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“the rise of big box stores”: U.S. Food Crisis, July 2018

Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of July, 2018:

Farmers are using artificial intelligence to force cows to be more productive

Goldfish Crackers recalled over salmonella 

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ALASKA: We can’t survive more cuts to Alaska king-salmon quota

ARIZONA: In Tucson, after only ten months Classic Spaghetti Western Steakhouse shutdown, the owner saying that even though the food is great the sales are not, and he has other restaurants to worry about.

CALIFORNIA: DW Berry Farms suddenly laid off 380 strawberry pickers, apparently without warning!  The J.M. Smucker Company issued a shutdown WARN for its San Francisco ops, 1-hundred jobs gone by Halloween! Apple Gilroy-Apple By The Bay-Applebee’s issued a shutdown WARN for its Milpitas location, 51 jobs gone in September.   Ingredient provider Ingredion issued a layoff WARN for its Stockton ops, 65 jobs gone by October.  Upscale restaurant Hakkasan issued a shutdown WARN for its West Hollywood location, 99 jobs gone by the end of September.  P.F. Changs issued a shutdown WARN for its El Segundo restaurant, 94 jobs gone by the end of September.    In Vista, after 40 years popular Village Cafe shutdown so the owners can retire.  In Bakersfield, the Sweet Factory shutdown its Vally Plaza Mall location.  Struggling Chipotle shutdown its San Louis Opisbo, Higuera Sreet, location.  Marie Callender’s shutdown its 40 years old ‘flagship’ restaurant in Los Angeles, because the landlord demanded a new lease that doubled the rent!  In San Francisco, after 28 years Castro’s Harvest Ranch Market shutdown, the owner blaming lack of sales and greedy landlords:  “If you can’t make any money, there’s no sense in keeping it open. We did our best and we negotiated with the landlord, and it didn’t work out.”-Gilles Desaulniers

FLORIDA: In Deerfield Beach, after 17 years Marlee’s Diner suddenly shutdown after failed restaurant management deals forced the owner to sell the property to a developer.  Evil Cerberus Capital owned Albertsons-Safeway issued a mass layoff WARN, 452 grocery workers jobless by the end of August!  Food service contractor Aramark issued a mass layoff WARN, 428 jobs in Miami gone in August!  After 34 years Betty’s Laughing Horse Tavern shutdown, the property was sold.

IDAHO: Chipotle shutdown locations in Twin Falls (open less than one year) and Chubbuck (open less than two years).

Farm worker impaled by baling spike

Future Treasure Valley farmers face a tough road

Six wildfires ignited in Boise region, on July 4 holiday

Idaho-based Lamb Weston trying to deliver fries that stay crispy longer

Quigley Farm annexed for major property re-development (gentrification)

ILLINOIS: In Chicago, Howells & Hood Restaurant issued a shutdown WARN, 133 jobs gone by October due to the business being sold!

INDIANA: In Newburgh, after being brought back to life in 2014 Pizza Chef shutdown for good because the owner wants to try a different food venue. In Evansville, after four years Cisse’s Bread Bakery shutting down in August “because of the time the bakery is taking away from family.”  Grocery store Wesselman’s shutting down when the inventory is gone, blaming ‘big box’ competition. Also in Evansville, Schaum’s Pizzeria suddenly shutdown. In Greenwood, after 45 years Hampton’s Market shutdown due to “the rise of big box stores”Monarch Beverage issued a shutdown WARN for its Wine Division, 94 jobs gone by the end of August.

KENTUCKY: In Owensboro, after 44 “fun” years The Bakers Rack shutdown, the owner said she wants to “go out on top”.

MAINE: Border Patrol Stops Canadian Fishermen in Disputed Waters

MARYLAND: Giant Food shutting down its store in Windsor Mill by mid-August, calling the store “outdated” but also admitting they have too many newer grocery stores in the area.

Some residents will pay more for water

MASSACHUSETTS: Without warning, the new owners of America’s oldest candy company (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) shutdown its Necco factory in Revere: “Round Hill Investments was very excited to acquire Necco’s historic brands and to be part of their national resurgence. After careful engagement and consideration, however, the firm decided to sell the brands to another national confection manufacturer and today announced the closure of the operations in Revere, Massachusetts.”

In Boston, after four years restaurant Bisito shutdown its Burlington Mall location, local news media say its the third restaurant in the mall to shutdown this year.  In Worcester, after 89 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Mrs. Mack’s Bakery shutdown, the owner saying her health problems might force her to move back to Ireland.

MICHIGAN: Ken’s Fruit Market shutdown its two years old Wyoming location to “focus on our other locations” because “this one isn’t doing as well”.  In Detroit, after 19 years restaurant Andiamo shutdown, the owner saying in the past six years too many new restaurants have opened, meaning the local restaurant market can’t support them all.

MINNESOTA:  Coburn’s-Save-a-Lot Food Stores shutdown its Saint Cloud, West Division Street, location due to low ‘customer count’ and the fact the company is spending money remodeling other Save-a-Lot stores in the area. Coborn’s also suddenly shutdown its grocery store in Montevideo, 59 jobs gone.  In Duluth, Grizzly’s Wood Fired Cooking shutdown with short notice, the restaurant and a car dealership on the property are being torn down after the city approved a redevelopment plan.

MISSOURI: In Saint Louis, the owner of Porana Pasta shutdown his Washington Avenue location, blaming crashing sales on declining activity at the nearby convention center.

NEVADA: A 15 years old Dairy Queen in Northwest Reno shutdown, the aged owners (who claim they’ve worked with Dairy Queen since they were teenagers) say that for health reasons they’ve been advised to reduce their stress by reducing the number of restaurants they own. Local news media said the shutdown came as a shock to the employees.

China builds giant indoor vertical farm just east of Las Vegas 

NEW JERSEY: In Parsippany, Cups Frozen Yogurt That’s Hot shutdown.  Italy owned food service company HMS Host issued a WARN for its ops in Trenton, 287 jobs gone by mid-September!

NEW YORK:  In Albany, after 42 years, and failed attempts to sell the property, Grandma’s Pies & Restaurant shutdown.  In Great Neck, after only four months Ren Wen Noddle Factory shutdown, the owners saying “Based on your feedback, we will be temporarily closing this location to readjust”.  In Larchmont, after 40 years La Riserva shutdown. In NYC, after less than two years the pro-veggie restaurant Hemlock shutdown.  Gourmet Management issued a shutdown WARN for its NYC Penn Station TGI Fridays, KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Haagen Dazs, Tim Hortons & Beer Cart Restaurants, 92 jobs gone by mid-October due to lost lease.  Chipotle issued a shutdown WARN for its NYC corporate office, to happen between now and March 2019.  Also in NYC, Union Square Catering Facility blamed the bad economy for issuing a shutdown WARN for its The Coffee Shop, 150 jobs gone by mid-October!  Food service contractor Compass Group issued a shutdown WARN, 84 jobs gone due to losing a contract with Credit Suisse.

NORTH CAROLINA: Greensboro base The Fresh Market announced it will shutdown 15 stores across the U.S. “for a variety of reasons unique to each retail location”.  Four years old The Fresh Market store in Charlotte on the shutdown hit list.

607 poisonous plants of North Carolina

NORTH DAKOTA: State sues Dakota Access oil pipeline over farmland ownership

ethanol plant to explore use of barley feedstock

ND State University accused of negligence after dozens of farm research animals were crushed to death! (the future farmers of America?)

OHIO: In Mason, after 56 years Angilos Pizza shutdown, the owners saying “Mom and I are tired, we work full time jobs and run Angilo’s.”  In Mount Adams, after 55 years Celestial Steakhouse forced to shutdown after the landlord suddenly leased the location to a competing food venue!

OREGON:  In Salem, after 22 years Croissant & Company shutdown after failed attempts to sell, and even give away, the restaurant!

Wheat Farmers Fight to Stop Substation Fire

fire crushes wheat farmers during bountiful harvest

Feral pig population plummets

PENNSYLVANIA: In Allentown, two Grain & Centro restaurants were shutdown with short notice, it’s blamed on the “challenging” design of area, local news media pointed out the restaurants were located in the failed Neighborhood Improvement Zone where dozens of restaurants have come and gone since 2014. J.M. Smucker Company issued shutdown WARNs for its Sewickley and Meadville operations, 131 jobs gone by between the end of August and the end of September!  France owned food service company Sodexo issued a shutdown WARN for its St. Luke’s Hospital Allentown Campus ops, 67 jobs gone by the end of September.

SOUTH CAROLINA: In Greenville, DishOut Cafe & Catering shutdown because the owners were making more money with their new taco joint.

SOUTH DAKOTA: Lawsuit over prison food going to court

New breed of salmon to be stocked

North American Manure Expo

TENNESSEE: On Oak Ridge Highway, after five years Archer’s BBQ shutdown due to lack of profits, the owners saying “businesses have to be profitable to survive.”  The Fresh Market store in Hendersonville shutting down, 61 jobs gone by August.

TEXAS: In Houston, after 72 years Kegg’s Candies suddenly shutdown its retail store, as well as its chocolate factory, due to the “slow economy”.  Also in Houston, El Tiempo Cantina forced to shutdown its Montrose location so that apartments can be built.  In Austin, after 65 years The Frisco (the last of the Frisco Shop/Night Hawk chain of restaurants) shutdown. In Beaumont, after three years Wood Fired Grill-Backyard Dance Hall shutdown, the owner blamed lack of  sales on the current “entertainment and dining landscape”.

UTAH: McDonald’s soda spiked with synthetic heroin

VIRGINIA: In Richmond, after 22 years Nacho Mama’s shutting down in August, the property has been sold.

WASHINGTON: Farm equipment plows into Fairfield fitness center

Washington DC: financial aid offer to farmers criticized as tax-funded ‘welfare’

WEST VIRGINIA: CKE Restaurant Holdings shutdown its Hardee’s in Oceana due to lack of sales, local news media said local customers were interested only in the breakfast menu.

WISCONSIN: After less that two years of operations, New Jersey based Schuman Cheese suddenly laid off 51 people from its ‘new’ Imperia Foods factory in Fall Creek, local news media blames it on automation.  The Fresh Market issued a shutdown WARN for its stores in Fox Point and Brookfield, 102 jobs gone in August!

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, JUNE 2018: “A THOUSAND PAPER CUTS”

“Get your stuff it’s time to leave.”: U.S. industrial/mining/logistics layoffs, July 2018

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

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

The Washington Post: Millions of educated, experienced workers have been tossed aside

ALABAMA: Hyundai plant could be first shut down under tariff plan

ALASKA: Oil giant reports 2018 profit, compared to big 2017 loss

ConocoPhillips Swaps Assets With BP, Expands Alaska Base

CALIFORNIA: No more Barbie or Hot Wheels? El Segundo based Mattel announced plans to eliminate at least 2-thousand-2-hundred toy jobs around the world, due to massive crashing sales possibly due to the death of retailer Toys R Us! Already Mattel laid off 140 people at its El Segundo HQ! Furniture company Minson Corporation issued a shutdown WARN for its Montebello ops, 113 jobs gone by September!  Freight Handlers Incorporated (FHI) issued a shutdown WARN for its Riverside ops, 115 jobs gone by September! Recycler Aqua Metals issued a shutdown WARN for its Alameda location, 12 jobs gone in September.  Golden State Overnight Delivery Service issued layoff WARNs for its Gardena and Santa Ana ops, 138 jobs gone mid-September!  ITW Bay Area Label issued a shutdown WARN for its San Jose ops, 54 jobs gone by October.  MV Transportation eliminating 135 jobs in Visalia, by the end of September!

COLORADO: Drillers Fuel Record Oil Output in Rush to Finish Wells

FLORIDA: C&S Wholesale Services eliminating 319 jobs in Orlando by October!

IDAHO:  Bankrupt and suddenly dead Indiana based Koontz-Wagner Custom Controls suddenly laid off 51 people at its now dead Caldwell ops.

ILLINOIS: Iconic cosmetics maker/seller Avon (now known as New Avon) just sold-off its last U.S. factory, in Morton Grove-Chicago, to a French company, 3-hundred to 4-hundred jobs affected!  The French company will make products for British empire United Kingdom owned Walgreens-Boots Alliance.  One of the last U.S. plastic model kit and RC toy manufacturers/distributors, Hobbico, officially chapter 7 bankrupt dead, resulting in iconic Revell kits being 100% German owned.  In Chicago, MW Industries issued a shutdown WARN, 49 jobs gone by Xmas.  In Aurora, Jacobson Warehouse issued a shutdown WARN, 134 jobs gone due to consolidation operations!  Stack-On Products issued shutdown WARNs for its operations in Wauconda and McHenry, 153 jobs gone in October!

