicide?)

school district supplies gun safes 

‘Very sad day’ at Valparaiso Law School

IOWA:  Private Simpson College eliminating 13 jobs (the second layoff in 2018) and eliminating its art program due to what I call DSS: “The higher education field is changing and tightening. Iowa has a very competitive academic field.”-President Jay Simmons

historically high suicide rates

Teacher in Blackface at Party (oh my gawd, it’s the end of the  world!). But wait, nobody got upset about nationally recognized TV weatherman in Whiteface, especially after same nationally recognized weatherman criticized another TV personality for pointing out hypocrisy of condemning Blackface?

Federal court rules that Iowa’s Special Ed policies are wrong

Finally, Iowa City gets rid of solitary confinement ‘padded cells’ for grade school students

KANSAS: Worsening Teacher Shortage 

Wichita mom says teacher cyber-bullied kindergartner

KENTUCKY: Former Teacher accused of ‘Predatory Sexual Grooming’

graduation disconnect

LOUISIANA: elementary school teacher accused of child rape

Substitute teacher had sex with teen in classroom

Sexual comments, unsolicited hugs: Gretna teacher arrested

Elementary teacher arrested for possession of alcohol in class 

MAINE: University of Southern Maine offered students credit for protesting federal Supreme Court nominee!

failure to implement proficiency-based education

Elementary School Teacher Disappears

coach’s tirade against student goes online

MARYLAND: teen arrested after making threats against high school

After Player’s Death, Coach and Athletic Director Keep Their Jobs

music teacher faces rape charges

ACLU joins challenge to Prince George’s summer school 

MICHIGAN:  Oregon based KinderCare Education laying off 43 people in Troy due to KinderCare’s takeover of Troy based rival Rainbow Child Care Center.

Substitute teacher contractor suddenly shuts down, schools scramble for substitute teachers

University of Michigan gets $20M to design Israeli made robots!

relationships — not money — are the key to improving schools

MINNESOTA: University of Minnesota reviews Greek policy after student death

teacher on leave after tweeting “kill Kavanaugh?”

Nearly 100 School Districts Awarded taxpayer funded Anti-Violence Grants

Political candidate to return Globe University officials’ donations after school was revealed to be fraudulent

School Board Votes Unanimously to Terminate Special Ed teacher under investigation for cocaine possession

MISSISSIPPI: Sanctions against high school band after questionable program

Teacher shortage leads to accreditation trouble 

High School teacher investigated for improper relationship 

MISSOURI: Day care teachers accused of organizing preschool-age fight club 

teacher indicted for child enticement

Former teacher wins lawsuit claiming the Kansas City Public School system maintains a “hostile work environment”!

MONTANA: University of Montana forced 22 faculty to promise to ‘leave’ by 2021, in an effort to save $5-million USD.

Taxpayers forced to settle with student ‘sex’ victim of high school teacher

Charges dropped against teen for school threats

Social media threat shuts down White Sulphur Springs schools

NEBRASKA: Superintendent in school lunch kangaroo chili incident resigns

Chef fired after serving kangaroo meat to students (I don’t understand, people in Australia eat it, isn’t there a food crisis going on?)

NEVADA: Elementary teacher sentenced to 20 years for forcing high school students to have sex with her

special ed director, fired for ‘bullying’, accuses school principals of breaking law

Comparison of teachers with other jobs makes unrealistic conclusion

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Kids with anxiety so epidemic that Milton Town School District conducted a Parenting the Anxious Child event

Substitute Teacher Shortage Affects Districts Statewide

NEW JERSEY: teacher accused of sex with 13-year-old

teacher faces suspension after federal fraud indictment over health care claims

school gym closed due to mercury poisoning

NEW MEXICO:  path to higher education is changing

NEW YORK:  Without warning the 47 years old non-profit Cohoes Community Center shutdown, 72 people suddenly jobless, parents in shock as they were called to pick-up their kids, the center is under investigation to find out why it has almost half-a-million dollars of debt.  It was revealed that Molloy College suddenly canceled its contract with food service provider Compass Group-Chartwells, 26 jobs gone.  It was revealed that The Research Foundation for the State University of New York lost a contract, 74 jobs gone days after Xmas.

Bonuses of Up to $8000 to Teach in Struggling New York Schools

New York City teacher salaries increase

NORTH CAROLINA: Bullying Led to Fatal Shooting of Student 

Why can’t North Carolina kids read? 

