Tweet Print E-mail By Jeremy Redmon The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A large South Georgia vegetable farm has been favoring foreign guest laborers over U.S. workers, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has found. In a decision released last month, the EEOC said Hamilton Growers/Southern Valley Fruit and Vegetable Inc. engaged in a “pattern or practice of [...]
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Tweet Sooner than expected, the ‘good old days of borrowing from China are over, according to China. Making matters worse, China advances that the dollar needs to be replaced as the Worlds reserve currency. That is a game-changer. Via Reuters By Walter Brandimarte and Melanie Lee NEW YORK/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China bluntly criticized the United [...]
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Tweet Stocks swing as Europe, economy fears spread By DANIEL WAGNER – Athens Banner-Herald Published Friday, August 05, 2011 Don’t look away for too long. You might miss a market rally. Or a plunge. The Dow Jones industrial average is up 80 points after being down as many as 245 points on Friday. It had [...]
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Tweet Print E-mail By Rhonda Cook The Atlanta Journal-Constitution U.S. Rep. John Lewis’ chief of staff received a letter of “reproval” Friday for failing to list $54,000 he was paid for consulting on his financial disclosure reports and income tax returns. According to the letter from the U.S. House Committee on Ethics, first obtained by [...]
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Tweet Please fax and call Congressman Doug Lamborn and ask for his resignation. He said in an interview that President “Obama” was like a “Tar Baby.” This comment is not only insensitive but proof that he, the Republicans, and the Tea Party have no respect for President Obama. We know they respect the Office of [...]
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Tweet 1:07 pm August 3, 2011, by jgalloway Peter Hamby over at CNN is in Tampa with Republican National Committee officials — taking a one-year-out look at site of the party’s 2012 national convention. There’s been the usual jousting with Florida GOP officials over next year’s primary date, but according to CNN, RNC chair Reince [...]
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Tweet Print E-mail By Bill Rankin The Atlanta Journal-Constitution President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated U.S. District Judge Adalberto José Jordán to the federal appeals court in Atlanta. Jordán, who was born in Havana, Cuba, and has served on the federal bench in Miami since 1999, would succeed Judge Susan Black, who has taken senior [...]
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Tweet 9:27 pm August 2, 2011, by jgalloway Some 4,000 employees of the Federal Aviation Administration will remain furloughed through Labor Day, and Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines is catching some of the blame. Rules governing the unionization of the transportation industry is at the bottom of the congressional stalemate. The background from the Washington Post: [...]
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Tweet Print E-mail By David Wickert The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The debate over raising the U.S. debt ceiling might jeopardize the top credit ratings of several metro Atlanta governments, taking a hit on local taxpayers’ pocketbooks. Moody’s Investors Service announced Thursday that it would review and possibly downgrade the Aaa ratings of 162 local governments across [...]
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Tweet 1:34 pm July 29, 2011, by jgalloway Article source: http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2011/07/29/phil-gingrey-swings-to-the-yes-column-on-boehner-plan/?cxntfid=blogs_political_insider_jim_galloway
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