INDIANA:  In Bristol, Diversified Machine warning 5-hundred employees of layoffs due to losing a contract with Ford!   Chapter 7 bankrupt and suddenly dead Koontz-Wagner Custom Controls suddenly laid off 104 people (according to official WARN) at its now dead South Bend factory and HQ, one employee told local news media there was no warning: “No one knew about it to 9 o’ clock this morning when we had a meeting and they told us ‘We are shutting the doors. Get your stuff it’s time to leave.'”-Ron Randolph, employee for 16 years

Japan based Wire-Maker TOKUSEN Says it Will Idle Clark County Operation

IOWA: Construction industry tool maker Black Cat Wear Parts laid off ten people, blaming it on the tariff war with British empire Canada.  Winnebago Industries eliminating 31 jobs by the end of August.

KENTUCKY: Greeting card maker American Greetings shutting down its factory in Bardstown, more than 250 jobs lost between September 2018 and February 2019!

MASSACHUSETTS: Partly taxpayer funded uniform maker Pepperell Mills now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and liquidating.  Technetics Group shutting down ops in Oxford due to “the current industrial gas turbine market”, 97 jobs lost.

MINNESOTA: United Sports Brands eliminating 20 jobs in Minnetonka, by November.

MISSOURI: Lawnmower engine maker Briggs and Stratton cutting production and warning of mass layoffs at its factory in Popular Bluff, in “coming weeks”, due to lack of sales.  Also in Popular Bluff, Mid Continent Nail Corporation cut production by half and laid off 60 people, blaming lack of sales on new tariff wars.

NEW YORK:  Fischer Price laid off 50 people at its HQ, as part of parent company Mattel’s plan to eliminate thousand of jobs globally!  Advanced Motors and Drives issued a layoff WARN for its East Syracuse location, 51 jobs gone between August 2018 and March 2019.  Verrino Construction Services now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to lack of cash caused by lack of sales. Hebeler Process Solutions issued layoff WARNs, at least 60 jobs gone in September due to a sudden loss of sales from a major customer.

NORTH CAROLINA: American Tire Distributors suddenly laid off 1-hundred people because “…the industry is going through its largest change in decades”.  Home furnishings maker Heritage Home Group (Broyhill, Lane, Thomasville, and Drexel Heritage) now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Mattress maker Serta Simmons shutting down its factory in Whitsett, 112 jobs gone by September!

OHIO: Chinese owned (Hong Kong) vacuum cleaner maker TTI Floor Care (Oreck) issued a shutdown WARN for its Glenwillow ops, at least 75 jobs gone starting in September due “to changing business circumstances” forcing the company to consolidate operations.  Germany based Siemens issued a shutdown WARN for its Aero-Derivative Gas Turbine ops, 134 jobs gone “due to conditions within the global energy market”.

OKLAHOMA: Aircraft parts maker NORDAM Group now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to problems with Pratt & Whitney Canada, local news media say NORDAM is the second biggest employer in the state.

U.S. oil production hits 11 million barrels a day

PENNSYLVANIA: ArcelorMittal Plate issued a layoff WARN, 125 people in Conshohocken jobless by September!  Jacobson Warehouse issued a shutdown WARN for its Lancaster ops, 62 jobs gone in September.

SOUTH CAROLINA: Tariffs Imperil BMW in South Carolina

SOUTH DAKOTA: Hultgren Construction now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to lawsuits over a deadly building collapse.

TENNESSEE: TEC Industrial Maintenance & Construction laid off 238 people due to a lost contract!

TEXAS: Bankrupt and suddenly dead Indiana based Koontz-Wagner Custom Controls suddenly laid off 52 people at its now dead Houston ops.

WASHINGTON: Germany based logistics company Arvato issued a shutdown WARN for its Yakima ops, 168 jobs gone by the end of September!

WEST VIRGINIA: MRC Global shutting down its Nitro distribution center, 38 jobs lost to consolidation ops.

Diversified Gas & Oil buys EQT assets

Pinnacle Mine to lay off roughly 90 miners

WISCONSIN: Mayline-Safeco laying off 127 furniture makers in September, as part of plans to shutdown operations at several locations by November! Cooper Power Systems eliminating 52 mechanic jobs by September.  In Waukesha, General Electric (GE) laying off 236 people by shutting down its Distributed Power Facility!

U.S. INDUSTRIAL/MINING/LOGISTICS SHUTDOWNS, JUNE 2018: “GLOBAL RACE TO THE BOTTOM.”

Taxes & New Laws prove it’s no Land of the Free!: U.S. government shenanigans, July 2018

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

It’s ironic that during the month that the independence of the United States was officially declared, a massive amount of new imperialist laws and taxations were made!

04 July 1776:  How Taxes, Tariffs & Tea Led To American Independence

Why is there a lawyer shortage? Maybe it’s because too many Americans have become Dumbed Down!  “It’s an intense time for recent law school graduates, and following wave after wave of record-setting failure rates on bar exams nationwide, many of them are incredibly nervous about how they’ll perform on the July 2018 exam.”

ALABAMA: Shelby, other senators criticized for spending July 4th in Russia

Alabama to enforce internet sales tax collections

ALASKA: Anchorage Marijuana Store Owner fails to pay taxes

Alaska Wants to Fight Warming While Still Drilling for Oil

ARIZONA: Hundreds of new laws

Arizona tops record state revenue, supposedly due to high tax collections rate

ARKANSAS: ‘Non-profit’ Preferred Family Healthcare loses taxpayer funded contracts after being caught in a state lawmaker corruption scandal!

CALIFORNIA:  The Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission issued a layoff WARN, 47 jobs gone in September.

What You Need to Know About California’s New Data Privacy Law

New staffing law bedevils nursing homes

Hate crimes rise for third straight year

Gun owners couldn’t meet registration deadline due to state computer crashes, yet that didn’t stop spike in assault weapon registrations

Glendale police detective pleads guilty to obstruction, lying to feds

U.S. Marine sentenced in stabbing of Janesville man

Millionaires Leaving California Over Taxes

Tesla will be the first automaker to lose the taxpayer funded federal tax credit for electric cars

COLORADO:  Federal tax payers funding repair of storm damaged Reservoir In Thornton

How a Denver Post reporter found that thousands of Colorado court cases have been hidden from public view

How To Protect Your Colorado License Plates From Theft

CONNECTICUT: New State Laws

rise in online dating, internet crimes

police chief retires amid scrutiny over suicide probe

DELAWARE: County corrections officer charged with sexual misconduct 

FLORIDA: Search and rescue volunteer arrested for impersonating a cop

Corrections officer arrested and fired after she beat pregnant shackled woman

More than 450 people in Florida ordered to surrender guns

Hundreds of new laws that took effect July 1 (and one law that didn’t)

GEORGIA: Gang activity getting worse

Other Georgia laws that took effect 

GUAM: Lieutenant governor apologized for grabbing a police officer’s holstered gun at the Tumon barbecue street festival

HAWAII: 2 arrested after cop killed 

Appeals court: 2nd Amendment protects open carry of guns

IDAHO: Once again exalted taxpayer funded leaders of Pocatello are claiming their city is booming, even placing an article in the local newspaper disputing all claims of increasing poverty.  Pocatello native Reverend Roger Bray got so upset he countered with his own article saying “…the poverty rate in Bannock County was 16 percent of our households; while households classified in the ALICE category were listed at 22 percent. The combined rate of those struggling added up 38 percent of all Bannock County households…   ….the conclusions of the 24/7 Wall St. study and the ALICE study, conducted by two divergent groups with different methodologies and for different purposes, converge. Together they demonstrate that there are significant economic challenges faced by a large portion of our community…..   …the levy rate for Pocatello has moved up steadily. Pocatello now has the highest accumulative property tax rate of the 10 largest cities in Idaho….” 

Refugee who fled violence in Ethiopia mourns daughter slain in Boise

Domestic violence deaths are on the rise in Idaho – especially murder

Prison overcrowding forces Ada County To Study Criminal Justice Reform

Statewide prison overcrowding causing ‘criminal justice crisis,’ may have to declare emergency

New Tricky Trespass Laws

Drivers ticketed for going too slow under new law

Planned Parenthood, ACLU Sue Idaho (and taxpayer funded leaders of Idaho have a real good record of losing lawsuits)

Idaho Public Utilities Commission postpones Avista and Hydro One merger 

Idaho gears up to boost logging on federal land

ILLINOIS: More than half the state’s counties are on a poverty watch list

Nearly 2,300 women are now serving time in prison

transgender woman sues to move to women’s prison

Herrin Police Department initiates new ‘street crimes’ unit

property crime up in Rockford

Belleville cop forced woman into sex act

INDIANA: The city of Fort Wayne not renewing a contract with Fleet Services Company, 25 taxpayer funded jobs gone in September.

Van Buren town marshal arrested on burglary and thefts charges

Dozens of NEW Laws Went Into Effect (eyeball tattoos?)

IOWA: New state laws affecting farmers

KANSAS: New state laws

tax receipts up $1.2 billion from previous year, due to lawmakers reneging on promised state income tax cuts!

KENTUCKY: Record number of new laws you have to obey!

LOUISIANA:  No tax-free weekends for 7 years

Local sales tax rates reduced, but still considered high 

MAINE: 15000 Taxpayers May Have to File Amended state tax Returns!

U.S. Border Patrol Stops Canadian Fishermen in Disputed Waters Off Maine

Medical marijuana legalized but age to smoke tobacco raised

MARYLAND: Federal regulators approve natural gas pipeline on west side of state

several new state laws that may affect your business

MASSACHUSETTS: New anti-gun law allows your anti-gun relatives to legally take your guns by claiming you’re a threat!

Marijuana sales to begin

Police Release School Vandals Due to Change in state law

“NASTY Women” abortion act

MICHIGAN: History of Michigan’s unConstitutional religious ‘blue laws’, used to punish ‘non-believers’!

150 new laws

Municipalities bristle at state’s copper, lead laws

MINNESOTA: New Laws In Minnesota 

People with records of intoxicated driving now banned from state parks?

will early property tax payments pay off

Minnesota to e-retailers: Start collecting taxes 

State income tax not unconstitutional (according to taxpayer funded state court)

MISSISSIPPI: Mississippi laws: What’s new this month

MISSOURI: prison guard sued for third time over alleged sex assaults 

New prison system program costs taxpayers $5-million USD

Sheriff and deputy caught having affair, also facing multiple felony charges

Continued Increase in Federal Regional Violent Crime Prosecutions

MONTANA: Tracking ‘Dark Money’ in Montana Elections

Riot at Cascade County Detention Facility

NEBRASKA: In the predominantly ‘christian’ state, cops have been using convict data to seek out, harass and intimidate state employees who were former prisoners!

Looser gun restrictions among new state laws

NEVADA: more than a dozen new laws

Tax revenue from marijuana sales set new high

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Online taxes: New Hampshire Steps Back

New Hampshire’s new poll tax

New Hampshire makes it tougher for students to vote.

NEW JERSEY: State taxpayers forced to fund local news media!

NEW MEXICO: Political corruption killing local economy

State cop preyed on woman, teen

State prisons will soon fill up

NEW YORK: State ‘criminal justice system’ is not about fighting crime, it’s all about Social Control.

New law forces Airbnb to open its books to New York 

A state Law Tailored for Orthodox Jewish Schools Is Unconstitutional

New Yorkers Trying to Flee High State Taxes Find Moving Isn’t So Easy

NORTH CAROLINA: consumers could see $5B coal-ash cleanup bill

28 Sex Crimes Charges Dropped Against Police Officer

17 new laws 

NORTH DAKOTA: Supplier of electricity to public utilities, Basin Electric Power Cooperative eliminated 25 jobs, and warned of possible future layoffs.

Groups sue over oil refinery near national park

OHIO: Fat taxpayer funded Pentagon budget brings jobs to struggling M1A1 tank factory 

payday lending law could slam short-term lenders

OKLAHOMA: Prison incarceration rate “up 700 percent”

State Health department attorney confessed to faking threats 

” the largest abrogation of state sovereignty by a federal court in American history”

New Gas, Cigarette Tax Rates

OREGON: The mayor of Portland, and its Police Chief, swore they are not targeting people for being homeless, but 2017 arrest records prove they are!

 Black U.S. politician reported to police while canvassing for votes

Federal taxpayers now owners of bankrupt Lost Valley Farm mega dairy!

Asylum-seekers endure horrible conditions in Oregon prison

PENNSYLVANIA: Court upholds Philadelphia soda tax

PUERTO RICO: mayor, two others arrested on corruption charges

U.S. Army to Invest $62M in Puerto Rico

SOUTH CAROLINA: New South Carolina laws

gas taxes rising by another 2 cents per gallon

SOUTH DAKOTA: Nearly 300 new laws take effect!