NORTH DAKOTA: Native American Graduation Rate Improves

OHIO:  High School teacher indicted on sex charges

Junior High School art teacher resigns due to undisclosed complaints 

the demise of an online charter school is roiling Ohio politics

desperate Ohio State University launches first-of-its-kind comprehensive e-sports (video game playing) program

Ohio schools don’t have  air conditioning?

OKLAHOMA: School Support Staffers Work Extra Jobs (gee, like a lot of other people)

Audit reveals how superintendent wasted taxpayer funds on himself

teacher under investigation for allegedly sending inappropriate messages

Governor’s Race Pits Teachers Against Oil and Gas

OREGON: Still struggling Oregon Shakespeare Festival laid off 16 people and cut work hours for the rest, due to “significant financial losses” as a result of being smoked-out by never ending wildfires surrounding the venue.

appointee delays release of school ratings

Governor orders release of school performance ratings

Taxpayer funded website to combat school absenteeism?

PENNSYLVANIA:  delay of high school graduation test, again

test scores remain flat 

costs for special education outpacing taxpayer funding

Entire school district shuts down due to transportation problems!

Superintendent denies spying on board members

Female christian school teacher joins growing list of men accused of sex crimes

PUERTO RICO: Puerto Rico’s First Charter School

SOUTH CAROLINA:  drunk University of South Carolina students overwhelming Emergency Rooms and causing mayhem

South Carolina students bomb the ACT, falling behind Mississippi

Despite students failing the ACT, teachers are demanding to be given the majority of the state government budget surplus

Student dies after shooting at high school

SOUTH DAKOTA:  superintendents report rise in school threats

RHODE ISLAND: Taxpayer funded Naval Undersea Warfare Center paying 143 taxpayer funded employees to attend the University of Rhode Island full time. Another 139 will be paid to attend universities part time.

Bus driver strike shuts down schools?

School buses set on fire

TENNESSEE: After 71 years the private Fountainhead College of Technology shutting down because they can’t compete with “free education offered by the state of Tennessee” (just remember, it ain’t really ‘free’, it’s paid for by raping taxpayers).

Top scoring (ah em) teacher accused of sex crimes

A ‘christian’ student kills herself at a public school, her ‘christian’ mother says it’s because the government won’t let god into taxpayer funded schools!

TEXAS:  Crosby Independent School District eliminating 129 jobs, supposedly due to a “financial emergency” caused by the incompetence of former administrators who threw taxpayer money at too many construction projects and hired too many employees!  God’s own Hardin-Simmons University shutting down dozens of undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as shutting down five campus extensions, due to The Rapture, I mean crashing enrollments (DSS).

Texas property owners forced to pay lion’s share of education funding!

Texas might lose 33-million in federal taxpayer dollars, for special education funding, because fed’s say Texas special education is a failure

Despite 6 probation violations, teacher who struck autistic student somehow avoids jail

sharp increase in special education students

More proof it’s a police state: High school students must take class on how to behave when pulled over by a cop, or else they can’t graduate

substitute teacher accused of touching multiple elementary students….claims he was raised in ‘touchy feely family’

Teacher Accused of Drunken Sex with Her Students 

teacher charged with improper relationship 

UTAH: Ex-boyfriend kills University of Utah student on campus

Why don’t more college students teach? It’s more than the money

‘Men’s Week’ posters at Utah school sparks backlash (but if somebody tore down a women’s week poster there’d be holy hell to pay)

VERMONT: Taxpayers forced to pay $31-million to encourage high school graduates to go to college!

Vermont State Colleges System sees continued decline in enrollment

VIRGINIA: teacher pleads guilty in ‘celebgate’ case

Missing High School Teacher’s Body Recovered

 High school student accused of sexual misconduct blames the school

Richmond Public Schools has the worst graduation rate 

University of Virginia bans ten people

WASHINGTON: Art Institute of Seattle suddenly laid off ten people, leaving just three instructors on the full time payroll!  Tacoma Public Schools conducted its first ever layoffs due a budget deficit of $23.4-million USD, and a strike by teachers demanding mo-money, 19 positions suddenly eliminated: “I don’t want the public to think that we’re going to cut this money and everything’s going to be the same. It’s not.”-Superintendent Carla Santorno

