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KC superintendent says school closings are painful
Kansas City School Superintendent John Covington says the decision to close almost half the district’s schools was difficult and painful but “unquestionably the right thing to do.” The Kansas City school board voted 5-4 Wednesday night to close 29 of …
Read More..>>Fire chief Angelia Elgin faces opposition from union …
Angelia Elgin, fire chief of the Northeast Ambulance and Fire Protection District, remembers crawling over a couch while the house was burning down. She couldn’t see, which wasn’t unusual in fire situations. The captain behind her yelled, ‘We …
Read More..>>TAKE THAT STAR OWEN CONFESSES TO AFFAIRS
… a string of affairs behind his wife’s bac k, admitting to a series of drunken one-night stands while on tour with t he band, as well as a secret relationship with accounts manager Neva … She said she had lost her job and was going to lose her …
Read More..>>Chief public defender returns on-call pay
Mark Moran / The Citizens’ Voice Attorney Basil Russin said he considers the matter closed now that he has returned $27,749 in unapproved on-call pay. After Basil Russin returned the more than $27,000 the county deemed he owed for unapproved on-call …
Read More..>>Colo. job losses far steeper in ‘09, revised figures …
Colorado employers last year shed nearly 17,000 more jobs than initially reported, according to revised employment counts released Wednesday. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment reported a loss of 89,375 non-farm jobs last year based on …
Read More..>>Manchin has stern words for state school board
The governor said last fall, he talked with each of his cabinet members and asked what state codes were stopping them from doing their jobs. When the legislative … always come up with something that we’re doing a great job of,” Linger said, but he …
Read More..>>Jobless rate soars in Sioux Falls
… multiple jobs,” Nesiba said. “Women with school-aged children here have high labor force participation rates. It isn’t because this is such a great place to work. It’s because two or three incomes are needed to get by.” Even if some positive job …
Read More..>>Hoodwinking not an option this time around
He appeared to be a solid fit for one of the most coveted high school football coaching jobs in New Jersey. And as he prepared to take charge of the Montclair High Mounties in August of 1991, Len Rivers sounded both optimistic and fully confident …
Read More..>>Empire Center for New York State Policy Posts State …
ALBANY _ Nine hundred state employees made more than Gov. David Paterson’s $179,000 salary in 2009, according to a report by the Empire Center for New York State Policy, a conservative think tank. The center reviewed payroll records of 298,247 New …
Read More..>>Ex-Elections Director Slams Secretary of State
New Mexico’s top elections official has turned the Secretary of State’s office into a den of impropriety, according to AJ Salazar, who resigned Feb. 26 as the Office’s bureau of elections director. In a resignation letter that lays out his …
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