Dentist and community activist accused of ‘touching’ female prisoners in Minnehaha County Jail

Wrong Man Released From Jail Turns Himself In

Lawsuit over prison food going to court

TENNESSEE: State Bureau of Investigation spokesperson placed on administrative leave as part of the criminal investigation of his taxpayer funded boss

TEXAS: Taxpayer funded Red River Army Depot to layoff more than 300 workers

VERMONT:  Legalizes Limited Amounts Of Recreational Cannabis

Tax Department Backlog Leads to Errors in Tax Bills

WASHINGTON: A look at Seattle neighborhoods where crime is up 

Gun owners face fines up to $10000 for not locking up their guns

From straw bans to $15 minimum wage

Washington DC: DoD Contractors Can Self-Report Derogatory Information

New tax law creates challenges for farmers

 Trump signs new law to Help Grandparents Raising Grandkids

“Recent tax law changes gave Treasury discretion to set the value of the withholding allowance for 2018.”

Don’t Count On A Tax Refund Next April

tax-exempt organizations no longer need to list donor information

WEST VIRGINIA: Berkeley County attorney found guilty of witness intimidation

“law enforcement teacher at Putnam County’s Career and Technical Center accused of sexual abuse of a student is among 49 people indicted by a Putnam County grand jury” 

WISCONSIN: ‘It’s a huge subsidy’: the $4.8bn taxpayer funded gamble to lure foreign Foxconn to Wisconsin, and to steal your property Foxconn and Eminent Domain: Using Blighted Property Designations

Court OKs Unconscious suspected intoxicated Drivers’ Blood Draws

State to expand collections of online sales tax

Self-Storage Lien-Law 

WYOMING: New ‘Gun’ Law

City of Cody, known for no animal laws, now wants to regulate your pets and livestock.

DUMBING DOWN THE U.S.A., JULY 2018: SCHOOL CRIMES SKYROCKETING!

OBAMACARE ACA DEATH SPIRAL, JULY 2018: ‘PHANTOM MEDICAL’ CLAIMS

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, JULY 2018: “A STATE OF NEAR DEATH.”

U.S. GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS, JUNE 2018: “THIS ISN’T FOSTER CARE, THIS IS STATE-SPONSORED KIDNAPPING!”

“a state of near death.”: Drugs, the American Way, July 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of July 2018.

“If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.”-President Donald Trump, Manchester, New Hampshire, 19MAR2018

On 01 July, somewhere in the eastern Pacific the U.S. Coast Guard captured a drug boat, three smugglers and 2,263 pounds of cocaine.

ALABAMA: Drug roundup results in 40 arrests; 30 cars seized

19 Arrested as Part of “Operation Street Sweeper”

ALASKA: Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Drug and Money Laundering Crimes

33 pounds of meth in backpack

Shooting in Mountain View started with fight over drugs

ARIZONA: 12 arrested in 13-month investigation

Border Patrol seize $1.4M in illegal drugs in tractor-trailer from Mexico

Union Pacific train derailment turns into drugs crime

New prosecution policy targets marijuana backpackers

ARKANSAS: Prisoners want information on execution drug

Prisoner dies of suspected overdose

Pulaski County Circuit Judge admits to rude and unprofessional behavior during Drug Court hearings

Drug crimes so numerous that taxpayers forced to build New State Crime Lab in Northwest Arkansas

CALIFORNIA: “Medical students, residents and even doctors in practice don’t recognize the addictive potential of benzodiazepines. There’s been all this awareness on opioids but very little focus on benzodiazepines and yet people are dying from them.”-Anna Lembke, Stanford University Medical Center, about the Next Drug Crisis

In San Diego, the U.S. Coast Guard off-loaded 8.5-U.S. tons of cocaine on 16 July.

DEA Arrests Eight People Linked to Coachella Valley-Based Meth Gang 

Doctor and His Assistant Charged in Scheme to Illegally Distribute Prescription Drugs and Commit Health Care Fraud

Demi Lovato hospitalized for apparent drug overdose

COLORADO: Man Sentenced to Five Years in Federal Prison for Growing Marijuana on an Island in the Colorado River

Legal marijuana caused emergency room visits to skyrocket?

Despite legal ganja, Colorado still has an illegal immigrant run black market marijuana problem 

Just because you legalize ganja it doesn’t reduce other drug crimes as A Surge In Meth Use In Colorado Complicates Opioid Recovery

CONNECTICUT: Hartford Man Sentenced to Prison for Distributing Crack

10000 bags of heroin seized in Hartford

10 arrests in Waterbury area

9 Arrests During Thompsonville Crackdown

Cop contaminated by Dangerous Drug: “This officer, from all we can understand, merely picked up a packet of drugs. That’s all it took to send him into a state of near death.”-Sergeant Chris Fry, Meriden Police

DELAWARE: Nearly Half of Overdoses Were in Sussex County

FLORIDA: 

On 03 July, the U.S. Coast Guard, and Tactical Law Enforcement Team South, captured a drug boat and more than 7-U.S. tons of cocaine.

Miami-Dade County Resident and Haitian Immigrant Charged with Cocaine Trafficking in South Florida

Four Foreign Nationals Indicted for International Cocaine Smuggling

Dark Web Vendor Sentenced to 108 Months in Prison for Narcotics Trafficking and Money Laundering Charges

new opioid-prescription law

Synthetic marijuana K2 most prevalent drug in Florida

Drug-smuggling operation at Florida jail uncovered

‘excited delirium’ 

GEORGIA: 18 homes raided in drug busts across Gwinnett County

Meth, cocaine are the most commonly seized drugs

Majority of those killed by cops tested positive for drugs

Judges across Georgia are releasing non-violent drug offenders

Deadly drugs ending up in counterfeit pills

GUAM: Woman pleads guilty to selling meth to U.S. military personnel

Attorney General employee sentenced to 3 years for smuggling drugs into prison

Recycling center ‘finds’ five pounds of cocaine

HAWAII: Drastic drop in drug supplies for hospitals

Opiate and cocaine use is climbing among workforce

medication drop-box program launched

IDAHO: Idaho State Police, Lewiston Police Department, Nez Perce County Sheriff’s Office and Nez Perce Tribal Police Department conducted a seven hours long vehicle stop & search op resulting in six felony drug charges, 25 misdemeanor drug charges and made one outstanding warrant arrest.

State senate candidate confronted cops with knife during drugs search

Major court case screw-up as jury member admits they know (and possibly hated) accused meth dealer defendant, resulting in an unfair conviction!

Nampa police arrest 20 for drugs in one week!

Who’s tracking opioids in the Treasure Valley?

ILLINOIS: Overdose deaths on the rise in Winnebago County

6 charged in drug-trafficking ring, including 2 previously acquitted

$1M coke, meth bust

Operation Fat Chance: More than 50 people facing criminal charges  for heroin and fentanyl sales on Chicago’s West Side

INDIANA:  police jail 129 in 6-day drug take-down event!

police seize orange ecstasy pills featuring Trump’s face

$750K worth of drugs, guns and cash seized 

IOWA:  Meth, marijuana, opioid tests rising at crime lab

Decorah parents charged with possessing meth around kids

Two major drug bust arrests in one week for Clear Lake

Two hospital nurses charged with drug theft

Halfway house prisoner accused of selling drugs

KANSAS: Increase in violent crimes comes with growing drug problem

Mexican Drug Cartels Sending Drugs Directly To Kansas

Drugs maker Cingulate Therapeutics raised $16-million

Prescription drug with marijuana to be sold in Kansas for the first time

KENTUCKY: Mexican illegal immigrant Pleads Guilty to Distribution of Methamphetamine

Drug Overdose Deaths up 11.5 Percent

Boyd County 3rd in state for OD deaths; suicides also up

Couple accused of kidnapping kids, having drugs, owning pet squirrel

LOUISIANA: Massive drug bust yields 221 felony charges!

more than $14,000 in marijuana seized

Drug roundup leads to 13 arrests

prison employee accused of trying to smuggle drugs in a sandwich

100-plus officers, K9s at Angola after drugs kill 2 prisoners

Amid Ringgold drug turmoil, residents pray

MAINE: State cop Accused of Selling Drugs makes Plea Agreement

$200000 worth of crystal meth

Operation SOS could mean harsher sentences for drug dealing

School district wants to punish “who are knowingly in the presence of prohibited substances”.

MARYLAND: U.S. Navy Academy’s biggest drug bust involving taxpayer funded students!

2472 Bags of Heroin From Worcester County Home

MASSACHUSETTS: Revere Men Sentenced for Oxycodone

Prison Guard Pleads Guilty to Scheme to Smuggle Opioids Into Prison 

Fentanyl-Laced Heroin, Cocaine, $60K Seized in Drug Raid

Fire Call Results in Unlikely Stoughton Drug Bust

MICHIGAN: Residents Sentenced for Oxycodone Distribution 

Woman Sentenced for Pill Charge

MINNESOTA:  Controversial ketamine trial sparks ethics complaint

Law officers nab 7 in what they say is first fentanyl operation in Duluth

Woman’s Airbnb home becomes drug-dealing venue

Parasite Drugs Its Hosts With the Psychedelic Chemical in Shrooms

MISSISSIPPI: Rankin County Man Sentenced to Five Years for Cocaine

Traffic stop leads to $2.5 million drug bust

Woodlands Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center nurse arrested for stealing drugs

MISSOURI: Details of Years of Drug Trafficking, Homicide, and Deadly Drug Overdoses at Clinton-Peabody Housing Complex

Drug crimes so bad that taxpayers forced to spend and extra 37% on funding for the 2nd Judicial Circuit’s Drug Court program!

Psychotropic Drugs Given To Missouri Foster Kids

Drugs maker TrialCard hiring 225 people to take drug orders

MONTANA: Men Sentenced to Federal Prison on Drug and Gun Charges

HIV on the rise in drug users 

Special anti-drug Highway Patrol team seizes record amount of drugs in first year

Drugged up fugitive buries alive five months old baby

NEBRASKA:  11 pounds of heroin strapped to man

168 pounds of marijuana

Drug company accuses taxpayer funded Nebraska Prisons of lying about what it was going to do with $20-million worth of killer drugs!

NEVADA: Las Vegas Doctor Pleads Guilty to Illegal Distribution of Hydrocodone and Oxycodone

Nevada prison execution connected to Drug company accusing Nebraska Prisons of lying about planned use of drugs.

Bail set at $1.5-million USD for two Canadians caught trafficking drugs

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  What to do with a sudden increase in federal taxpayer funding to fight opioids

New Drug Enforcement Surge to Focus on Hillsborough County

K-9 Units Sniff Out Drugs in Prisons

NEW JERSEY: Mercy County drug bust nets heroin, guns and cash

More than 8 people are dying from overdoses each day

Operation Red Raider: 21 Busted 

NEW MEXICO: State Police Officer Arrested on Federal Drug Trafficking Charges, accused of using drugs from evidence lockers to influence females, could lead to dismissals of 68 pending drug cases because the arrested cop probably falsified evidence against innocent people!

NEW YORK: Buffalo Man Pleads Guilty to Cocaine Conspiracy

Clifton Park Doctor Arrested for Unlawful Drug Distribution

Suspected leader of Queens-Based Meth gang Arrested

Drug Bust At Blue Heron Festival

An NYC bathroom set up to stem overdoses

NORTH CAROLINA: doctor wrote phony Oxyco prescriptions

Operation East to West results in 25 arrests

Day-care raided in massive drug bust

15 Arrested On Drug Charges

NORTH DAKOTA: teacher must surrender license because of drug charges

Drug crimes continue rise

new anonymous drug texting tip line

1/2 pound of meth

OHIO: drug dealer gets life sentence

Shooting victim arrested on drug charges

spike in drug-related deaths 

highest overdose rate in nation

OKLAHOMA: Mayes County deputy fired after stealing meth

Woman accused of bringing drugs into state prison

Changes to marijuana laws

Woman faces multiple life sentences

OREGON: High demand for legalized ganja turned out to be overblown, prices crash due to lack of buyers!

Dog detected meth, Adults charged with child neglect

$45000 worth of MDMA

Astoria-based Coast Guard crew aids in $260 million drug capture

PENNSYLVANIA:  Pittsburgh Man Sentenced to 13 Months in Prison for Trafficking Heroin and Fentanyl Derivative

Man gets Probation for selling Oxycodone

Bad drug batch hospitalizes more than 100 in Philadelphia area

PUERTO RICO:  Nationwide legal drug shortage; partly due to hurricane in Puerto Rico

New Zealand news media reveals U.S. police love their state, or territory like Puerto Rico, being designated a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area because it forces U.S. taxpayers to give the cops an extra $3.1-million to $14.6-million USD each year!

RHODE ISLAND:  ADHD drugs do not improve cognition in healthy college students

“Three people are accused of running a drug house and holding another man against his will to steal his Social Security disability checks.”