Supreme Court upholds most of charter school law

WASHINGTON DC:  Washington Ballet is struggling with empty seats and a $3 million debt 

WEST VIRGINIA:  Special Education teacher pleads not guilty to child abuse

WISCONSIN:  ’emergency license’ teachers are running classrooms

substitute teacher charged with sexual assault

WYOMING: The grade school with only one student

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., September 2018:  “PERCEIVED THREAT”

Business/Economics

“Many jobs will be….eliminated”: U.S.industrial/mining/logistics layoffs, September 2018

Video

Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss/shutdown announcements made in September 2018.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ALASKA: Alyeska Pipeline Service Company warned “Many jobs will be modified, and some eliminated, at Alyeska and in some contractor companies.”

ARIZONA: SCA tissue factory in Bellemont closing, 120 jobs lost

ARKANSAS: Iconic Acme Brick Company shutting down a factory in Fort Smith, blaming the company’s restructuring on “ever changing demands of the market”.

CALIFORNIA: Disney laying off an undisclosed number of Consumer Products workers, blaming it on a ‘partial’ merger with 21st Century Fox and a crash in revenues of 8%.  Silgan Containers issued yet another WARN, this time 49 jobs in  Sacramento gone before Thanksgiving. In Berkeley, after 84 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Pacific Steel Casting factory suddenly put up for auction, having never recovered from the 2008 ‘recession’.  Extreme Logistics Solutions issued a shutdown WARN  for its Victorville operations, 56 jobs gone right after Xmas. Peninsula Packaging issued a shutdown WARN for its Hollister ops, 156 jobs gone before Thanksgiving!  Construction company Brinderson issued a layoff WARN for ops in Martinez, 98 jobs gone before Thanksgiving.  Golden State Overnight Delivery Service issued yet another WARN, this time 67 jobs in  Santa Clarita gone by October. Florida based door maker Masonite issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Stockton, 131 jobs gone in March 2019! Florida based manufacturer Jabil issued shutdown WARNs for two California factories, 435 jobs gone before Thanksgiving!

Tesla ‘Delivery Logistics Hell’

COLORADO:  Oil company Balusa Holdings now chapter 7 bankrupt busted and liquidating, claiming it made no revenues in 2018.

FLORIDA: Essentra Packaging shutting down ops in Largo, 81 jobs gone.  Illinois based Atkore International also shutting down ops in Largo, 101 jobs gone!

GEORGIA: Voith Paper Fabrics eliminating 53 jobs. 

INDIANA: Michigan based Federal-Mogul Motorparts shutting down a distribution center in Indianapolis, 83 jobs gone by Spring 2019.  Cardinal Metal suddenly laid off 79 people in Kokomo, due to the sudden loss of a “key customer”.  LGSTX Distribution Services suddenly shutdown its Indianapolis location, 256 jobs gone due to the loss of its contract with United States Postal Service!  Quality Packaging Specialists issued a shutdown WARN for its Mooresville location, 85 jobs gone right after Xmas.

KENTUCKY:  Berry shutting down its films, laminates, and adhesives factory in Augusta, 330 jobs gone probably in connection with Berry taking over a competitor earlier this year, or possibly due to reduced orders by Proctor & Gamble, or both!

MINNESOTA: Metal maker SSAB Minnesota laid off ten people.

MISSISSIPPI: Ethanol maker Ergon shutting down its factory in Vicksburg, about 30 jobs gone by Xmas due to crashing profit margins.

NEW YORK: Shoe Maker P.W. Minor eliminating at least 45 jobs in Batavia, saying it’s the only way to keep the shoe factory open (P.W. Minor also issued a WARN of potential shutdown affecting 82 jobs).  Once U.S. based beauty products company Avon shutting down its factory in Rye, 105 jobs gone by May 2019!    Bigname Commerce issued a shutdown WARN for its stationary factory in Amityville, 41 jobs gone before Xmas due to consolidation.  State Department of Environmental Conservation ordered Sand Land Corporation to halt mining ops in Noyack.

NORTH CAROLINA:  Product Quest suddenly shutdown its beauty care factories in Kannapolis and Concord, and went chapter 11 bankrupt busted, 296 jobs gone!   Germany owned Daimler Trucks-Thomas Built Buses suddenly laid off 115 people, blaming it on “the cyclical nature of our business”!

