Friday, May 29, 2009

Why Should I Have To Pay for My Employees’ Health Care?
As the national debate on health care reform ramps up, we're going to hear all kinds of claims about what is or is not good for business. http://tiny.cc/healthcare-small-business
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Another Health Care Overhaul Antitrust Laws
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s campaign to cut health costs by $2 trillion over the next decade, announced with fanfare two weeks ago, may have hit another snag: the nation’s antitrust laws. http://tiny.cc/healthcare-anti-trust
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Recession Giveaway! Pfizer Offers Free Drugs to the Jobless
Pfizer is taking a page from the auto industry’s recession playbook with its program to offer free drugs to the unemployed. http://tiny.cc/jobless-free-drugs
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Marion County bus drivers question the accuracy of GPS devices used to track their speed, routes and every move they make.
Two dozen bus drivers jammed the Marion County School Board meeting room on Tuesday to voice concerns about the accuracy of global positioning satellite devices being used to track their speed, routes and every other move they make on the highway. http://tiny.cc/Marion-Bus
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Questions for school board chairman
How could Brevard Public Schools raise taxes in a recession?
http://tiny.cc/Brevard-school-board
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Take Action Stop Starbucks
1. Sign the Memo to Howard Schultz Schultz has said if workers "had faith in me and my motives, they wouldn’t need a union." Help us reach 50,000 signatures, and let's send a clear message to Schultz that corporations should support unionization and the Employee Free Choice Act. http://tiny.cc/stop-stabucks
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Cap-and-Trade Cost Inflation
Republicans puff up the impact of a cap-and-trade program on the average family's energy costs. http://tiny.cc/Cap-and-Trade
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China Is Said to Plan Strict Gas Mileage Rules
HONG KONG — Worried about heavy reliance on imported oil, Chinese officials have drafted automotive fuel economy standards that are even more stringent than those outlined by President Obama last week, Chinese experts with a detailed knowledge of the plans said on Wednesday. http://tiny.cc/China-gas-mileage
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After many past missions, ship taking on reef duty - Florida Keys
KEY WEST -- Long before a Key West dive boat captain embarked on a quest to turn the mothballed USS Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg into an artificial reef, a typhoon that ravaged Guam in the mid-1970s almost did the job. http://tiny.cc/Port-Canaveral-Vandenberg
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U.S. Expected to Own 70% of a Revamped G.M
The latest plan for the troubled automaker, which is expected to file for bankruptcy by Monday, calls for the Treasury Department to receive about 70 percent of a restructured G.M. http://tiny.cc/GM-US
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