SOUTH CAROLINA: Taxpayers spent $5-million USD on covert state police unit that was supposed to target drug dealers but was actually going after migrant workers!

police chief arrested on drug charge

pill gang used bitcoins, ‘dark web’

‘Operation The Heat is On’ drug roundup

SOUTH DAKOTA:  man sentenced to 25 years

man indicted in ‘darknet’ undercover operation

Mother sentenced to 40 years for toddler son’s beating death, after drinking alcohol and taking pain medication

TENNESSEE: Top Narcotics Officer Placed Under Investigation, calls into doubt dozens of drug convictions

Tipton County Public Defender’s investigator arrested for buying marijuana

Nashville warehouse distributing drugs illegally

New laws on the books to fight opioid epidemic

60 Pounds Of Pot Found At Nashville Airport

TEXAS: Federal Jury in Waco Finds Leader of Cartel Del Noreste and Nephew of Los Zetas Leaders Z-40 and Z-42 Guilty on All Charges

35 arrested

Coke, meth and booze: The flip side of the oil industry 

These guys smuggled pot to Dallas AFTER they’d been arrested 

UTAH: Girl tied to boys’ deaths charged with distributing drugs

teacher convicted of sex with minor charged with selling drugs

battle over pot pits the Mormon Church against its own members

County jail accused of giving newly arrested drug addict (and father) the drugs he used to kill himself with

VERMONT: 10 arrested

Royalton cop who stole heroin from police evidence room goes to prison, for a piddly six months!

Drug use so bad taxpayers forced to hire 9 More ‘Drug Recognition Experts’

Ganja ‘gifting’ is illegal

More bad news on the marijuana law

Metal dealers caught up in drug crimes

VIRGINIA: 

At Fort Belvior, scientists with Northwestern and Cornell Universities, in conjunction with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department, spent 2.6-billion of your tax dollars finding a way to manufacture drugs faster, and to make the drugs take effect faster; Glycosylation Sequence Characterization and Optimization by Rapid Expression and Screening.

1,538 people died in Virginia from a drug overdose

Man Dies After Choking on Bag of ‘White Powder’ 

Prisoners to get treatment for addictions

WASHINGTON: Drug bust at Paradiso Festival

Moses Lake cops find fentanyl disguised as prescription medicine

Feds arrest 11 in alleged heroin, meth trafficking ring

Man acquitted of killing toddler sentenced for drug charges

Drug dealer takes customers hostage for failing to pay

Female prisoner sneaks meth and heroin into jail inside her body

Washington DC: Man Sentenced to Over 10 Years in Federal Prison for Phencyclidine (PCP) 

“U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said in Fargo on Thursday, July 26, that many American Indian tribes are in free fall due to overdose deaths involving opioids.”

WEST VIRGINIA: Charleston Doctor Arrested for Illegal Distribution of Opioids Resulting in Death

7 Arrested After Drug Raid in Huntington

deaths of despair

WISCONSIN: Man arrested in heroin bust worked for ‘christian’ YWCA

Rock County Jail nurse arrested on drug charge

Fatal drug overdoses in La Crosse County climb 

81 grams of drugs found inside woman’s body

Heroin deaths at all-time high

Chippewa Indians join War on Drugs

WYOMING: probation officer pleads guilty to drug charge

Nurse Indicted for Unlawful Distribution of Drugs Resulting in Death

UPS (United Parcel Service) employee admits to stealing drug packages

Colorado pot finds its way to northeast Wyoming

DUI arrest rate is among the highest in the country

Idaho: Mountain Home AFB update, F-15E walk-around, Micron Bus

22SEP2018 (16:34 UTC-07 Tango 06) 31 Sharivar 1397/11 Muharram 1440/13 Xin-You (8th month) 4716

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Sandra Welch, 20AUG2018.

In August, the 17th Special Tactics Squadron took part in Jaded Thunder.

A child tests a plasma ball on the Micron STEM Bus. USAF photo by Senior Airman Malissa Armstrong, 07AUG2018.

Mountain Home AFB got a visit from Idaho based computer tech company Micron‘s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Bus.

Students try out a game recreating an image they see on a tablet. USAF photo by Senior Airman Malissa Armstrong, 07AUG2018.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jeremy L. Mosier, 04AUG2018.

Also in August, while many local Idaho school districts struggle, grade school students on Mountain Home AFB got 2-hundred new backpacks filled with supplies, courtesy of the Airman and Family Readiness Center’s Back to School Brigade.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jeremy L. Mosier, 04AUG2018.

F-15Es from the 366th Fighter Wing, Mountain Home Air Force Base, on Gowen Field National Guard base, Boise Airport, Idaho, 12JUL2018. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Winn.

In July, F-15E Strike Eagles from Mountain Home AFB, along with C-17 transports from Travis AFB in California, converged on Idaho National Guard’s Gowen Field for what’s called Adaptive Base Training (aka Gunfighter Flag 18-3).  The Louisiana National Guard’s 159th Fighter Wing joined in, as well as Idaho National Guard A-10Cs.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Winn, 12JUL2018.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Winn, 12JUL2018.

USAF photo by Airman First Class JaNae Capuno, 12JUL2018.

USAF photo by Airman First Class JaNae Capuno, 12JUL2018.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Hailey Bivens, 30JUN2018.

366th Security Forces Squadron took part in exercises to prep them for Defender Challenge 2018.

391st Fighter Squadron from Mountain Home AFB bombs Utah, 03JUL2018. USAF photo by Airman First Class Codie Trimble.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Parker Dubois, June 2018.

The first weekend of June, the F-22 Raptor made an appearance at the Gunfighter Skies Air and Space Celebration, over Mountain Home AFB, even dogfighting a P-51D Mustang (hey, that’s one of ours!).

USAF photo by Senior Airman Parker Dubois, June 2018.

Idaho Air National Guard Photo by Airman First Class Mercedee Schwartz, 06MAY2018.

In May, Idaho National Guard A-10C Thunderbolt-2s shot-up the Saylor Creek Range on Mountain Home AFB.

The following video is from 2017, but shows you what Idaho National Guard A-10s do to the Saylor Creek Range:

 

Video, Mountain Home AFB F-15, Thunderbolts and Bold Tigers:

Video report, history of 366 Thunderbolts/Gunfighters:

 

 

March 2018: MOUNTAIN HOME AFB, IDAHO, UPDATE

“we need to get the life expectancy out of them.”: U.S. hi-tech/communications breakdown, July 2018

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

The Washington Post: Millions of educated, experienced workers have been tossed aside

The Guardian:  Accidents at Amazon: workers left to suffer after warehouse injuries

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ALABAMA: Verizon shutting down its call center in Huntsville,  some employees will continue working from home while others will get laid off.

Facebook to Build $750M [spy] Data Center in Huntsville

ARKANSAS: Hewlett-Packard to Lay Off 500 in Conway

CALIFORNIA: Univision continues killing jobs, this time an additional 6% of its workforce.  San Francisco based rideshare Uber suddenly laid off about 1-hundred ‘self-drive’ employees across the U.S., apparently due to self-drive accidents!  Sony Pictures suddenly laid off 25 people. Mountain View based InfoTech company Tintri now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Entertainment marketer Ant Farm issued a shutdown WARN for its Los Angeles office, 80 jobs gone in September. In Palo Alto, Space Systems/Loral revealed they laid off 109 people last month!  Fabless semiconductor maker Cavium issued a layoff WARN for three locations, 45 jobs gone by September.  In Mountain View, ‘data protection’ company Veritas Technologies revealed it laid off 71 people, back in April.  Marvel Semiconductor issued layoff WARNs for two locations, 45 jobs gone by September.  Taylor Communications revealed it shutdown its Livermore ops last month, 37 jobs killed without warning.  Embedded software company Wind River Systems issued a layoff WARN for its Alameda location, 64 jobs gone by Mid-September. iPayment issued a layoff WARN for its Westlake Village location, 30 jobs gone by mid-September.

 A shadow workforce of contract labor keeps Google humming

Layoffs and Management Shuffles Plague Seagate 

Tesla, Pushing for Profit, Faces New Questions Over Finances

Tesla finally hits weekly production target for Model 3 

Elon Musk’s ‘pedo’ attack rattles Tesla investors: ‘This thing is unraveling’

COLORADO: Phone-book publisher turned tech company reveals Denver-area layoffs

CONNECTICUT: What housing market recovery? Online based home loan lender The Money Source suddenly laid off 60 people across the U.S., unnamed victims reported to industry news media that they were only told to attend a webinar where they were informed they were no longer employed.

State taxpayers forced to ‘loan’ Chinese tech company $10-million USD to set up shop in Connecticut!

FLORIDA: Taxpayer funded Space Coast Launch Services eliminating 102 jobs by the end of September!

Industry leaders sound off on Orlando’s high-tech disconnect

GEORGIA: High-level Georgia Tech administrators out after internal audit

IDAHO:  InfoTech company Sykes issued a shutdown WARN for its Boise call center, 640 jobs gone, asks police to be present! Also in Boise, Marvel Semiconductor issued a WARN, 16 jobs gone in September.  Now bankrupt busted Tintri has city of Lewiston upset because they’re on year one of a three year contract: “We put a lot of money into these Tintri boxes, and we need to get the life expectancy out of them.”-Danny Santiago

North Idaho tech innovator arrested under suspicion of domestic battery

Idaho Inmates Hacked Prison Service for $225000 in Credit

Taxpayers forced to give Wendell High students new laptops

ILLINOIS: The new owner of computer driven Chicago Stock Exchange suddenly laid off about 12 people (the new owner is New York Stock Exchange). Chicago based in-flight wi-fi Gogo laid off 55 people, possibly in connection with problems with its new airliner wi-fi antennas.

Nutrien buys startup Agrible for $63M

INDIANA: Electronic resistor maker CTS issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Elkhart, 103 jobs gone by Xmas!

Soon taxpayers will be forced to fund a new public school district  ‘financial monitoring system’, in an attempt to halt the massive numbers of school district financial failures!

IOWA: Iowa Wireless/T-Mobile eliminating 27 jobs in Cedar Rapids, by November.

KENTUCKY: Lexington based Lexmark eliminating at least 1-thousand jobs globally!

MARYLAND: Tech engineering company Sierra Nevada lays off ‘approximately 40’ at Hagerstown-area facility

MASSACHUSETTS: Data storage firm Western Digital to close Marlborough office

F5 Networks ….plans to close an office in Massachusetts

MICHIGAN: Teleperformance USA shutdown its Grand Rapids call center, 91 jobs goneCharter Communications laying off 111 people at two locations in August!

MINNESOTA: Information solutions company NCS Pearson issued a WARN, 82 jobs in Bloomington gone in September.

Great Lakes Polymer Technologies plant in Albert Lea to close

Duluth confronts expensive reality of school tech push

MISSOURI: BJC HealthCare suddenly laid off 113 InfoTech employees and contractors, in connection to its new Epic go-live ops!

Another 40 employees laid off at EaglePicher Technologies

MONTANA: Five workers in Butte, 100 in Moses Lake lose REC Silicon jobs

NEVADA: After forcing utility customers to pay for car charging stations and revealing that most of its revenue actually comes from casinosTesla awards a piddly $1.5 Million To Nevada STEM programs.  Other news reports say Tesla will donate $37-million in total, albeit spread over five years.

‘All humanity has left the area’: paying for Tesla’s Gigafactory

NEW HAMPSHIRE: California  based software maker Extreme Networks WARNing it could eliminate as many as 99 jobs at its ops in Salem, apparently no reason was given.

NEW JERSEY: Taxpayers forced to give $5-million USD to save the main stream news media!  or New Jersey’s Experiment in State-Funded News

NEW YORK: The Illinois based owner of New York Daily News suddenly laid off 93 people. In Painted Post, Sitel shutting down its call center, 184 jobs gone before Halloween! Brooklyn-NYC based advertiser Laundry Service eliminating 45 jobs by October, including its founder.

NORTH DAKOTA: Investigation discovers that State College of Science’s workforce TrainND computer system is a technical failure resulting in “improprieties, or incorrect reporting”!

OHIO: ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM OF TOMORROW unsure of status of 2,300 students

PENNSYLVANIA: Aptiv acquires Winchester Interconnect in $650 million agreement

Medtronic closing office & eliminating 63 jobs

SOUTH CAROLINA: InfoTech company Sykes shutting down its Greenwood ops, 213 jobs gone by mid-September!

TEXAS: Circuit board maker Dynalyst now chapter 11 bankrupt busted with more than $1-million USD in debts. San Antonio Express News laid off 20 people.

UTAH: IM Flash to lay off 7% of Utah workforce

VERMONT: WCAX to Cut Production Staff

WASHINGTON: Seattle based multi-cloud F5 Networks laying off 230 InfoTech employees, despite still advertising for more than 3-hundred open jobs and claiming to have made $150-million USD in profits! China based Ofo Bikeshare halting U.S. ops, including in leftist liberal Seattle where local news media speculated that the city’s plans to regulate bike sharing is the reason.  Germany based InfoTech/logistics company Arvato issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Yakima, 168 jobs gone by the end of September!