OHIO: PTC Alliance could see 94 layoffs in November

Taxpayer funded Wright Patterson Air Force Base held a Life Cycle Industry Days presentation as part of “Government and Industry better focusing our collective energies ‘out-innovating’ our opponents”, including a focus on video games and U.S. military sales to other countries.  Also, on 11-12 September taxpayer funded Defense Logistics Agency held a free class at the Defense Supply Center Columbus, to teach almost 50 civilian business how to sell to the taxpayer raping government.   

Also, the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime revealed that it spent more than 120-million tax dollars on small businesses in Ohio, just in the first three quarters of fiscal year 2018!

OREGON: Whew, what’s that smell?  Schmidt’s Deodorant shutting down its factory in Portland, 52 U.S. jobs gone as a result of being taken over by British empire United Kingdom based Unilever.

PENNSYLVANIA: ArcelorMittal Plate issued a layoff WARN, 17 jobs in Conshohocken gone before Xmas.  Uniform maker for the ‘public safety’ sector Elbeco issued a shutdown WARN for its Frackville factory, 71 jobs gone before Xmas. CEVA Logistics issued a shutdown WARN for its Bedford location, 92 jobs gone before Thanksgiving.  Taxpayer funded DLA (Defense Logistics Agency) Troop Support Clothing and Textiles held a National Industries for the Blind’s annual Textile Apparel Group conference on 06 September in Philadelphia.

TENNESSEE: Fred’s Pharmacy shutting down its distribution center in Memphis, 80 jobs gone. 

VIRGINIA: 

The taxpayer funded Defense Logistics Agency staged 115 trailers at Fort A.P. Hill in preparations for Hurricane Florence.  The DLA also staged emergency equipment in North Carolina and Alabama.

WISCONSIN: ACCO shutting down its paper clip factory in Pleasant Prairie, 54 remaining jobs gone due to consolidation ops (in May 150 people were laid off without warning). Can maker Silgan Containers issued a layoff WARN, 30 jobs in Plover gone before Thanksgiving.

U.S. INDUSTRIAL/MINING/LOGISTICS SHUTDOWNS, August 2018: “A 45-PERCENT DECLINE”

Idaho, Technology

“insurmountable challenges”: U.S. hi-tech/communications breakdown, September 2018

Video

Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction and chicanery announcements in September 2018:

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Japan based Honda begins recalling vehicles due to software failures. 

GM-Chevy recalls vehicles because computer controlled steering can fail

Ford recalls pickups because seat belts catch fire?

High-tech features mean higher car repair bills

Streaming TV Prices Are Marching Higher

WHY DO TECH ELITES STOP THEIR OWN KIDS USING CELLPHONES?

ALABAMA: Montgomery based TV station owner Raycom Media warning of downsizing starting in November, as a result of merging with a competitor.

CALIFORNIA: San Rafael based video game maker Telltale Games suddenly laid off 225 people (most its employees) due to “a year marked by insurmountable challenges”!  Video game maker Carbine Studios suddenly laid off 47 people in Aliso Viejo.  San Francisco based bitcoin trader Kraken suddenly laid off 57 people, but denies its going to shutdown. The country’s largest online thrift store operation, ThredUp, shutting down its San Leandro ops, 118 jobs gone the week before Xmas!   Augmented reality products company Meta suddenly laid off 88 people in San Mateo.  Credit.org/Springboard Solutions finally notified state unemployment administrators that it shutdown its Riverside ops, and killed 214 jobs back in July!  CoreLogic issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Los Angeles, 60 jobs gone before Thanksgiving.  Translation company United Language Group issued a shutdown WARN for its Burbank office, 85 jobs gone before Thanksgiving.  CentralSquare Technologies issued a shutdown WARN for its San Diego operations, 144 jobs gone in March 2019!  Qualcomm eliminating 94 jobs in San Diego, right before Thanksgiving. Semiconductor manufacturer support company Entegris issued a shutdown WARN for its San Diego location, taking place right after Xmas.  Online based home loan company Renovate America eliminating 83 jobs in San Diego by the end of October.  ‘Cloud’ based investment company Addepar issued a layoff WARN for its ops in Mountain View, 20 jobs gone before Thanksgiving.  VeriFone eliminated 69 jobs in San Jose.  Online ‘dollar’ store Hollar issued a layoff WARN for its ops in Commerce, 23 jobs gone right after Xmas.

Tesla founder Elon Musk accused of fraud by federal government!

Elon Musk co-founded PayPal Blacklists Infowars for ‘Promoting Hate’

Instagram co-founders resign in latest Facebook executive exit

James Woods locked out of Twitter

ADOBE TO BUY MARKETO FOR $4.75 BILLION

On 04SEP2018, in San Diego the U.S. Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Innovation Awards honored three Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) teams for their ability to modify video war-games to actually kill fellow humans!  Developers of the Augmented Reality System for Topside Gun Crew Command and Control (aka GunnAR) were able to “… very quickly modify a commercial DAQRI headset software and build out the first iteration of the heads-up display (HUD)……It wasn’t long after that we were able to participate in a pier-side demonstration, later followed by two live fire demonstrations.”

FLORIDA: Wisconsin based financial services technology company Fiserv Incorporated eliminating 58 fiserv.forum jobs in Lake Mary.  Comcast issued a WARN, 86 jobs in Sarasota gone by Xmas. Switzerland based robotics company ABB issued a WARN, 22 jobs in Coral Springs gone by Xmas.  Pomeroy (now Getronics) issued a WARN, 79 jobs in Tampa gone by February 2019.

GEORGIA: CNN Ratings Collapse, Losing To Nickelodeon And Fox News 

IDAHO: Connexions Loyalty issued a WARN for its Boise ops, 175 jobs gone right before Thanksgiving!

ILLINOIS:  Local news media reporting that Nokia is eliminating 500 jobs in Naperville, between now and Xmas!  Nokia would not confirm the layoff numbers but did confirm there will be layoffs, at one time Nokia’s Naperville ops employed 1-thousand-8-hundred people.  Technology deployment services company Watcher Incorporated eliminating 85 jobs in Macon County, by Thanksgiving.

KENTUCKY: Gannett Satellite Information Network laying off 73 people in Louisville.

MASSACHUSETTS: Switzerland based TE Connectivity eliminating 86 jobs in Worcester, and shutting down electronic cable manufacturing in the city by March 2019.

MICHIGAN:  LenderLive Network issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Madison Heights, at least 45 online loan processor jobs gone before Thanksgiving, due to consolidation of operations.  More taxpayer funded hi-tech video games for the military as the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) hosted a NATO technology demo at the Keweenaw Research Center (KRC) to showcase mobility prediction software, called Next-Generation NATO Reference Mobility Model (NG-NRMM) Development.  It’s for predicting problems with logistical ground transportation of military supplies: “We’ve digitized every pebble in the proving ground here into a database and they can have that database. So, they can drive that vehicle through the terrain in the computer and try to predict the mobility, as we call it, of that vehicle going through that rough terrain.”-Jay Meldrum, KRC

MINNESOTA: Optical inspection tool maker S-T Industries eliminating 60 jobs in Saint James, date yet to be determined.

NEBRASKA:  Omaha based ‘health’ food store, and online site, Eat Fit Go Healthy Foods-EatFitGo.com is now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, and shutting down two brick-n-mortar locations, in the hopes of fostering “long-term success.” 

NEW YORK: NYC based Verizon suddenly laid off 50 people due to a sudden consolidation of video production.

SiriusXM to buy Pandora for $3.5 billion

NORTH CAROLINA: “This new software is amazing! The speed is mind-blowing! The parking heading colors are cool. The auto-execute feature is a game changer.”-First Sergeant Alex Joy,  3rd Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment (3-27 FAR) Fort Bragg, about the new M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) Software System Suite Version 8.0

Video of HIMARS strike in Afghanistan, 09SEP2018:

OKLAHOMA: GateHouse Media buys The Oklahoman Media Company

PENNSYLVANIA: Fox will sell Sky stake to Comcast for about $15 billion

TEXAS: Dell is considering going public once again

VIRGINIA: Pentagon based U.S. Army is calling for military vehicles to be updated with common hardware/software, calling the open source vehicle program Common Infrastructure Architecture.

WASHINGTON: Insurance software solutions company Vertafore shutdown its office in Bothell, 50 jobs gone due to moving its HQ to Colorado.

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, August 2018: “UNPRECEDENTED DECLINES” “UNEXPECTED AND UNFORESEEABLE”