Washington DC: DC-based tech start-up FiscalNote to buy CQ Roll Call

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, June 2018: “REDEPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES”

School crimes skyrocketing!: Dumbing Down the U.S.A., July 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.

“Sesame Street is taking its beloved, critically acclaimed brand of educational television into the highly profitable world of classroom curriculum — a move that experts say could open the door for other companies to move into the sensitive learning space with possible influence on children.”-Associated Press

Nature-Genetics: Scientific study of 1.1-million people proves your DNA affects your ability to stay in school!

The Washington Post: Millions of educated, experienced workers have been tossed aside

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

ALABAMA: At least 46 Alabama students disciplined for making threats since Parkland

Alabama labels 75 schools ‘failing’ 

Proof it’s still about the ‘jocks’ and not education as University of Alabama opens $15M dining hall for athletes

Paranoid City of Dothan wants to hire 19 more school police officers

school police officer facing three charges of sex crimes

State health and education departments make immunization records easier to get

You know things are bad when a school supply give away is called Christmas in July

ALASKA: Rural students need support

Federal taxpayers fund Refugee/immigrant Students Backpacking program

vandalism of Alpenglow Elementary

ARIZONA: The Art Institutes of Phoenix shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Why Arizona Is Building Tiny Homes for School Teachers

California students flocking to universities in Arizona

specialty license plates garner $1.45M for education

Former Scottsdale school district CFO under indictment breaks silence

ARKANSAS: Panel Calls For Every School To Have An Armed Presence

Mental Health Counseling for Students Must be Priority

Taxpayers raped of $13.6-million USD for school-to-work program

Taxpayers spend $540-thousand to help one school district buy building for use as health clinic.

CALIFORNIA: In San Diego, after 53 years Adams Avenue Bookstore shutdown, the owners said it made more sense to sell the building than to continue selling books.  The Art Institutes of San Bernardino, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Ana shutting down, more than 5-hundred jobs gone by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition!   Privately run Argosy University campuses in Alameda, Ontario and San Diego shutting down, about 150 jobs gone by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition!

Celerity charter network closes a school

Auditors call for criminal investigation of Montebello school system

How one California county is criminalizing bad grades

Los Angeles school board member pleads guilty to conspiracy and resigns

Lawsuit over state’s literacy education can proceed

In high gang violence areas police “…found that school buses were dropping off students from different gangs at the same time.” 

Judge Considers Injunction Against Anti-Islamophobia Program In San Diego Schools

COLORADO:  The Art Institutes of Denver shutting down, 160 jobs gone by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition! Privately run Argosy University in Denver shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.  Kinder Haus Learning Center shutdown, Mesa County Public Health says the shutdown aggravates the local child care crisis as Kinder Haus was the largest provider in the county.

19 students hospitalized after school bus crash

Colorado Springs School District 11 wants to sell a parcel of vacant land that was slated for a new school

Taxpayers shell out $20-million USD for new District 49 school

You know things are bad when a taxpayer funded school supply give away is called Christmas in August

CONNECTICUT: New Haven Public Schools eliminating 37 teacher, librarian, and counselor jobs due to an audit that showed there weren’t enough students to justify the positions.

Teacher, Supervisors Arrested After Alleged Abuse

Bond raised for special ed teacher charged with sexually abusing students

Police Probe Alleged Criminal Conduct At School Events

DELAWARE:  claims suggest DOE Secretary lied during audit 

FLORIDA: The Art Institutes of Fort Lauderdale shutting down, 148 jobs gone by Xmas, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition! Privately run Argosy University in Sarasota shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Florida Increases Student Surveillance

At least 1040 teachers out of jobs after failing state test

Charter school amendment triggers School Board dispute

‘No homework’ policy gets bad grade

Manatee County principal under criminal investigation

Four-star university freshman footballer charged with two felonies

First class of armed school cops sworn in Polk County

GEORGIA: School District with less than 3-hundred students gets taxpayer funding to make upgrades to offer “anything that a bigger school would offer.”

New this year, sexual abuse education

Gwinnett Schools in sexual assault lawsuit

assistant principal, teacher arrested for alleged sex crime

teacher sentenced to 2 years in prison for firing gun in class

High-level Georgia Tech administrators out after internal audit

Student says ‘My Rifle Makes Me An Athlete, Not A Criminal

GUAM: Trial set in teacher’s sexual misconduct case

school supplies still needed

HAWAII: New law allows schools to sell products

State Revokes Charter Of Big Island School

School DESTROYED by Kilauea Volcano 

Kamehameha Schools and plaintiffs announce settlement

IDAHO: State education superintendent amended campaign reports after paying herself $2400

Taxpayers forced to pay $375-thousand USD per year to hire 15 unarmed security guards for Twin Falls School District

Xavier Charter School voted unanimously to allow a school employee to carry a concealed firearm on campus.

Taxpayers forced to give Wendell High students new laptops

Idaho is last in pre-K participation

IDAHO TEACHER SALARIES RANK LOWEST IN NATION

College of Southern Idaho claims increase in revenues, no ‘external’ debt!

In Mormon dominated School District 25 (aka Chubbuck/Pocatello) students experiencing skyrocketing disciplinary problems, “More children were expelled… …and even elementary students got in trouble more often for threats, drug possession and sexual offenses.” 

ILLINOIS: The Art Institutes of Chicago and Schaumburg shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition! Privately run Argosy University in Schaumburg shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.  Rush University Medical Center outsourcing 110 jobs! 

After years of  mass layoffs schools continue to face teacher shortage (really?)

School, trainer sued over alleged sex crimes

83 school districts flagged by State Board of Education for high rates of suspension and expulsion for three consecutive years.

How Public (taxpayer funded) Education Ranks In Illinois

Investigation discovers that State Board of Education itself caused spike to taxpayer-funded pension

INDIANA: The Art Institutes of Indianapolis shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Gary schools hit the real estate market

teen gang connected to at least 24 violent crimes

State taxpayers to provide handheld metal detector wands to local schools

police arrested teen at school for having e-cigarette

Teacher accused of intentionally making a special restraining chair for autistic student!

Student accused of bringing gun to Griffith High School 

Soon taxpayers will be forced to fund a new public school district  ‘financial monitoring system’, in an attempt to halt the massive numbers of school district financial failures!

IOWA:  University of Iowa furloughed (supposedly temporary layoffs) 33 people and is shutting down seven ‘centers’ and selling off property, due cuts in state taxpayer funding.

The University of Iowa Labor Center is one of the seven centers slated for closure due to budget cuts.

Taxpayers forced to pay an additional $1.13-million USD for Davenport School District’s “emergency” security funding!

Waterloo, Nashua educators’ licenses suspended for drinking at work

Complaint filed against Schools for use of restraints, seclusion

KANSAS: Two workers shot on Kansas elementary school playground

No felony charges against teacher accused of sex crimes

middle school teacher granted probation

sheriff proposes arming teachers

Reward increased for info about the murder of an immigrant Harmon High School wrestler 

Taxpayers funding new mental health program for five school districts

Taxpayers forced to pay $5-million USD for school security

KENTUCKY:  Kentucky State University eliminating 75 jobs (40 vacant positions and 35 filled positions) in an attempt to reduce labor costs by $2.3-million USD, partly blamed on a 6.25% reduction in state taxpayer funding.

Fayette school board approves tax increase for school safety

Kentucky schools ranked 20th

State offers settlement in Jefferson County Public Schools takeover case

School district sells three empty buildings at huge loss to taxpayers

LOUISIANA: God’s own Loyola University New Orleans suddenly laid off more than 24 people, and suspended its payments into the employee retirement 403(b) plan.  The christian university is dealing with a deficit of more than $25-million USD blamed, in part, to the sudden and unexpected loss of 2-hundred freshmen students back in 2013 (The Rapture?).

Little change in public school performance from last school year

Director of School for the Deaf replaced as part of state level staff shakeup

New state law allows families paying private school tuition a tax break

private schools could face sanctions if voucher students opt to go elsewhere

Louisiana leads the nation in high school seniors asking for federal tax-dollars to help pay for college

Southern University students will have to pay more

MAINE:  After 141 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) god’s own sexist Maine Girls’ Academy-Saint Elizabeth’s Academy shutdown due to lack of students (The Rapture?).

School ban on cell phones blamed for cell phone addiction?

MARYLAND: Incredibly high graduation rate at DuVal High School now considered a scandal

Maryland schools CEO handed six-figure severance payout

Restraining order remains in place against school board chairman

Asian students ask for a day off on Asian calendar Lunar New Year

new law allows students to bring sunscreen to school

MASSACHUSETTS:  Schools allowed to continue electric shock torture of students!

defunct New England Institute of Art/Brookline Art College accused of lying about employment success of graduates

Charter school funding formula is broken

Fall River schools gets 453-thousand federal taxpayer ‘hurricane relief’ dollars for enrolling 152 students from Puerto Rico!

New law lets juveniles off

MICHIGAN: The Art Institutes of Novi shutting down, 114 jobs gone by Xmas, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition!  Privately run South University in Novi shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

“Federal education officials say Michigan is the only state in the U.S. that needs intervention after failing to meet federal special education requirements”

Students in Detroit Are Suing the State Because They Weren’t Taught to Read

University of Michigan doctor charged with yet more sex crimes

MINNESOTA: Capella University issued a layoff WARN, 125 jobs gone in August!

boys sue to join girls high school dance teams

Duluth confronts expensive reality of school tech push

District 518 in violation of special education rules

District 518 battle now includes criminal charges

Teen sentenced for threatening Futures School

Lincoln Park Junior High School teacher accused of sex crimes back in court

Austin school district to raise lunch prices, blames federal government

MISSISSIPPI: Gov’na orders takeover of Noxubee schools

Starkville teacher charged with child exploitation

Sex Education Lessons From Mississippi And Nigeria

Convicted Columbus music teacher gets appeal

School principal arrested for DUI 

MISSOURI: Immigrant student from India, attending University of Missouri-Kansas City, murdered 

University of Missouri’s Columbia campus raises a record $147-million in donations!

Lindbergh is the last taxpayer funded school district where parents pay out-of-pocket for kindergarten

STEM bill vetoed because unAmerican corporate America wrote it!

Federal court orders change to local school board elections

Charter school parents deserve a say in lawsuit

Without warning one of the oldest charter schools in Kansas City suddenly shuts down

Brentwood woman stole $8000 from high school PTO

Gunshots during a football scrimmage at Saint Mary’s High School

Missouri is known as a haven for child marriages.

MONTANA: Victim of high school shooting released from hospital, then arrested

Teen denies Bozeman High School bomb threat

teacher who was convicted for assaulting student selected for new teaching job

Former teacher may have probation revoked due to new sex offense charge

teacher charged with sexually assaulting a student

NEBRASKA: State’s top educator says he’s ‘sick’ of racist comments

For a few terrible hours, Nebraska City feared a school shooting

Walthill school failed to provide special education services

Test scores at Schuyler Central don’t make the grade

New Millard policy prohibits texting between teachers and students

Taxpayers funding $75-million USD in renovations for UNL

Taxpayers funded $43.9-million Student Health Center

NEVADA: After forcing utility customers to pay for car charging stations and revealing that most of its revenue actually comes from casinosTesla awards a piddly $1.5 Million To Nevada STEM programs.  Other news reports say Tesla will donate $37-million in total, albeit spread over five years.

Clark County School District hired 105 special ed teachers, all of them foreigners!

Feuding teachers’ unions battle over package delivery

Marijuana tax money for schools: Where is it going?

NEW HAMPSHIRE: PSU Teams Up With Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network of N.H. to Address Bullying in Schools  (when they say ‘address’ does that mean they’re sending them a letter in the mail?)

Parents Think Of Leaving due to new Franklin School Budget

criminal probe of school lunch program

School counselor gets 2½ years for teen sex assault

EPA Money To Address Asbestos In Schools

Accreditation’s Insidious Impact On Higher Education

NEW JERSEY: Why are so many high school students leaving New Jersey?

Too many school boards wasting too much money

Ewing school teacher gets fired amid child sex crimes

ACLU sues 12 school districts for being anti-illegal immigrant

Another Catholic school announces closure

NEW MEXICO: State loses education lawsuit over Constitutional Rights

UNM No. 1 in stolen autos

Youth gangs on rise in Santa Fe

Man who pled guilty to felony appointed to Luna college board

New Mexico Nursing Education Consortium secures only a fraction of what’s needed for yearly budget

Brain drain hurts New Mexico

NEW YORK: The ‘future leaders’ of America prove they are prejudice when New York University students express disdain for the Supreme Court nominee, days before the President made the nomination!  One prejudiced and politically out-o-touch student even said the “…the new nominee is like racist, and he’s starting a new wave of something very negative…”  God’s own Niagara Catholic Junior/Senior High School shutdown without warning, due to a “significant” reduction in church funding and students (The Rapture?).  Conduent Education Services halting ops in Utica, at least 129 jobs affected by Halloween!

Trooper Is Killed Answering Call to Home of School Principal

Mental health education now required 

Special ed teacher convicted of sex crimes, now pleads guilty to welfare fraud

Does Admissions Exam for Elite High Schools Measure Up? No One Knows

Speed Cameras shutoff in NYC School Zones

Taxpayer funded public schools to educate students about Sikhism

NORTH CAROLINA: The Art Institutes Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition! Privately run South University in High Point shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

How does North Carolina rank for education?

Teachers view student behavior differently based on race

The Rise Of Charter Schools 

School board makes gutsy decision not to give taxpayer money to its own state government lobby group!

NORTH DAKOTA: For the first time ever, the state Department of Public Instruction asked Native Americans about their education desires!!!

Junior High teacher arrested and accused of enticing boys to have sex with her

Teacher facing drug charges loses license

Minot Teachers at fault 

Number of students who can’t speak English increasing

Investigation discovers that State College of Science’s workforce TrainND computer system is a technical failure resulting in “improprieties, or incorrect reporting”!

North Dakota State University prepping to lose 3-hundred students this school year!

“North Dakota State University has clearly demonstrated negligence which led to dozens of animal deaths, I must insist that you take the most severe action allowable under the Animal Welfare Act and immediately begin the process of issuing the maximum fine allowable…..$10,000 per infraction/ per animal”

Despite oil revenues, the state university system faces lowest taxpayer budget in a decade!

OHIO: Wright State University eliminating 26 jobs in accordance with its new budget.  Privately run South University in Cleveland shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Investigation Reveals Thousands Of Ohio K-3 Students Suspended Each Year!!!

U.S. DoE leader’s $40 million yacht vandalized in Ohio

taxpayers paid $7.7 million to renovate charter-school 

ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM OF TOMORROW unsure of status of 2,300 students

Thousands Of Ohio Seniors Unsure of Graduation Status

Uncertainty and confusion for school districts promised funding windfall from gas pipeline 

Summit Academy Secondary School violations

Open Enrollment actually covert Segregation?

More Than 100 Former Ohio State Students Allege Sexual Misconduct

Ohio State football wide receiver coach fired amid allegations of domestic violence

Ohio State University gets record $600M in donations 

OKLAHOMA:  University of Oklahoma eliminating one third of executive jobs in an attempt to keep student tuition from being increased.

Lottery proceeds for education top $63 million thanks to new law

Declining state taxpayer funding caused by declining student enrollment, yet local school districts say they need more money despite fewer students

Taxpayers forced to pay Tulsa Public Schools administrators who were not certified and did not have employment contracts!

Education Board charter school Langston Hughes Academy on probation

pervasive hunger impacting school, workplace

Judge says Bixby High School football players committed rape

Hartshorne schools allow trained teachers to carry firearms

OREGON: The Art Institutes of Portland shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.  It leaves “students scrambling for ways to continue their education.”

Dallas School District ordered by state to provide more special education

teacher arrested in drug case could return to classroom

Leftist liberal school district forces taxpayers to shell-out $25-thousand USD, because the district illegally suspended a student for wearing a Trump t-shirt!

PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh based Education Management (the now former owner of Art Institute) now chapter 7 bankrupt busted and liquidating.  The Art Institutes of Philadelphia shutting down, 171 jobs gone by the end of August, the new corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition!

Chief executive officer of the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School spending up to 20 months in federal prison, for his part in an $8-million USD taxpayer scam.

Property tax rates going up because of schools, “It’s getting tougher each month to pay that” says a retired homeowner on a fixed income who just got hit with a 2.4% increase in property tax.

Lancaster County school districts raise property taxes as much as 6.3 percent!

Taxpayers forced to spend $2-million to license more people as teachers

How Perverse Incentives Leave Struggling School Districts Behind

Pennsylvania has among the biggest student loan debt

Investigation says Hazleton Area School District has a bullying problem

Emmaus High School forces students to watch LGBT videos, yet bans parents

Influx of Puerto Rican families challenges school district

Massive Fire Rips Through Delaware County Catholic School

Holy-er than thou christian school principal says city kids need to be taught “to be quiet, clean and orderly.”!

SOUTH CAROLINA: The Art Institutes Charleston shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition, Students left dangling.

Cost of replacing a principal: $24000

Education still an obstacle

Tax credits for college tuition just got supersized

Charleston County Schools forced taxpayers to give $64000 to marketing company

school district abolished snow days

RHODE ISLAND: More high schoolers consider suicide

$25-million USD taxpayer funded Providence Public Library redeux will somehow create ‘lifetime education’

North Providence school chief accused of using taxpayer funded credit card for personal purchases

Latinos face hurdles in accessing adult ed classes

Teachers overwhelmed by students who can’t speak English

TENNESSEE: The Art Institutes of Nashville shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition. Privately run Argosy University in Nashville shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Metro Schools Director Accused Of ‘Election Interference’

Principal Sex Scandal Emerges 

Systemic problems in special education

City schools below state averages

Lottery claims it will give nearly $422 million to education

School district replaces snow days with eLearning Days

TEXAS: Privately run Argosy University in Dallas shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

In a Migrant Shelter Classroom

Arrests of students have increased

Number of students accused of making threats triples: “We saw a large number of kids who were being referred to juvenile probation for behaviors like pretending to shoot aliens…” 

Christian mom pleads guilty to trying to hide her high school aged son’s sex crimes, that he committed with elementary students right after going to church!

Administrators to carry guns in east Texas school 

Are college courses for high schoolers worth it? Maybe not

Texas wants to rape taxpayers of nearly $1 billion to help students afford college

UTAH: Privately run Argosy University in Salt Lake City shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

school counselor, custodian charged with sex crimes

Student accused in backpack bomb case to face adult trial

teachers taking up guns in their classrooms

Nebo School District to eliminate cross-dressing ban

VERMONT: Law School revokes tenure for 75% of faculty

Half of towns will see increased property tax rates, in the name of education

Teachers union claims to have plan to eliminate education property tax

Taxpayers forced to give schools $4-million USD for security

VIRGINIA: Mental health classes now required

The model state for school safety still has challenges

Lee County to arm school employees

teacher in child porn case had upskirt images of students

man facing child sex crimes used to be a teacher

Fairfax school system rejects former student’s assault claim

Investigators say elementary school teachers helped students cheat on state exams

WASHINGTON: The Art Institutes in Rosslyn shutting down, 118 jobs gone!

teaching assistant charged with raping child at Seattle school kept job

school board member accused of hitting bicyclist while driving

Students caught in middle of new college credit law confusion

Ocosta School District turning their new school into a Cascadia Event tsunami evacuation structure, as Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe gets 2.2-million taxpayer dollars to create vertical evacuation shelter

Why there aren’t any Native American charter schools

WASHINGTON DC: Education Dept. Illegally Curbed Workers’ Union Protections

Families accused of residency fraud re-enroll at Duke Ellington School

DC schools among nation’s worst

WEST VIRGINIA: Fayette County Board of Education employee accused of theft

“law enforcement teacher at Putnam County’s Career and Technical Center accused of sexual abuse of a student is among 49 people indicted by a Putnam County grand jury” 

school therapist accused of taking pics of naked students pleads guilty

WISCONSIN: school janitor faces child porn charges

State taxpayers forced to give $3.5-million USD for school security

Spanish immersion early childhood center planned in Shorewood

WYOMING: Riverton High School wrestlers face criminal charges for allegedly homo-sexually raping eight younger students on a school bus!

1 in 4 University of Wyoming students experience sexual assault

Reporting On Migrant Education 

Natrona County selling off Grant Elementary school

Dumbing Down U.S.A., June 2018:“LOCKDOWN, LOCKDOWN”

Is this it?: Sears – Kmart death spiral, September 2018

KTLA: Sears Stock Falls Below $1 For The First Time in Company’s History

Bloomberg: Lampert’s plan to ‘save’ Sears-Kmart will make him $1-billion!

Barron’s: Crashing retailers, like Sears, bringing down consumer products maker Newell Brands

Big Sears Shareholder Slashes Stake

Washington Post: Last minute plan to save Sears, sell everything!

PR Newswire: Lampert proposes increased sales of properties to avoid imminent bankruptcy!

Here’s more proof the demise of Sears/Kmart is not about online shopping: How Sears inspired Warby Parker’s move from online to offline retail

Forbes: 382 stores shutdown since 2nd Quarter 2017!

CNN: Lampert blames retirees for losses!

MarketWatch: More stores to close!

TheStreet: Sears Stock Just Crashed

California: Sears Holdings issued a shutdown WARN (Worker Adjustment Retraining Notice) for its Pinole Kmart, 67 jobs gone by December.  Sears Holdings created REIT Seritage Growth Properties Announces Construction Underway to Transform the Former Sears Site in Santa Monica into The Mark 302TM

Florida: Sears Holdings’ REIT spin-off Seritage Growth Properties announced it will redevelop the still active Sears store at the at the Westland Mall, in Hialeah, turning the building into an open-air-plaza (which probably means the store will shutdown).   The Sears store and Auto Center in Ocala‘s Paddock Mall listed for sale a week after those locations listed below, local news media said Sears Holdings might keep the store open through a ‘lease-back’.  It’s been discovered that Sears Holdings is attempting to sell-off several properties in Florida, including its still active Sears store in the Volusia Mall (Daytona Beach), still active Sears store and Auto Center in Tampa, still active Sears store in Port Richey, and still active Kmart distribution center in Ocala (the largest building in Marion County)!  86 jobs lost in Doral as the Sears store and Auto Center shuts down in time for Thanksgiving.

Sears sues Gardens Mall owner and city of Palm Beach Gardens, saying the mall owner and the city are blocking efforts to sublease store space to another retailer.

Idaho: The taxpayer funded project to turn the vacant Pine Ridge Mall Sears (in Chubbuck) into a charter school got a little more complicated and expensive.  Newly revealed plans show the west side mall parking lot being turned into a playground, add to that the Sears’ south side parking will be used for the school, this means if mall business ever returns to its late 1990s levels then there’s going to be a major problem with parking!

Illinois: “Taxpayers in Hoffman Estates are seeing a significant portion of their tax dollars subsidize Sears Centre Arena…” (note the evil British empire way of spelling center), $87.6-million USD down the drain since 2009!

Michigan: Sears still closing in Jackson, but auto center is spared

Nevada: Federal and state taxpayers being forced to spend $26-million USD helping a developer turn the vacant Reno Kmart into affordable housing.  Apparently Reno is experiencing a population explosion caused by Californians trying to escape the outrageously high housing prices in the liberal-left-wing not-so Golden State.

New York: Sears Holdings issued a shutdown WARN (Worker Adjustment Retraining Notice) for its Poughkeepsie Kmart, 71 jobs eliminated just days before Xmas. Sears Holdings also issued a WARN for its Eastview Mall Sears store and Auto Center, in Victor, 51 jobs gone by Thanksgiving.  Taxpayers about to foot the bill for turning a former Irondequoit Sears store into housing for old people, local news reports said the developer “…is working to get state funding and tax credits for the project.”  The still active Sears store in the Eastern Hills Mall (Clarence/Williamsville) suddenly sold-off to property developers for $6.8-million USD.  And it’s now official, the manager of Eastern Hills Mall said the Sears store will shutdown after Xmas (despite claims the store is hiring), however, Sears Holdings issued a WARN saying 40 jobs will be eliminated the week before Xmas.

Ohio: The Sears store in the Belden Village Mall, in Jackson, is being reduced in size (possible even shutdown) and the space will be split-up to allow at least five new retail/entertainment venues to move in.   The Sears store in the Mall at Fairfield Commons, in Beavercreek,  shutting down at an undisclosed time, local news reports say the space will be filled by two smaller operations.

South Dakota: In Rapid City the Northgate Shopping Center was sold in July, it’s home to a still active Big Kmart.  The new owners of the shopping center are about to spend $10-million USD redeveloping it, affecting all the current tenants.  The Big Kmart is currently operating on a four years lease, but active leases hasn’t stopped Sears Holdings from shutting stores down, and even the shopping center’s new owners said “If they decide to move on, then we’ll work with them on it.” 

Texas: More proof it’s not about lack of retail sales as the recently vacated Portland Kmart property can’t be sold because Sears Holdings is still paying rent on a lease that has three years to go. Portland city officials explained that even with Sears Holdings paying rent to the property owner for three more years, the city itself is losing about $2-thousand USD per year in sales taxes!   The Sears Hometown Store located in the Heartland Mall, in Brown County, shutdown due to what the owners called “difficult circumstances”.   The Sears store and Auto Center at the Broadway Square Mall, in Tyler, shutting down right before Xmas.  Despite the city of Tyler approving plans to tear down the Sears store, back in May, the shutdown announcement is still a surprise because Sears Holdings told local news media the lease was good for several years and they weren’t going anywhere.  Taxpayers in the city of Longview on the hook for $1.4-million to pay for the re-development of the vacant Kmart; it’s being turned into a city bus terminal.

 West Virginia: The Sears store in Grand Central Mall, in Vienna, shutting down by Xmas, local news media reported that the town mayor was unaware of the shutdown.  It’s been revealed that the taxpayer ‘marketed’ vacant Bluefield Kmart is still making money for the property owner as Sears Holdings is still paying rent on the space!  Local news media thinks the Kmart lease ends this November, Sears Holdings shutdown the Kmart in 2016 and has been paying rent since then.  City officials in charge of trying to rent out the space say so far there’s been no interested parties. 

U.S. Sears-Kmart death spiral, August 2018: “A BIG RISK.”

“global race to the bottom.”: U.S. industrial/mining/logistics shutdowns, June 2018

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

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

 CALIFORNIA: Palo Alto based Tesla announced the elimination of 3-thousand-6-hundred jobs (already issued layoff WARNs saying 506 Californians will become jobless in August!) in an effort to increase the company’s profit margin (due to the fact the 15 years old company has yet to actually make a profit, and don’t forget the 1-thousand-2-hundred California jobs Tesla killed last year)!   Palo Alto based Hewlett Packard (HP) warning of the elimination of 5-thousand jobs by the end of 2019, as part of its never ending restructuring plan (which began two years ago)!  ECS Refining issued a shutdown WARN for its Stockton location, 159 jobs gone in August!  Driessen Aircraft Interiors Systems suddenly laid off 10 people in Huntington.   Disabled veteran logistics services company TsiCorp shutting down two offices, eliminating eight jobs by the end of July. Continental Maritime issued a mass layoff WARN for its San Diego ops, 235 jobs gone by August! Arconic Fastening Systems issued a shutdown WARN for its Newbury Park ops, 30 jobs gone by the end of July.   What automotive industry recovery? Motorcar Parts of America eliminating 21 jobs in Torrance, by the end of July.

COLORADO: DCT Industrial real estate eliminating 59 jobs due to being taken over by California based Prologis.

CONNECTICUT: Netherlands based Philips shutting down its medical device factory in Wallingford by 2020, as many as 3-hundred jobs affected due to consolidation ops to Mexico and Costa Rica!   Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro blamed globalization saying “Families in Wallingford and across Connecticut deserve better than losing their jobs in a global race to the bottom. We cannot let them become just another statistic.”

FLORIDA: Illinois based Brunswick announced the shutdown of its elitist Sea Ray Sport Yacht & Yacht Operations on Merritt Island, 771 jobs gone (according to official WARN) as part of Brunswick’s plan to create a new boat making company by merging existing boat factories (consolidation ops)!  C&S Wholesale Services issued a WARN, 328 jobs in Orlando gone by September!  First Transit eliminating 96 jobs at Miami International Airport.

IDAHO: In Lewiston, ammo maker Howell Munitions-Freedom Munitions-X-Treme Bullets (in Nevada)-Clearwater Bullet-Ammo Load Worldwide-Howell Machine now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, apparently due to mismanagement of debt financing which left the company with at least $5.4-million in debts.

ILLINOIS: Vernon Hills based paint maker Rust-Oleum revealed plans to shutdown factories in Oklahoma and New Jersey, as well as eliminate jobs at its Vernon Hills HQ, hundreds of jobs affected due to “streamlining….to support future growth” (consolidation ops)!  Soap maker VVF Illinois Services issued a layoff WARN, 182 people in Montgomery out-o-work by mid-September, no official reason given! However, a local radio station reported back in January that the soap factory was shutting down and that 250 jobs were lost due to consolidation ops caused by crashing soap sales!

INDIANA: What automotive industry recovery?  British empire Canada based auto parts maker NFI Group-New Flyer shutting down its factory in Elkhart, 80 jobs gone by April 2019.   Diversified Machine Bristol laying off 95 people by the end of the year, due to the vague reason of “resourcing of product”.

MICHIGAN: In Ann Arbor, after 125 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) struggling book publisher Edwards Brothers Malloy gave up the ghost, saying it never recovered from the recent Great Recession, 282 jobs gone, but local news media reported that at one time the book maker employed 4-hundred people!

MINNESOTA: What construction industry recovery?   Bergstrom Wood Products eliminating 21 jobs in International Falls.

NEBRASKA: Wisconsin based lawn and snow equipment maker Ariens shutting down its factory in Auburn, 193 jobs lost by Halloween due to consolidation ops!

NEW YORK:  Energy company Exelon issued a layoff WARN for its Valhalla operations, 52 jobs affected by consolidation ops.

OHIO: Germany based DHL (a division of Deutsche Post) eliminating 260 jobs at its Groveport distribution center by mid July, due to the sudden loss of a major contract!  Dover-OPW Fueling eliminating 22 jobs in West Chester, in July.  Anchor Glass Container eliminating 70 jobs by Halloween.  What automotive industry recovery? Japan based JTEKT-Koyo Bearings eliminating 47 jobs in August.

PENNSYLVANIA: Troubled energy company (accused of falsifying financial documents to hide millions of dollars in losses) Worley & Obetz eliminating 150 jobs (on top of the 45 people laid off in May), and the CEO has been declared a “missing person”!  AmeriGreen Energy suddenly shutdown in Lancaster, 25 jobs gone. 

VIRGINIA: What construction industry recovery? Cabinet maker Corsi Group shutting down its three years old Sitline Cabinetry factory in Keysville, an undisclosed number of jobs lost to consolidation of operations.

WISCONSIN:  Germany based DHL (a division of Deutsche Post) shutting down its Mequon distribution center, 59 jobs lost in August.  GE Energy issued a shutdown WARN, 236 jobs in Waukesha gone by August!  Also in Waukesha, Cooper Power Systems issued a layoff WARN, 52 jobs gone by September. Lawn and snow equipment maker Ariens shutting down its factory in Janesville, 141 jobs lost due to consolidation ops!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Mining/Industrial/Logistics layoffs, May 2018:“PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO DECOMPRESS.”

“Lockdown, lockdown”: Dumbing Down the U.S.A., June 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.

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

ALASKA: No incumbents seeking reelection to Fairbanks school board

Fairbanks school bus contractor on road to improvement

Students take hunting challenge

ALABAMA: Locker room attack victim calls for firing of Davidson coach

School board approves Baldwin County dress code changes

Teaching offer rescinded for Limestone County superintendent’s daughter

ARIZONA: Organizers of education funding initiative defend taxing Arizona’s wealthiest

Arizona to use VW settlement money for new diesel powered school buses

Arizona Summit Law School on verge of losing American Bar Association accreditation

State education board votes to put over-budget Phoenix school district into receivership

Poverty is so bad that…Tucson-area schools, centers offering free meals… and …Back to School Clothing Drive supports classrooms

School districts release teacher pay info

ARKANSAS: Safety panel backs arming Arkansas school staffers

Rules to accredit Arkansas schools revised

State places school district on probation

Arkansas Teacher Salary Falls Three Notches

statewide teacher shortage

North Little Rock school exec to get $213000 to resign

Earle School District improperly spent about $766,000 on personnel costs using state funds specifically meant for education

Arkansas No. 1 in percentage of students at risk

CALIFORNIA: U.S. Education Department opens investigation into USC after gynecologist scandal

Acclaimed UC Irvine geneticist resigns due to sexual harassment

Three UC campuses did not consistently discipline faculty accused of sexual misconduct, state auditor finds

LA Unified’s spending

High opt-out rates on state exam continue to frustrate school district

California Will Be Fourth State to Sue Over Student Loans

COLORADO: After 47 years god’s own alternative school La Academia shutting down in Denver due to The Rapture, although they’re actually blaming it on competition from other schools.

Colorado Springs charter school on brink of closing stymied by D-11

Colorado approves $447 million in school construction

Colorado Dept. of Education worker sentenced to 12 years for ‘upskirt’ photos, videos

Board of Education rejects proposal to have students discuss gun benefits

Four Colorado Springs-area school projects benefit from marijuana-funded grants

CONNECTICUT: New Haven Public Schools issued 1-thousand-1-hundred layoff notices, due to a sudden budget reduction of $5-million USD as a result of state taxpayer funding cuts!  Washington based online used book seller Thrift Books Global issued a shutdown WARN for its Windsor Locks location, 54 jobs gone by July.

School safety bill vetoed by the governor

Region 10 School District to Arm Security Guards 

Student arrested for East Hartford High School social media threat

Coach Resigned, 2 Teachers on Leave Amid Investigation

Torrington Superintendent Resigns Amid Allegations of Neglect

Nearly $1 million was stolen from Connecticut Higher Education Trust

Ansonia’s mayor blames superintendent, board for school budget crisis

Ansonia and Derby Consider Merging School Districts

Windsor Lock revising grading system after backlash

Plainfield Mom Furious After Son Gets ‘ADD Award’

School Districts Struggle To Comply With New Student Data Privacy Law

DELAWARE: Delaware Backs Down on Letting Students Self-Identify Race, Gender

Sussex Tech School Board facing calls to resign 

Teacher Faces Sentencing on Child Sex Charge

FLORIDA:  new home for Troops to Teachers program 

Duval schools continue to lag in state reading, math

Florida Education Association employee arrested for shoplifting

GEORGIA: DeKalb schools sue to block Atlanta annexation

Georgia universities seek more rural students

Dying teacher’s request: Backpacks filled with school supplies

Kroger to give school supplies to GA teachers

Teacher pension funding behind cost increase for local taxpayers 

State taxpayer funding for Georgia teachers’ pension should begin to ease

State to hire construction managers for 4 taxpayer funded university projects that will cost at least $104-million

Polk School District created a dedicated taxpayer funded school Police Department, they’ve already got new taxpayer funded cars and locks on school doors 

Richmond County schools are failing, state taxpayer funded Department of Education taking over

Ever hear of the taxpayer funded Stop the Bleed program? Neither have the schools it’s supposed to support!

GUAM: Island paradise is short 300 teachers!

10 simple steps to become a University of Guam student

U.S. taxpayers (via U.S. Department of the Interior) giving Guam $2.5-million USD in fiscal year 2018 for various programs including scholarships 

Election complaint names GDOE superintendent

HAWAII: 84% of teachers choosing to leave Hawaii

Hawaii Will Pay $10.25 Million To Settle Special Education Lawsuit

Hawaii Schools fail To Address Bullying

Hawaii Farm to School program gets $100000 in federal tax funding

IDAHO: The state Board of Education approved an alcohol permit for home games at University of Idaho.

Idaho is tied with North Dakota for last place in the nation in early childhood education participation.

Taxpayers funding the largest Summer school for immigrants yet (200 students) in Minidoka County

Test results show Idaho student SAT scores dropped

Idaho Latinos least likely to have college degrees

For some reason ‘holocaust’ education is being forced upon grade school students.

Moscow School District ramps up vaccination rates.

District 93’s Special Education Program Struggles to Keep Up

Idaho Teacher Accused of Feeding live Puppy to Turtle Charged With Animal Cruelty 

Idaho school office dig fails to find body of missing woman

U.S. News & World Report: Idaho has the highest rate per capita of child marriage in the United States.

ILLINOIS: Western Illinois University suddenly laid off 24 people with only two days notice, and 62 vacant positions will not be filled, due to crashing enrollments (DSS).  God powerless to stop ‘his’ DePaul University from suddenly eliminating 62 jobs due to The Rapture, I mean DSS.  In 2012 the university had more than 16-thousand undergraduates, by 2017 undergraduates dropped to 14,816.  The Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago issued a shutdown WARN, 155 jobs gone by Xmas!

Six-Figure Illinois Educators Cost Taxpayers $3.7 Billion

Illinois Teacher Shortage?

Teachers take gun class at Farmer City

‘No way in hell’: School board member accused of using racism to ban books 

Illinois Among Biggest Spenders For Higher Education

School leaders worry about cost of mandated pay raises for teachers

INDIANA: Carmel Clay Schools spending taxpayer money on rebuilding/relocating two elementary schools despite their own 2016 survey results showing enrollments declining by 4-hundred by 2020 and by 9-hundred by 2026!    The global dairy collapse hitting even Andrews University, which decided to shutdown its 111 years old dairy school in 2019.  The shutdown will not only affect students and employees, but 1-thousand-2-hundred cows: “In the last two to three years, we have lost between $750,000 and $900,000 a year!”-Stephen Payne, VP of integrated marketing & communication

More Indiana children living in poverty but state rates well in education

Teacher pay in Indiana continues its downward slide

teacher resigns over transgender name policy

middle school math teacher shortage

Court rules Police officers working in Indiana schools must advise students of their Rights!

IOWA: Educational assessment company Pearson-ACT shutting down its Iowa City location, which will result in more than 2-hundred jobs lost by Xmas!  Company execs blame it on increasing numbers of people deciding not to go on to college/university.  God’s own Cedar Valley Catholic Schools warning it might have to shutdown three elementary schools due to deterioration of the buildings and The Rapture, I mean crashing enrollments. Alternative plans are being discussed.

Nine of every 10 public school districts in Iowa have buildings exposed to pesticides, and school officials don’t even know it!

Mystery complaint against multiple school boards over special education: “We’re not even really sure what it is about.”-Becky Wichers, Muscatine School Board

KANSAS:  Atchison school may close amid debts

Kansas Supreme Court: School funding is inadequate

Kansas Supreme Court upholds repeal of teacher tenure rights

Schools hold job fair as vacancies grow

Regents approve tuition and fee increases for state universities

Inside Wichita State’s latest tuition increase

Kansas teacher gets probation in student sex case

Kansas school official accused in sex messages case

KENTUCKY: Kentucky’s new school vaccination laws

State board of education OKs Bible literacy standards

High school student fools Trump fans

College and University admission standards changed

school districts get creative as teacher candidate pool dwindles

Two juveniles arrested for middle school burglary

LOUISIANA:  Tuition-free college? Louisiana teachers will be eligible 

Lack of diversity among teaching staff

15 new Louisiana education laws parents should know about

‘Too many broken promises’

LSU students to see another fee increase to help with pay raises

MAINE: School District to Remove Native American Imagery

Boy Drowned at State Park During school Field Trip

School Bus Driver Took Upskirt Photos of Students

Running Back Held Without Bail in Classmate’s Death

MARYLAND: MS-13 threatens a middle school, warn teachers

Prince George’s high school officials accused of boozing on the job

Transgender teen gets ‘permanent’ access to boys’ locker room

Nearly 1 in 5 Maryland students is chronically absent.

School Bus Aide Accused of Choking 7-Year-Old Boy

More than 32000 tickets issued to drivers for illegally passing stopped school buses 

MASSACHUSETTS: By the end of the month Dighton-Rehoboth Regional School District notified 84 people they were being rendered jobless, school officials are hoping cash strapped voters will approve additional tax spending in July.

“Lockdown, lockdown”: kindergarten uses Police State nursery rhyme to teach shooting response

High School Apologizes After Nazi Quote Is Printed

Hispanic population rapidly increases

Asbestos found at Healy School

MICHIGAN: God powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Saint Mary School in Mount Morris due to The Rapture, I mean declining enrollment, declining church attendance, rising costs and more families seeking tuition assistance.  Dream Center Education Holdings issued a shutdown WARN for its The Art Institute of Michigan, 114 jobs gone in August!

University of Michigan to raise in-state tuition by 2.9 percent

MSU expands sexual misconduct workgroup

teen sentenced in mass school shooting plot

Parents pull elementary students from school because of hit list

U.S. weighs in against University of Michigan bullying policy

MSU’s bond debt to jump because of Nassar case

Detroit-area high school raises nearly $150k to help homeless

MINNESOTA: Minnesota high school grad rate ranks 35th in U.S.

Saint Paul schools fail to meet state law on teaching the arts

1700 reading, math tutors sought for Minnesota schools

 school district tussle over girl’s need for special ed

Minnesota’s largest school district begins work on its biggest construction project ever ($249-million taxpayer dollars)

MISSISSIPPI: 2-thousand vacant education jobs

lottery announced for special needs scholarship program

teacher facing allegations of ‘improper conduct’ with student

32 arrested in online sex crimes against kids

executive order to establish School Safety Task Force

MISSOURI: University of Missouri suddenly laid off 30 people due to a shortfall of $45-million USD, a total of 185 jobs will be killed, one local news media source called the situation “chaos”!  Lindenwood University revealed that it had laid off 17 people in May.  God’s own Fontbonne University suddenly laid off 27 of its employees, due to The Rapture, I mean enrollment is down to just 1,375 students.

KCU begins construction of ‘future-proof’ $33M simulation center

Medical student accuses UMKC of racketeering, fraud

Missouri Southern faces a $1.1 million fine for tuition hike

coach’s lawsuit alleges racial discrimination

Eight northeast schools fail bus inspections

School shooting training at O’Fallon

New suicide policy

MONTANA: Missoula school cop accidentally fired gun

Gun found at Sentinel High School, 2 boys shot

Helena teacher says school cop shooter drill caused hearing loss

Billings teacher terminated following misconduct investigation

schools begin carrying drug to reverse overdose

Roosevelt Elementary School closed 

 school food truck serves free meals all summer long

NEBRASKA:  State will intervene at Schuyler Central High School 

Nebraska to implement ‘good behavior game

Taxpayers to spend $420000 on consultants for troubled schools

Property taxes remain high due to school funding

School bus crashes into utility substation

State Board of Education revokes license of substitute teacher

NEVADA: CCSD cuts electives due to lack of funding

CCSD budget reductions result in loss of 563 jobs!

Controversy erupts because of 2005 sex offender amendment

Solar panels help local school buy laptops

Questions raised about marijuana revenues for education

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Students Caught Sending Nude Pics

state’s role in bullying cases limited by current law

student behavioral issues escalating

$10M more approved to ‘harden’ NH schools

NEW JERSEY: School Didn’t Do Enough to Stop Her Suicide

school superintendent caught crapping in public, multiple times!

School District Mandates Clear Backpacks

Upper Freehold School District put on lockdown

Parents infuriated after short notice of christian school closing, especially after they paid more in tuition to keep it open

NEW MEXICO: APS submits plan for failing Hawthorne school

Parents fail to attend school choice expo for Hawthorne

La Resolana Leadership Academy’s charter is not renewed

SFPS finds state taxpayer funding for school security not worth it

Albuquerque Public Schools increases pay for employees

Taxpayers fund border-crossing students

teacher evaluations flawed

superintendent accused of faking credentials 

New Mexico ranks last in child well-being

NEW YORK: Van Trans-Attendant lost its taxpayer funded contract with state Department of Education, 333 jobs lost by September!  Taxpayer funded Cardinal McCloskey Community Services shutting down its Head Start Programs due to losing the federal contract, 202 jobs affected by July! Center for Family Support issued a shutdown WARN for its NYC ops, 80 jobs gone by September.  God’s own Saint John Villa Academy issued a shutdown WARN, 71 jobs gone by the end of August.  Lifeline Center for Child Development issued a shutdown WARN for its Queens-NYC pre-school, 41 jobs gone by the end of August. ‘Global learning company’ Channel One-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company issued a shutdown WARN, 28 NYC jobs gone by the end of September.

NYC’s ‘shadow school system’ 

NYC Spent $136 Million on temporary Teachers 

What’s Going On With New York’s Elite Public High Schools?

Elite Girls’ Schools Admitting Transgender students

NORTH CAROLINA: After 117 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) King’s College shutting down when the 2018-19 school year is done, administrators say their own studies show that what I call DSS will only get worse.  

40 state education staffers laid off, 21 vacant positions eliminated

Good test scores but too much Bible

 private school voucher millions still lack accountability

teacher among 3 charged with child sex offense

Class size and hunger top two problems for grade students

NORTH DAKOTA: teacher facing 3 new sex assault charges

Fargo teacher accused of bullying will be back in school 

kindergarten teacher appealing life without parole sentence

pilot shortage takes a toll on UND

OHIO: Taxpayer ‘sponsored’ (but independently operated) Phoenix Academy suddenly shutdown its alternative high school campus in Toledo, blaming lack of money.  GC Services warning that it could lose its taxpayer funded U.S. Department of Education contract, 123 jobs gone by August!

Taxpayer funded schools lose more than $24 million tax dollars to the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow charter school 

Summer schools now about feeding hungry children

Hamilton City School District arming school staff in response to complaints about security

State Bureau of Workers’ Compensation giving schools $8-million tax dollars for school security

Deficit-ridden Niles schools back under state watch

Sex abuse inquiry on Ohio State doc now includes high school

OKLAHOMA: University of Oklahoma warning of mass layoffs, claiming it lost $15-million USD to escalating operating costs.

tuition increase at Oklahoma State University

State Supreme Court Voids Challenge To Teacher Pay Tax

Troops To Teachers Program Looking To Ease Oklahoma Teacher Shortage 

‘We are in a teaching crisis in this state’

OREGON: Sate Department of Education creates 3rd Gender Option

School’s out for summer, but free meals for low income students are still on

Marcola teacher files complaint with state alleging ‘racist’ mascot

Taxpayer funded Eugene teachers knelt during national anthem

Students and parents bully bus driver, then they lie about it on social media! 

PENNSYLVANIA: plan to ax school property taxes is misleading 

Most school districts plan tax increases

State overwhelmed with tracking charter school taxpayer funding

All newborns will get a $100 investment scholarship for college

students given bulletproof backpacks for starting high school

Freshman student stabbed at Pennsylvania high school

school districts implementing trauma kits in classrooms

PUERTO RICO:  A quarter of Puerto Rico’s schools are shutting down

Judge blocks closure of nine schools

It seems that many school districts along the east coast of the United States have been taking in hurricane refugee students from Puerto Rico, as a way to shore up their declining student enrollments.  The result is that Puerto Rico is shutting down schools due to lack of students.

RHODE ISLAND:  Legal counsel Attorney for state Dept. of Education not a member of state Bar

teacher absenteeism rate third-highest in nation

SOUTH DAKOTA: South Dakota teachers rank 30th in buying power nationally

educational cooperative business employee charged in a financial misconduct scheme

More than half of South Dakota communities losing population

TENNESSEE:  Meharry Medical College suddenly laid off 55 employees. 

Tennessee law says anybody entering school, including colleges and universities, must be vaccinated

Benefits for Hamilton County Schools retirees delayed

Hamilton County Schools investigating state data leak

Five years later Achievement School District fails to improve

Parents dealing with growing wait lists for Pre-K programs

Metro Schools teacher arrested for meth use

Balmoral Ridgeway Elementary School PTO president charged with theft

Bledsoe County school district accused of racism

two Blount County Schools teachers lose their license to teach

TEXAS: Huntsville Memorial eliminating its Joe G. Davis School of Vocational Nursing due to increasing competition from area nursing schools.

Enforcement of school vaccinations causes shot shortage in Ector County

Mom caught son in bed with junior high school counselor

Student kills self at McKinney North High School 

The Fall of Dallas County Schools

Cypress-Fairbanks school district mandates clear backpacks

2 Teen Boys Wore Dresses To Texas School 

Texas school district can exhume unmarked graves

Pine Tree ISD manages to lower tax rate and give pay raises, all while operating on a deficit!

UTAH: Most Utah schools spent $1000 or less on suicide prevention programs

tug of war for teachers leads to higher salaries 

Two employees at Sierra Bonita Elementary School accused of sex crimes

high schools in Utah do not allow Pacific Islander students to wear leis at graduation

University of Utah Professor appointed chairman of Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission.

VERMONT: Merger madness

$50K theft from Pownal school account

South Burlington High to provide condoms

Vermont Law School laying off Tenured Faculty

VIRGINIA: School drops Confederate name in favor of Barack Obama

School being sued for not protecting girl from known sex bully

Manassas schools ‘on lockdown’

Richmond schools out of toilet paper?

teacher accused of being drunk at school

WASHINGTON: free city bus passes for high-school students

Durham offering $4K signing bonus, $17 an hour to entice new school bus drivers

Principals can’t hire enough special-education teachers

Homeless but not hopeless: Spokane high school students

Spokane school zone speed cameras snare $4 million in fines

superintendent expected to plead guilty in child sex case

Fife school board finds principal sexually harassed teachers

WASHINGTON DC:  DC-Area Schools’ Vaccine Requirements

 

WEST VIRGINIA: Mental health crisis in schools

More than 3,000 students awarded PROMISE Scholarships

Low income school clothing allowance deadline extended

WISCONSIN: School’s Closed. Forever.

Gunshot detection technology

volunteer tutor accused of sex crimes

Madison School District losing $7 million in state tax funding

Oregon School District increasing the number of school breaks in an attempt to stop flu outbreaks

WYOMING: Four schools set to close in Casper and Mills

Riverton High School hazing case

Evanston school district sued over new gun policy

Teton County School District No. 1 slashes employee benefits

Dumbing Down U.S.A., May 2018: “MORALE HAS NEVER BEEN LOWER.”